Mercado: Can councilors withstand EYA’s clout and pressure?

March 28, 2011

EASILY the fastest rising personality in Angeles City politics today is Councilor Edu Pamintuan, son of the city mayor.
Edu has been showing chips of the old block – by taking sides boldly on public issues which is characteristic of his activist-father.
Public figures should never stay on the neutral side when what is at stake is the conflict between right and wrong or public interest versus private concern.
I learned that the freshman Councilor spearheaded the work in crafting an ordinance demanding the removal of a controversial road barrier fronting the AUF along MacArthur highway.
Edu must be aware of what he is up against: AUF Chancellor Emmanuel Y. Angeles (EYA) is a powerful man and he will fight tooth and nail to oppose the dismantling of a symbol of his might and influence in the community. Activists called it to barricade.
Supporting Edu are the Vice Mayor, and his colleagues in the Council. Observers said some of them may not be able to withstand the pressure and clout of EYA in turning around the effect of the conditional ordinance. EYA has not been known to retreat from a good fight.
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The skeptical among local residents said if the Council was genuinely serious in asking the removal of the road barrier, it should have passed an ordinance with definitive objectives and permanence.
The dark suspicion was that some of the councilors have left themselves opened to a possible compromise or negotiation of whatever sort. A month-long trial period will open the Council to change order plans and other conditionalities, it was reported.
Well, if the Supreme Court had flip-flopped in its decisions, it is possible that the councilors involved – or some of them anyway – may be “negotiated” to change their decision?
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We wish the AUF well in its future plans to expand its infrastructure building. As a city landmark, the school-hospital requires adjacent land property to build new facilities to make it the largest educational institution in the region.
By selling their property to the school, the lot owners across the street barrier would be helping establish what could be the biggest teaching hospital in Central Luzon.
The AUF has already acquired valuable lots near its campus, including the site of the D & M Motel turned Dayrit Dormitory. It seems logical and practical that the land sites of the already moribund businesses across the road will command a good price for their possessions.
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Former Councilor Angelo “Sonny” Lopez, who goaded the Council to a public hearing, led complainants in airing their opposition and demand to dismantle the road barricade.
I am sorry to say that public opinion in this issue is not on the side of EYA and his school’s. Lopez, in fact, dared the former CDC chief and Ched chairman — the man he calls “untouchable” — in conducting a referendum to find out true public sentiment on the street barrier problem. How about it Doc EYA?
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A former city official determined that with some P1.5 million as lobby money, a miraculous flip-plop in the Sanggunian measure will turn the tide in favor of AUF.
He suspected the reason why the ordinance carries a trial period.
There is always a time for compromise, and for any negotiations under the heaven.
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Councilor Edu has recently figured as the point man in the City Council to order the highly laudable closure of a “toxic” poultry-hog farm in Barangay Cutcut. The young politician knows high-impact issues that could raise his political stock and leadership. He is a work in progress, the father being the astute tutor and Miniang, the mother, as the brilliant architect.
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Long recognized as the highest performer among municipal mayors in Pampanga is Mabalacat Mayor Boking Morales.
His latest project is a huge public market in the making. It will be built in the town’s center, Mabiga, which can be accessed from many directions.
The progressive municipality is expected to be a city soon with all requirements of cityhood complied with. In Atty. IQ’s “Legal Point” TV program, both CSF Mayor Oscar Rodriquez and Angeles Mayor Edpam interposed no objection — rather welcomed with enthusiasm – the impending creation of the City of Mabalacat; and of Lubao, too.
Next to Nanay Baby (the Gov), Mayor Boking receives the most number of visitors daily, who all exit from any of his three known offices with smiling faces.
He has become practically unbeatable with his sustained mass appeal and consistent altruism. He never runs out of small bills all day, even while he keeps his hands inside his own pocket.
Boking’s son Atlas is Dau barangay chairman. Another son, who inherited his mother’s sharp brains, Dwight, serves as his special assistant for external affairs. A La Salle philosophy graduate, Ike wants to teach at the Mabalacat College, a municipality-run school offering three college courses as a way of giving back to the people.
I received reports that town residents wanted the Mayor and his estranged daughter, Marjorie, reconciled. Marjorie was being asked to run for board member and join the pretty SP ladies at the Capitol to promote women’s causes.
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On Wednesday three Filipinos will be executed in China via lethal injection. In sympathy, Mayor Boking will undergo day of fasting and recite the Rosary (the sorrowful mysteries) for the souls of the three. His go-fer Chairman Deng is advised to keep off his boss on that day.

Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/opinion/2011/03/27/mercado-can-councilors-withstand-eya-s-clout-and-pressure-147156

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