Dagupan City’s Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez and the tyrannical majority members of the Sanggunian Panlungsod (SP)stonewall again. Their latest stunt was disallowing city mayor Benjie S. Lim to deliver the State of the City Address (SOCA) at the City Astrodome- a bigger venue.
They stated that the mayor can lay his program and delivered it at the third floor of the session hall that is a little bigger than the embalming rooms of some funeral parlours in the city.
“But I want to deliver my SOCA before the 31 barangay captains, the 279 brgy. kagawads, and the thousands of “Anang” and “Anong” of Dagupan,” the mayor probably says in a letter to Vice Mayor.
“No”, retorted by the vice mayor as broadcast by her cabled TV USA.
“It was the decision of the majority of the SP to hold the SOCA inside the session hall,” the Vice Mayor elaborated.
“But former Mayor Al Fernandez delivered his SOCA at the Astrodome when he was the mayor of the city?” asked and cried by a supporter of Mayor Lim who was with me at the top of the coconut tree when we were watching our neighbour’s cable TV.
“That was what our decision for him to deliver his SOCA at the Session Hall and not at the Astrodome,” insisted by Vice Mayor Fernandez.
But many of Mayor Lim’s supporters dread like crazy the miniscule third floor edifice as it would collapse like a house of cards.
Before the eyes of my fortune teller pal in Quiapo, this latest friction between the SP and the mayor is good for the popularity of the latter.
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Has the Vice Mayor and the tyrannical majority at the SP members deceived the people?
An emphatic Mayor Lim told the media last Friday that what the SP has done last Friday was a “disinformation and falsification of a fact” when it put a huge streamer for the public to read.
The mayor’s declaration at his office ensued after he vigorously ordered his staff to pull-out the streamer made by the SP (or was it Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez?) that he would deliver the SOCA at the SP on February 14.
“Streamer na sinasabi na gamit pangalan ko na magdeliver ako ng SOCA sa Sanggunian. Hindi iyon ang sulat na ginawa ko. Malinaw na malinaw na sinasabi nila na mag-dedeliver doon ng SOCA sa SP,” he said.
“That’s lying, that’s misinterpretation. Masama iyon. Bawal!”.
A media man asked the mayor to justify his decision to deliver the SOCA at the Astrodome at the morning of February 14 instead inside of the “phone-booth” sized Session Hall?
The following were his answers:
He said it is analogous with senators going to the House of Representatives because the House of Representatives is bigger than the House of Senate.
He said the SOCA is like a Report to the Nation. It is for the people.
The SP could not accommodate the tens of hundreds of throng that would go there and listen to their mayor.
He could not understand why the SP members insist that he delivered his SOCA at the Session Hall
“Sabi ko nga, e kung pumasok diyan ang 500 na ta-o at nagkaroon ng stampede”, the mayor explained.
For this columnist wannabe (like that wannabe political columnist at Sunday Punch’s Al Mendoza) the poser I kept asking myself:, E kung nag-collapse nga iyung SP building, o nag stampede nga ang mga ta-o doon at naapakan ako ng tumatakbong babae doon na mataba? Anu kaya ang kahihinatnan ko?
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