Think about it
We shall rise after the fall
By Jun Velasco
YOU’D get the impression a workaholic Belen Fernandez might collapse under the weight of a mountain of workload she gets every day.
That’s what we saw Friday, and we shot a word at her “mahirap ang mag mayor ha Belen?”
She snapped back, “I love my work, Kuya, I like serving Dagupenos.”
We saw a lesson there on how to lighten a tough job. Love it.
No wonder on Friday morning Belen was a picture of fresh-ness, though, according to Lea Aquino, wala pa silang tulog having just arrived from the wake of Mrs. Azucena Vera Perez, Congresswoman Gina de Venecia’s mother. (Our sincerest condolence and prayers!)
Her staff tells us Belen has become stranger to fatigue, and her only show of irritation if any, they say, is her colossal lack of time to visit the barangays.
Multifarious concerns left, right, back and front all at one time don’t give her a pout or a frown but smile, and assuaging the hoi poloi is her vitamin, we heard, former Judge George Mejia said.
Parang laging nag kakampanya, a visitor said.
Did politics win over business in Dagupan?
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What Dagupenos consider a distinct reward is Belen’s “straight government,” as if to literally follow Pnoy’s legendary path which, alas, has gone berserk in the national scene.
They should really copy Belen, says Oca Arcinue, tycoon Cesar Duque’s adviser, who has blasted a report that Mar Roxas lost to JoJo Binay in Pangasinan in the last elections.
“No, malaki nga ang lamang ni Mar e,” Oca said.
We can indulge in light political tsismis here because the province, Dagupan and the other LGUs are ok… not like in the Senate which is being convulsed by corruption issues.
In the national scene, we are confronted with a too painful clash of views over the worst betrayal of the public trust by, you guess, our own leaders, they whom we thought we could trust.
We could hardly find the word to describe their crime, almost satanic, a gross betrayal of the public trust… beyond redemption already?
Shocking is even an understatement, and we pity the young for having had too much of it too prematurely, their idealism shattered… one wonders how they can recover from it all.
What’s funny or pathetic is that most, if not ALL the accused in the PDAF have become stalwarts of a “DoD (department of denial)” they now look inane and stupid. We were half wishing someone would stand and own up to the charge and say “sorry, lapse of judgment.”
There are no gentlemen out there?
Some like Senator Ping Lacson fear this crushing fall of our leaders has already ruined the Senate.
Nope, no such thing, we believe otherwise, because most Pinoys are fighting to preserve the institution. The exposes are signs of strength, reminiscent of the Philippines as a country of Rizal and our heroes.
We shall rise after the fall.
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NOTES: We join the Vera Perez and De Venecia families in their hour of sorrow on the passing Mrs. Azucena Vera Perez, beloved mother of Congresswoman Gina…. The same with the family of Atty. Alex Villamil, 59, Speaker JdV’s legal counsel; and Dr. Bernard Jimenez, hubby of our high school pal, Dr. Jean Ferrer-Jimenez…. A little birdie texted us to say that he heard over DWIZ, FM station that we are “editorial consultant” (kuno) of that station. Inaccurate report. What’s fact is we, along with sports columnist Jess Garcia, and other innocent souls, were included in a charge sheet that accused publisher Ermin Garcia as principal of libel for a story this columnist was not aware of…..
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