Maki Pulido to restore 1st District’s political glory

By Jun Velasco

WHILE our beleaguered country is undergoing another political bath en route to a still debatable electoral process — what with the No El phenomenon refusing to die out — Mother Earth continues to grapple with global warming and climate change that endanger life.

We intimated to our friend Felix Sario, founder -executive director of World Environment Society Inc., that  politicians especially those aspiring for elective posts should be asked to state their positions on environmental degradation which is slowly pushing  life to sure extinction.

With the Mayan calendar pointing to a fixed date that would signal the alignment of the solar system, it should be a matter of grave concern that world leaders including our local political pretenders uppermost took up the survival of humankinds.

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The town of Manaoag is a few kilometers from Dagupan City.

Yes, it’s just a small town once declared by Congress a Pilgrimage City owing to its being a world renown spiritual Mecca just like Lourdes in France.

Many non-Catholics are witnesses to the Shrine’s efficacy as a healing center. Our friend cycling icon Jess Garcia, sports columnist of this paper, would shed tears when recounts his personal benefits from Apo Baket.

One of the sophisticated guys who openly invokes the shrine’s spiritual power is Congressman Joe de Venecia. We have seen him venerate the Lady unabashedly.

We write this to personally authenticate these thousands of miraculous accounts. When we shared our experience with Pareng Jess, he nonchalantly wept. The guy with steely legs becomes a softie when you talk of Apo Baket.

With the advent of Christmas, Pangasinenses pay homage to Apo Baket by answering her call, “Galicayo.” When you are in a bind, ask Her help, she never fails.

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By dint of Divine Providence, a Manaoag youthful physician, Jeremy Rosario, has made it a personal panata to cure the poor in the district who are suffering from cataract.

We saw Ming in action unmindful of the heat of the sun and the rigors of personally attending to poor patients helped by a medical group that included the Urmaza couple.

When we asked him what keeps him going, he said it’s the sight of the near-blind regaining the power of sight. People who have waning sight know how noble Ming’s advocacy is. We teased him if his cataract mission is politically motivated, the hundreds who have been cured from their eye ailments have made him a saint.

Let’s have more of this political gimmick.

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Our Goddaughter television icon Maki Pulido is undoubtedly the First District’s best hope to regain its dominance in the House of Representatives.

The district has sired great legislators the likes of the late Aguedo Agbayani, former Rep. and Gov. Oscar Orbos, former Assemblymen Vic Millora and Jeremias Montemayor.

In our kind of public service, it is not enough that we have candidates who are loved and admired because of their excellent public and even human relations.

They should have the capacity to serve well and excellently the constituency. The daughter of Board Member Alice Pulido and the militant Anda Mayor Nestor Pulido, Maki has a soft heart for the common folk.

Maki’s rise in West Pangasinan’s political skies will restore the lost glory of the district.

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