Think about it
Noynoy’s popularity has hit the ceiling too soon
By Jun Velasco
CONGRESSMAN not-yet Jun Esperon is slowly but dramatically inching his way to the sixth district electorate, a feat never before done considering that he has been out of town for years.
He is viewed as an alter ego of Malacañang, just like our Senatoriable Pingkoy Duque whose Liberal Party moorings are being kept alive by his brother Gonzalo Duque, former LP chairman here.
Jun’s phenomenal PR coup in so short a time must have shocked his political foes led by Vice Governor Marlene Agabas and some of the Estrellas so that there is now an incipient move to field instead Eskimo Estrella instead of Agabas against him.
Eskimo is an incumbent congressman of the party-list Abono. Ok pa lang mangampanya itong si Secretary Esperon. It was only yesterday when his name sounded Greek to the 6th district folk.
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Senator Noynoy Aquino’s entry into to the circle of presidentiables should be a tribute to Pinoy land’s dismay with the system.
But there are still many who are glued to our wayward political system. The reason probably is that politics is like opium making one feel everything is all right even he is already in the jaws of death.
Filipinos’ infatuation for the Aquinos lies in their not having forgotten that Ninoy was a victim of the most gruesome crime of the century.
Noynoy’s victory or defeat in the presidential equation in case he runs will showcase the Filipinos’ character. Thinking back of the golden past when heroes came to the succor of the people, we find Ninoy’s words “the Filipino is worth dying for” ringing loudly and clearly.
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The new University of Pangasinan-PHINMA group has a low regard of the Pangasinan community press. Unlike before, it doesn’t patronize the community papers for its activities, achievements, its graduates landing in the board exams and other honors.
The other universities – University of Luzon, Lyceum Northwestern University and Colegio de Dagupan, and others – have maintained the community tradition.
Gone were the days of the late Dr. Blas F. Rayos, also of his son, the late George Rayos, and lately, Cesar T. Duque when they would involve the community through the media in their jubilation whenever UPANG scored highly in the national board exams or received national and international honors.
A university is a part of the community; in fact, it is partly its growth engine. It cannot behave like the ostrich that hides its head in the sand. UPANG-PHINMA’s snob is a violation of the lofty democratic principles founded in the US by Thomas Jefferson and in the Philippines by Jose Rizal and Marcelo H. del Pilar, which say that an enlightened citizenry is sine qua non to national progress.
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Calling from San Francisco, California a couple of weeks back, former Association of Barangay Captains president Alfredo Dawana (he must be here now), said he would launch a program in Dagupan City in collaboration with the city government – CLEAN DAGUPAN!
Is he complaining against the stink and stench in some parts of our rivers? A known nemesis of illegal fishpens, which he has blamed for the filth and fishkill in some parts of our rivers, Alfred said his advocacy would be bigger and more meaningful than that.
He singled out an odious waste system of the Bureau of Jail Management in Bonuan Gueset, although he agreed that Mayor Al and City Administrator have been moving heaven and earth to make Dagupan clean. Alfred says he is with our high school pal, Jimmy Muñoz, who is related to the Bernals and desires to help a newsman out of an eye ailment. Welcome home to both of you.
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