Spines looks beyond himself

By Jun Velasco

AT the Wednesday victory party of Governor Amado Espino at the Narciso Ramos hall for his 4th district constituents, we saw a new approach in governance in the province.

Spines, the spitfire’s nickname, wants to serve notice that the office is made for them, the hoi poloi. Being short in height (look who is talking?), the former police officer and captor of Communist bosses Joema Sison, Kumander Dante and Pangasinan outlaw Fred Cabarlo has to ingratiate  himself with most everyone — at this stage that is. He needs everyone’s cooperation, and so he must show them his boundless gratitude for making him top man of this premier province. “Salamat, salamat ed sicayon amin”, he said.

That’s for now, folks, for the time being, during the honeymoon stage when no personnel or casualties are removed yet.  He wants everyone to relax before he literally combs the countryside Mao style to encircle the cities and urban centers to mount his own Pangasinan revolution.

Being small, Spines wil try his best to be a giant among men to defeat his inadequacies, conscious that he be at a legend, and summoning all that he has to deserve the mandate, outgrow himself and not only to look but be the leader he wants himself to be.

The diminutive one knows that with his training as military officer, his glorious conquest of  his  insecurities and  challenges that have hounded him  starting from his colorful studentship to his political odyssey, the Golden Fleece is within reach.

But everyone’s support he needs badly.   Spines, knowing that he has a covenant with destiny, will exhaust everything within his power to be a governor worth the name. He will succeed, why not? Being a student of Sun Tsu, an admirer of Marcos, Fidel Ramos and Joe de Venecia — although fate in the political campaign temporarily beclouded his faith in partisan politics — and his mammoth faith in detailed planning as second- to-none in success and a   Spartan discipline and sun-tanned work ethic, and the expected support of his friends, this small man will be a towering figure in this business called politics.

Wish him all the best of luck.

(For past columns, click http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/category/opinion/think-about-it/)

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