Think about it
Jun Ebdane, a political politician
By Jun Velasco
AT first glance, Jun Ebdane, erstwhile public works and highways czar, looks like a square peg in a round hole in the presidential equation.
You’d least expect the guy, who has lived in Pangasinan and served as Dagupan police chief and provincial police director, to “play dirty” (politics is a dirty game, right?) He was known to be averse to “double talk,” backslapping, and promising the moon and the stars; he is better known as a serious, no-kidding police officer-turned infrastructure czar.
We directly checked yesterday with him what’s all this running for president is all about, and he, like Solo de Venecia confirming his congressional decision, put it this way:” the presidency or farming.” He was smarting from newspaper sidebars that the presidency is a strategy for a senatorial bid.
He intimated he knows exactly what it is to become a politician having seen its ugly and exciting character but he said it’s precisely because of its controversial character that he is “going for the kill.” “We have to think of what’s best for the country now.”
We have known the guy since we were in our 20’s and we have no doubt about his high credentials.
As to his accessibility by the hoi poloi, his persona would be telling it like it is, with very little if any of the euphemism of politicians. In other words, he is honest and brutally frank, and won’t care hurting anyone who crosses him in a crooked way.
To those who thought’s unusual for an apolitical person to be jumping in the snake pit, he said he finds it exhilarating to do something about the wrong things that were made to look right. He says “I know how to do it.”
He says he has not yet scored in the surveys but “will soon.” He vows not to be a push-over in the presidential politics race. “Matagal pa naman, sa Mayo pa,” he said.
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On Senator Chiz Escudero’s nausea, an overdose of it no doubt, is a good sign.
It shows the young man who just turned 40 early is not callous, if we believe what he said that the cause of his slamming the NPC was that he didn’t want to be dictated upon “by the party.” This has a Quezonian ring, “my loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.”
If that be so, we should count Chiz among the heroes of our time but whose number (alas!) is diminishing at a fast pace. But read on.
The boy was not exactly rich — at least, not a moneyed billionaire — when he launched his bid to become president. Being intelligent, a topnotch UP Diliman law graduate, he knew what a shot at the presidency would be like. That’s why he designed his closeness to the billions of Boss Danding. Which got shot down when nephew Gilbert or Gibo was declared admin presidential candidate. Danding may have a few differences with his sister Merceditas (mother of Gibo) but larger interests would come in that shut out Chiz.
Let’s just say, Chiz was dreaming for a while, now he is fully awake. We believe he will drop the presidential dream. The presidency looks too big for his lean shoulders.
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