Political story telling for 2013/16

NOV. 4-10, 2010

BLOGISTA

By Cha Monforte

Pending the expected coming of the youngest Floirendo sibling – now Kapitan Vincent “Enting” Floirendo as the Federation of the Barangay Councils (FABC) representative to the Davao del Norte Sangguniang Panlalawigan, at present it’s still 7 votes against 6 votes in favor to the executive department, I mean to Gov. RDR. The pro-RDR votes include the SK, PCL and FABC votes.  When Adecor Kapitan Enting Floirendo gets the FABC presidency, the ratio would be reversed in favor to the pro-Floirendo camp. The public know so much of the Del Rosario-Floirendo political competition.

There are talks now that Gov. RDR can only have a slim minority of ABC representatives as even District 1 mayors are putting up the money to have their ABC reps elected and ally them to the Floirendo camp. Holdover FABC  rep Demetrio Maligro has been packing up and SK federation rep Dennis Cafe is nowhere in sight at the Capitol. They would have their last day of work by November 30. The latter would be replaced by one from District 1 per mutual support agreement between former District 1 Cong. Antonio “Tonyboy” Floirendo and Mayor Rey “Chiong Oy” Uy.

But sources say that especially the regulars of the still present 7 and 6 voting boardmembers are having their patience stretched to the limit as they become chopping blocks of so-natural many solicitations from their constituents while they heard of their boardmember counterparts in another province getting magnanimity and understanding from the chief executive via monthly budget support to them from the I.F. (read: intelligence fund) to tend the usual folk solitations and have the regulars brought real unstashed salaries to their homes. The latter boardmembers are dignified of their posts, if the report is true. The former continues to have shrunk wages. That’s the reason why, maybe, ex-mayors who tasted being boardmembers after graduating from their terms as mayors wanted to be back as town mayor after serving a term as BM.  That happened to ex-BM Gregorio “Goryo” Facula of BE Dujali town who unfortunately lost in the last May polls, and maybe that would happen also to current BM and ex-Sto. Tomas Vice Mayor and BM Daniel Lu knowing that the son of last-termer Mayor Max Estela is so junior of him politically in the Lakas-Kampi-CMD fold. But it’s different to Comval BM Cesar Richa of Maco who is visibly waiting until his last term as a BM before he will go politically berserk in batting for a mayoral comeback vs. popular VM Atty. Mario Sapilan. Second-termer BM  Atty. Dexter Lopoz is riding on the same boat with BM Lu the (political) fact that Montevista Mayor Teofista “Pistay” Jauod is on her last term and hence nobody is reelectionist mayor by 2013 polls. The 2000 bar topnotcher might run for mayor in that town known for its famous Diwanag Festival every Christmastime. This is also true to BM Moran Takasan given that Pantukan Mayor JC Celso “Tok” Sarenas is also graduating and the political successor- Vice Mayor Haja Ranain is still young, neophyte although she’s catching up to learn climbing the political rope. But second-termer BM Takasan can ably run for mayor knowing that Pantukan is an old Moroland, once a part of a Sultanate based in Bunawan, Davao City in the distant past.

As to Davao del Norte BM Dr. Fred De Veyra, who is perceived to be a Lakas partyman and at the same time perceived to be a Liberal partyman (oh my gulay! that good automated elections last May Doc!), he said he aims for reelection. But he is ranged against probable BM candidates from the city council: the last-termer councilors now- Kons Atty. Mylene Baura and Kons Tete So, as well as the graduating Vice Mayor Allan Rellon, the he-man who can never become a city mayor with Kons Oyo Uy around, and by this, maybe the most-travelled Kons Atty. Allan Zulueta can run in tandem with Kons Oyo. But the city’s political kingpin Mayor Cee O can also say to Zulueta, “hasta la vista bab(a)y”- that he can’t also run for vice mayor. The last barangay election had political nerves warmed up and speculations heightened while the political teapot percolated and brewed scenarios in that distant 2013. But we’re fast turning 2011 with the Christmastime already around us.

In Comval politics, the political decision benchmark should be the 2016 polls when Gov. Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy, District 2 Cong. Rommel “Bobong Amatong and a lot of mayors would be graduating from their third terms. Last-termer Vice Gov. Ramil Gentugaya has three good 2013 options now (he better have to open than hide this now): run against reelectionist Congresswoman Maricar Zamora-Apsay, run against kapitan Janet Diel (sister of graduating Mayor Manuel “Jun-jun” Brillantes) for Monkayo mayor, or take a political forlough and run for gov only by 2016 (he can’t have a winnable 2013 run  vs. a politically entrenched Gov. Uy,  but Ramil’s forlough is also politically unsound since it means the large forgetting of him by the electorate who have collective amnesia). Now Mr. Citizen Manuel “Way Kurat” Zamora is vindicated of his decision last May polls of not running for any other higher post and instead he concentrated for the winning campaign of now Congresswoman Maricar. Way Kurat has a good political acumen out from his being a seasoned politician since the old, big Davao Province. If Cong. Maricar manages to be so well-political entrenched in her current first term, and if VG Ramil and Mayor Brillantes won’t fight Maricar for Congress, ex-Cong. Way Kurat can possibly run for vice governor by 2013 polls (but then there’s this possible running for VG  by present senior BM Lito Brillantes while ex- Gov. Joecab was also heard to be interested to run for VG, and ex-Cong. Way Kurat has reportedly applied to Uswag Comval group for the VG post already). The vacancy for governorship by 2016 will be ripped wide open for bids of Cong. Amatong and influential Laak Mayor Rey Navarro, who would by then also end his third term, or of Lito Brillantes/ Way Kurat/Joecab -whoever of them sits as VG if victorious by 2013 polls. We also heard of Pantukan Mayor Tok Sarenas planning to run for gov by 2013. But maybe he won’t as he lacks allies provincewide. The faraway 2016 gubernatorial contest is riotous one. For 2013 polls, the way to continued political unity  of Uswag Comval aggrupation and so that no monkey wrench is thrown to the District 1 kamada of political stalwarts is for VG Ramil to only run for boardmember like when ex-Cong. Arrel Olano was first egged out to run as BM after graduating his last term (he first nodded and all of the sudden he ran for city mayor following Cong. Anton Lagdameo’s move of ignoring Olano’s right to pick candidates in District 1 last May polls), and for both Way Kurat and senior BM Lito Brillantes not to take a crack for vice gubernatorial bid  while Mayor Jun-jun Brillantes won’t also contest Cong. Maricar’s reelection bid. On the otherhand, VG Ramil can plead that he be supported in his congressional bid by 2013 since there’s this political debt of gratitude of the Uswag Comval group to him for not wrecking havoc to the political unification preluding the May 2010 polls when he did not pursue running against now Cong. Maricar. By 2016 polls, Gov. Chiongkee has easy prospect of running for the District 2 congressional post since ex-Gov. Joecab Caballero seems to have become already a political has been with his two defeats in congressional bids. But Joecab’s defeats are modestly compensated by the return of his daughter Kris Caballero to the Comval SP.   At this writing, I still don’t know if the good Gov. Chiongkee Uy can already run for congressman without prohibition since during the 1998 polls Cong. Prospero Amatong filed a disqualification case against him for allegedly not being a natural born Filipino citizen. In that polls, Uy had only a narrow margin of over 1,000 votes from victorious Amatong’s total votes in their congressional duel. That time the Gov. Chiongkee was an ally of ex-Gov. Joecab. But despite Amatong’s disqualification case, Gov. Chiongkee proceeded in his running giving a big implication that he can as well run for congress by 2016 when he ends his 3rd term. If not, he might as well choose who among the 2013 vice gubernatorial potentials are soft-hearted and content to serving only one gubernatorial term by 2016, and give him back the gubernatorship or allow him an easy gubernatorial comeback by 2019.

Really, this is just political story telling about scenarios in still faraway times. (For comments, e-mail: chamonforte@yahoo.com)

 

 

 

 

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OPINION: Way K’s realpolitik

BLOGISTA
By Cha Monforte

There are now signs and the inevitable came out: it was no other than Boardmember Maricar Zamora-Apsay held at bay by a mix of persons in the media to talk about politics last Sunday amid the ongoing 58th birthday celebration of his father, Cong. Way Kurat at their known Octagon farm park in Monkayo.

“The equity of the incumbent applies only to the reelectionists of the same position,” she said in answering the earlier postulation that Vice Gov. Ramil Gentugaya is most senior among Lakas partymen to claim for the coveted title of becoming the administration standard bearer for the District 1 congressional post by 2010.

There were no ifs, nor buts for the BM Maricar on this issue. The post that sooner his father would be leaving is really an open one, vouched even by an earlier opinion of Lakas-CMD regional president, Davao del Norte Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario.

So it’s the party that would really decide who from the front-running congressional wannabes- BM Maricar and VG Ramil would be picked up. There seems no more District 1 bidders for the post. Lito Brillantes, for one, is outsider, not incumbent. As of this writing, Monkayo Mayor Manuel Brillantes, then with Liberal party (Atienza wing) is smoking a peace pipe with Way Kurat and Lakas-CMD when he took oath as a party member two weeks ago.

We heard from buzz that VG Ramil has stockpiled financial logistics when he became a married man last Oct 18. “If it’s Maricar, he (Ramil) would either stay or go out from the party,” said Cong. Way Kurat in an imprompto presscon amid his birthday bash. “But if it’s Ramil… ah we will not talk about it as it will never happen anyway,” he added as he turned quizzical.

We’ve learned also that BM Maricar appears to be already groomed as the Lakas-CMD national directorate’s pick. She just joined in the Tagbilaran leadership training, all at the national party’s expense. There, BM Maricar along with 40 other Lakas-CMD potential standard bearers were accordingly trained on “how to’s” rudiments including how to win in the coming polls. By the end of this month, she’ll again join in another Lakas-CMD leadership training for women party leaders sponsored by the Lakas-CMD national directorate.

We’ve also learned that Cong. Way Kurat was just testing who his loyalists really are when he floated he would be running as Compostela mayor. “Atik ra to,” he announced before over a thousand of birthday well-wishers.

He said he is due to retire from politics two years from now to be the Lakas-CMD campaign manager, as Gob. Uy listened intently. In the presscon, he said he don’t want also to suffer the same fate of Caballeros and Palma Gils in Davao Oriental, who were all defeated for running simultaneously in two top positions. Well, we knew of ex-Gob. Joecab and ex-BM Kris.

Meantime, Konsehal Dolfo Ang of Compostela enthused that the election is still far and “many things would still happen”, when referred of the no Way Kurat for mayor scenario in his town. Ang was reported to be vying for mayoral post. But he just don’t believe yet of the scenario.

With these, we see that Way Kurat’s plan of becoming a Lakas-CMD campaign manager in the province is one big enigma. While it’s one caveat for ensure Maricar’s pick (for who else could not vote against a scene-stealing and stage-propa veteran politician becoming the admin campaign manager?), a realpolitik act, but the spectacle of seeing Way K become a plain citizen again after the May 2010 elections doesn’t sit well among his loyalists. Maybe he’ll also take a crack for the vice gubernatorial post, and bargain for it, too, or the much-touted Comval unity will come crashing down in smithereens. (For online edition, visit my blog at: http://cha4t.wordpress.com, for comments and reactions, e-mail: chamonforte@yahoo.com, or ruralurbanews@yahoo.com)

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NEWS: Comval officials troop under Lakas-CMD

Oathtaking affair silent on Lakas-Kampi merger

nov 7

Almost all of the incumbent municipal officials and barangay captains swore in
and affirmed as members of the administration’s Lakas-Christian Muslim
Democrats (Lakas-CMD) yesterday morning in a mass oathtaking and affirmation rite held at Assumption of Nabunturan Gym in the capital town of Compostela Valley.

Comval officials lead in the oathtaking and affirmation rite of Lakas-CMD Thursday at ACN Gym in Nabunturan capital town. Almost all municipal officials and barangay captains in the province swear in for the administration party. Third from left is 1st District Cong. Manuel "Way Kurat" Zamora and at his right is Lakas-CMD regional chairman Davao del Norte Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario, and Comval provincial elder and Compostela Valley's father former Cong. Prospero Amatong (Rural Urban News photo/cha monforte)

From left: Monkayo Mayor Manuel "Junjun" Brillantes, Boardmember Dexter Lopoz, Pantukan Mayor Celso Sarenas and Mabini Mayor Amir Muñoz and other officials swear in and affirm as members of Lakas-CMD party in Compostela Valley (Rural Urban News photo/cha monforte)

Lakas-CMD provincial chairman Governor Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy said in
his keynote speech after the oathtaking and affirmation of some 361 new and old
Lakas-CMD members urged members of what appears as now a mammoth monolithic administration party in the province “to set aside personal
interests” in keeping a “real political unity” in the province .

He assured that under the Lakas-CMD “no single party mate will be left
behind unattended”.

Lakas-CMD regional chairman Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario, on the other hand, rallied new and old Lakas-CMD members to become models and examples “to
convince the poor  to make the same unity” as he witnessed a unity of
municipal and barangay officials yesterday.

Stressing on the importance of a party and unity in the progress of the
country, he expressed hope that the Lakas-CMD party would remain strong in the
county under the leadership of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

“I am confident for the victory of the Lakas-CMD national candidates as
well as the local candidates in 2010,” he said.

The Davao del Norte governor was silent on the merger of Lakas and Kampi parties where he and Speaker Prospero Nograles came to be a leading figures in a regional merger held at Davao City last June.

Neither other provincial party stalwarts talked nor explained of the merger yesterday.

The province in the last 2007 polls became a hotly contested political arena in a  feverish electoral contest between the two pro-administration parties, Lakas-CMD and Kampi, with former Gov. Jose Caballero riding on Kampi party in his failed congressional bid in the second district, and his former allies current Monkayo Manuel “Junjun” Brillantes and now Maragusan Mayor Cesar Colina Sr rowing in the first district via the minority but a pro-administration Liberal party and Kampi, respectively.

Yesterday, Brillantes and Colina mayors swore to become members of Lakas-CMD along with the rest of the Lakas reaffirmist town mayors and boardmembers.

Boardmembers Armando Codilla and Dexter Lopoz, then with Kampi, and Boardmember Neri Barte of Brillantes’ Liberal party, also swore in.

The “father of the province”, as what emcee Boardmember Maricar
Zamora-Apsay called to former Cong. Prospero Amatong, the provincial Lakas-CMD
chairman emeritus, also gave his message of asking the audience for a
pause whether yesterday’s affair was for real unity. He emphasized that real unity
comes with the “character and substance” in the leadership of the Lakas-CMD members and aims of giving service for the people.

District 1 Congressman Manuel “Way Kurat” Zamora yesterday became a
noted spectacle following serious messages of the provincial party stalwarts
when he cracked  a new Way Kurat joke of “inviting all the people of the
world to go to Monkayo” this coming November 16 for the birthday of a
letter writer that ended up to be him.

He caused the audience to stand up for his own version of the known Willie
Revillame’s hep-hep hurray standuppper to their loud awakened cheers.

District 2 Cong. Rommel Amatong earlier made his welcome remarks.

In an interview, barangay captain Wahidon Takasan of Matiao, Pantukan, however however expressed skepticism that the attained political unity could not be
threatened by partymates themselves fighting against each others when election time comes.

“Karon uban pa apan pag-abot na sa panahon bisag way oposisyon basig mag-unay na tungod kay normal gyud nga may ambisyon. Unsay sulbad ani?,” he said.

His brother Boardmember Moran Takasan also said: “Seguro uban pa ta karon kay layo pa, pero basig pag-abot sa panahon di na”.

He said that the prospect could not be impossible saying that people in fact always change daily. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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OPINION: The agreement

BLOGISTA
By Cha Monforte

Now it can be told that Compostela Valley Vice Gov. Ramil Gentugaya had earlier pledged not to run for Congress. I finally chanced upon Cong. Manuel “Way Kurat” Zamora at his base in Compostela town the other day and I got what I’ve long wished from him – to interview him tete-a-tete. To me, it was one of the rarest so I threw questions or lose him again.

There I got news right from the horses’ mouth, and what struck me was his information that VG Ramil, Gov. Chiongkee Uy, Boardmember Maricar and Cong. Way Kurat had already forged a prior agreement to avoid wrangling in the future and this is for VG Ramil to seek for his reelection as vice gov and for BM Maricar to run for the congressional post that his father is finishing to serve until 2010.

“That was the day after we took our oath of office,” Cong. Way Kurat recalled. And “I’ll stick to that (agreement),” he added.

I surfed the net when was really that, and lo, the joint oathtaking of newly elected Comval officials was June 30, 2007 (the twilight sky on that festive day was so colorful compliments of the fireworks display heralding the new administration themed in by Uswag Comval slogan). And so, the Ramil-Maricar-Chiongkee-Way Kurat agreement must be July 1, 2007. (Sorry, in my rush of writing a so good news the other day at an internet café in the interior Compostela town I missed to include the date, especially that a paying time is running against me).

When I reached his base at Compostela, Comval’s most popular politician Way Kurat, for ostensibly putting the province in the country’s map by his down-to-earth, newsworthy scenes and brims, was there in shorts and shirts calling up the Singapore embassy chancellor in Manila to help a distressed Comvalenya from Barangay Ngan, Compostela who was earlier imprisoned there but who could no longer be contacted by her relatives. The Singaporean official Cong. Way Kurat called as “my friend” pledged to help.

Things are revealing now particularly when reports were heard for sometime  that the governor had confided to several Lakas partymates and allies about his difficulties in walking in a tightrope just to keep the Comval unity surging given that he had already a prior commitment to BM Maricar. Ostensibly, this must be the continuation of the Cong. Way Kurat’s revelation that the governor has already “said his piece” and “Maricar is his choice”.

Cong. Way Kurat must have been optimistic still that the fortified Lakas-CMD would remain united with a powerhouse unity slate and that for the present running tiff between VG Ramil and BM Maricar over his post to end.  “The solution was already made,” he said referring to that July 1, 2007 agreement. He quipped that after I offered a scenario of BM Maricar running for the vice governor’s post and him for Compostela mayoral post, to keep the peace. It’s no-no, but for a win-win, VG Ramil must stick to the agreement.

But verily, Cong. Way Kurat is quite confident that VG Ramil will honor the agreement. “He is a good gentleman who has a word of honor… as well as the governor.” He knew VG Ramil too much, “from a good boy to a good man ….to a good politician and good leader in the province.”

With modesty, the congressman said that he molded VG Ramil in his political career starting when he was still the SK federation honcho after BM Maricar’s SK stint in the erstwhile undivided Davao del Norte. No wonder that the VG in his 2004 inaugural speech at Nabunturan Compre gym singled out and paid tribute to Way K with words as “my idol, my mentor”. That was the time when Gob. CK was first elected as a BM allied with ex-Gob. Joecab who defeated a token gubernatorial bet Trino Tirol.

From that interview, I also learned that the congressman and Monkayo Mayor Manuel “Junjun” Brillantes have no running feud between them and that they are seeing eye to eye and with a twosome of them leveling off . And that’s a far cry compared to the vice governor talking to the mayor only with a group, he said. But maybe the congressman is referring to the Friday Club at Marco. BM Maricar, too, is accordingly in constant communication with the mayor’s brother Lito and sister Olaycon Kapitana, Diel. I stand too apprised and updated now, thanks, but for a couple of weeks or so, I’ll wait for VG’s statement after the honeymoon with his beauteous, intelligent, Unilab executive better half- Joanna Ang-Gentugaya.

BLOGBUZZ: We still have to hear news after the scheduled meeting of the provincial directorate of Lakas-CMD in  Comval. Its chair is the governor, being the provncial Lakas chairman, with the other officers: vice chair- District 2 Cong. Rommel “Bobong” Amatong, secretary- BM Maricar, treasurer- VG Ramil, and the chairmen of the 5 committees held by Cong. Way K, Compostela Mayor Rey Castillo, New Bataan Mayor Lorenzo “Boy” Balbin, Nabunturan Mayor Macario “Dodong” Humol,    and Laak Mayor Rey “Reynab” Navarro, and provincial elder Pros Amatong as a member emeritus with also 1 vote like the rest…. Heard from the rounds after the NBI raid on the suspected culprit establishment where the UM Tagum sex scandal was camcorded. A lass just informed me, “Kuya di man to sex toy penis sa sex scandal nga na-mention nimo sa imong series of news ato, but a plastic container of Her Bench lotion.” I thought that Bench is only known of selling branded shirts and polos. For that, Bench company should better review the forms of its product containers at the risk of selling unwanted objects that someone may hold dear. (For online edition, visit my blog at: http://cha4t.wordpress.com, email: ruralurbanews@yahoo.com, or chamonforte@yahoo.com)

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NEWS: LP to bolt Comval unity? “Not true”- Mayor Brillantes

sept 30

Monkayo Mayor Manuel “Junjun” Brillantes yesterday denied reports that he and his political supporters under the Liberal Party (Atienza wing) are planning to bolt from the political unity that Gov. Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy keeps on gripping to avoid it from being disintegrated in the midst of the divisive positioning moves of some Lakas members.

“Dili tinoud,” Brillantes said in a text message even as reports said that he is expected to convene today a party caucus to plan out in preparation for the 2010 elections.

Sources said that Brillantes supporters might bargain for “political concessions” from Uy.

Already, reports said that the positioning moves between Vice Gov. Ramil Gentugaya and Boardmember Maricar Zamora-Apsay, who both earlier confirmed to be running for the  congressional post, have begun to heighten with the reported formation of their respective “shadow slates” in case of Lakas break up in District 1.

The report on “shadow slates” had Boardmember Paul Galicia of Compostela coming to a pique before last Wednesday’s session at the provincial Capitol when Boardmember Moran Takasan of Pantukan rhyme in a banter about a “shadow government” which Galicia felt to be alluded to. Partymates Galicia and Takasan had reportedly engaged in brief exchange of words.

In the report, Galicia was included to belong to Apsay’s “shadow slate”.
The “shadow slates” have divided incumbent boardmembers and mayors in the district.

In the 2007 polls, Brillantes organized municipal slates under the LP in all towns in District and tied up with provincial Kampi party chaired by former Gov. Jose “Joecab” Caballero in support to the congressional bid of his brother Lito against the current Cong. Manuel “Way Kurat” Zamora.

At present, Brillantes and Zamora could not still see eye to eye despite the much-touted Comval unity while Brillantes and Uy have been reported to be constantly communicating to each other, sources said.

The Comval unity has often been hailed by the Uy administration as unprecedented following the reconciliation last year of Uy and Brillantes after long years of economic, political and personal feud.

Provincial elder Prospero Amatong, who belonged as one of the leading figure of Comval unity, earlier described it as “a miracle”.

The unity consists of all provincial officials, two congressmen and all the 11 mayors in the province.

At present, Gov. Uy is the provincial chairman of the administration Lakas party, which dominated in the victory of local and provincial officials during the last polls.

Only the current Maragusan Mayor Cesar Colina survived from Kampi from Lakas onslaught. Brillantes LP, though losing in mayoral bids in the district, has many councilors winning for their posts in the last polls. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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