Dagupan City mayor Benjie S. Lim could not hide his displeasure in a press conference he called recently to the members of the City Council who stonewalled his 2011 budget.
He said he wanted to “un-mask” them.
He lamented how the August Body did not act on the P568 million city budget for 2011 that he submitted last middle of October 2010, but acted pronto to the conversion of the swanky hotel site application of the family of Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez.
He deplored that the non-approval of the budget undermines the pay hikes of the city workers, and the 3,700 severely malnourished school kids the city feed twice-a-day.
Smarting words like “I want to un-mask them”, “Misplaced priorities” were used against the unreasonable allies of the vice mayor.
Tsk, tsk, tsk. I could only shake my head listening to the troubles the councilors and the vice mayor have given the mayor.
Their actuation is obviously to wreck his administration by depriving it by P70 million precious sums for his pro-people program.
With it, he slides to the 2010 re-enacted but limited budget of P498 million.
With a re-enacted 2010 budget, the city council succeeded in ripping-off Mayor Lim.
But the SP does not know that they tread on a dangerous ground.
They do not know that the more they rip Lim’s programs, the more they stump their constituents to the abyss of abject help.
Their non-feasance manoeuvring gives bad taste in the mouth. Well meaning members of the media know this. Eventually, their much larger affected constituents would learn their destructive act.
Some of them could not even give a reason why they did not convene a committee to hear the merits of the new budget.
Some of them went to radio and reasoned that they were not able to deliberate because they were busy helping the victory of their allies in the recent village polls.
Did the Omnibus Election prohibits and penalize elective officials like them to interfere in an apolitical village poll?
This is scary. They just exposed their ignorance to the public.
Ignorant people have no place to play politics in a sensitive issue like the budget.
City Council’s shallow destructive politics
This is shallow destructive politics as its best.
They are just there to stonewall without giving a tinge of reason why they stonewall.
With a proper media handling on the part of the Executive, These recalcitrant dads will pay their politics dearly in the bar of public opinion.
The casualty in this power play is not Mayor Lim but the people of Dagupan who would be suffering from inefficient services.
Lim could just go to the radio and TV and say: “These are my pro-people programs. I have 3,700 severely malnourished kids. But I could not feed them because the vice mayor and the councillors want to put me in a bad light. They are bad people harming innocent people like the underpaid government workers and those kids”.
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