WITH still 12 days before the official campaign period for local elections, our communities are already riddled with posters. They are glued on walls, tied around electric posts, hung on cable wires and nailed to trees.

And because there are no rules regulating use of posters until campaign officially starts, our local candidates have been scrambling for any empty space where they can have their photoshopped and filtered faces plastered. It doesn’t bother them one bit that their posters are defacing and hurting the environment.

We refer to their indifference to the importance that trees play in our communities.

It doesn’t seem bother most candidates that they are hurting the trees when their faces are nailed to the trees’ trunks and branches. An upright candidate does not need a law to tell him/her that nailing their posters on trees is not right.

So, to the thoughtless, insensitive, self-centered candidates who have no qualms about having their posters nailed to trees, here’s a message from the community that host the trees:

“Remember this face. It belongs to a person who has
no respect for our environment. It should not be trusted.

Tandaan ang mukhang ito kasi ito ang toang walang pag galang
at respeto sa aming kapligiran. Hindi siya dapat pagkatiwalaan.

If the detestable poster is not removed a week from the time you see it, then it is a reason not to vote for him/her.

Remulla rebuked

NOT only irresponsible but, more tellingly, reprehensible. This refers to Boying Remulla’s accusation that the 45,000 or so crowd that attended Vice President Leni Robredo’s presidential campaign rally in Cavite last week were each paid P450 to P500. How can Remulla resort to such mudslinging, stooping too low as to result into denigrating his own character—if not his reputation? If he were some lunatic just out of the mental hospital, he could be easily forgiven—dismissed as that: a lunatic forever. But no. He’s an incumbent representative of Cavite so that, in essence, his recklessness utterly insulted his own constituents. He degraded not only himself but his lofty position, too. His province mates do not deserve such an unprovoked carelessness from their leader. He owes Robredo an apology big time as his action invites public rebuke. It sucks.

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