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By Cha Monforte
The merger of Lakas and Kampi starting in Davao Region Wednesday at
Apo View Hotel in the city has reported arms-twisting backroom deals which put into smithereens whatever is left for the old Kampi. The talk was that a big-time provincial politician was acting a backroom bully to Kampi winners who attended the last merger convention. He went into arms-twisting of Kampi councilors and boardmembers to abandon whatever loyalty left in their hearts to the losing Kampi chairmen who were opposing tooth-and-nail to the Lakas winners who are now at the helm in power. That would mean them becoming real turncoats to Lakas and making pretenses in the name of Kampi.
The bully was said to be doing his bullying as he prevented Kampi politicians from entering the convention hall before the merger was declared historic by the presidential spokesman. His act was not expected of him for his honored provincial if not regional stature, or perhaps he did it just to be consistent to the maneuverings he made through the years in interregnum in putting himself as a provincial, regional sycophant to whoever becomes President in the country and thus maintains his being a kingmaker and protector of vast business interest.
We still don’t know if the bully did bully the provincial and municipal winners from Kampi-Davao Oriental which won so strong after a neck-cutting electoral skirmish against Lakas.
With his bullying, it would seem now that the merger is a mere merger of Lakas winners and Kampi turncoats as the Kampi and Lakas losers of the last polls are ostensibly left behind by the policy of the equity of the incumbents. Stated otherwise, provincial and municipal losers, who are still bankable in the coming 2010 elections, are prodded now to jumpship to the opposition than wait and waive their winnability to be included in the 2010 official administration slate.
Nevertheless, the Apo View bullying is just fine. It identifies the first turncoats and the turncoats who will later abandon the administration ship when 2010 electoral season becomes feverish. By clearly demarcating the winners and having their loyalties pledged to the Lakas bosses so the bully could crack a real party whip, then the opposition is given a good chance of harvesting formidable and still winnable politicians and community leaders who will make hues and cries over lackluster performance and corruption of incumbents in a time of economic crisis.
BLOGBITS: Lakas and Kampi jerjer! A joke perfunctorily came during the recent Lakas-Kampi merger affair. A throng of politicians did not say amen when someone in the podium said “witness the historic merger of Lakas and Kampi”. In response the throng automatically echoed – the Lakas and Kampi jerjer!…. Uwag Comval! Another joke roams in town. Uswag Comval is the battlecry of Lakas slate that defeated then Gob. Joecab, his daughter Kris and congressional candidate Lito Brillantes. After the polls, during the oathtaking of today’s incumbents, it was made known that Uswag is actually an acronym and it stands for Uy, Sarmiento, Way Kurat, Amatong and Gentugaya. Comes now the report that Roger Sarmiento, who has been absent in Comval politics for over seven years now, is eyeing to reclaim his congressional post from Way Kurat. But Sarmiento will be shunted out by the Lakas-Kampi policy of the equity of incumbents as Vice Gov. Ramil Gentugaya and Way Kurat’s daughter Boardmember Maricar Apsay are also eyeing for the same post. When Sarmiento goes to the opposition, then the winning battlecry is left without S. It’s you who know how to read it…. LBC hari ng padala has been reportedly going to the barangays delivering messages about the congressional bid of Ramil. They’re Ramil couriers. LBC stands here for Lopoz, Barte and Codilla, Comval boardmembers, the Three Mosquiteers in the first district…. The hammer. Cong. Way Kurat was reportedly absent during Wednesday’s Lakas-Kampi merger affair. We don’t know the reason. If RMS makes a comeback, will Way Kurat return the hammer he long borrowed from RMS? The congressman, a Sarmiento creation, was once quoted publicly that like a carpenter who borrows a hammer from his fellow carpenter, he would readily return the hammer anytime the owner asks for it. Gee, it’s not yet asking time for now…. Nabunturan wags against the town’s bond flotation have this to say: if the bond float which is grossly disadvantageous to the government so proceeds, the 9 signatories in the majority of the sanggunian, the vice mayor and mayor might get suspended from a case that is already being readied by the town’s oppositors. Then the joke is: only two councilors would be left standing. One will act as the mayor, the other as vice mayor. (For online edition, visit my blog at: http://cha4t.wordpress.com)
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