Is Bani Mayor Navarro a schemer?

The Mayor of Dagupan City faced off again with the City Council led by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez.

Now, it is about how much fare a commuter in the city shells out to the mostly abusive mulcting tricycle driver one can experience in the Bangus City.

If I am not wrong the Council wants a rider pays P10 for a two-kilometer ride, while Mayor Benjie S. Lim wants a wider kilometer.

Insider at the city hall only laughed at the majority of dads at the council. He told me that after the mayor had vetoed the proposed ordinance, the vice mayor and the majority of the councilors could only just bang their heads at the wall.

He said they could not muster the nine (9) two-third votes to over ride the veto.

He said even the eight (8) votes that they have been using before to ram the throat of the chief executive in his every proposed ordinance could no longer be emulated.

Political observers said one of the solons has been bought already.

They told me the vulnerability of this solon to change horses is his propensity to gamble in the casino.

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The looks of Mayor Marcelo Navarro of Bani, Pangasinan can be deceptive.
He does not look like a former police general who graduated from the elite Philippine Military Academy.
He is a soft-spoken person who projects refinement in life.
But some political spectators told me that when he left Lakas-Kampi Party to join the Liberal Party in the 2010 poll – that got the goat of his mistah Pangasinan Governor Amado T. Espino -
he has already in his mind the congressional post of the 1st District of Pangasinan.
But Lakas-Kampi and the governor’s bet Representative Jesus “Boying” Celeste was so strong than the ten Samsons combined that made Navarro backtrack.
Probably a follower of Sun Tzu and Carl Von Clausewitz he instead seek reelection for the mayoralty of his since-time-immemorial pathetic Navarro family run town Bani.
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Recently, he told media men of the Patrima Press Club in Dagupan City that the Sangguniang Bayan (Town Council) led by Vice Mayor and Atty. Filipina G. Rivera and the five members who composed the “tyrannical” majority conspired by disapproving all his programs.
They said they were not sitting on their jobs.
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One of the lady councilors Gwen Yamamoto said that they even increased the town’s budget for this year by P6 million.
They said if they were not doing anything, as what Navarro wants the media to believe, then those laws and the budgets they passed would not happen
They declared it is unfair for Navarro to accuse them of taking orders from Congressman Celeste in Bolinao and Governor Espino in Lingayen.
“We have our own decisions”, one of them stressed.
Now, Navarro, Vice Mayor Rivera, and the members of the SB all face a recall petition issue.
In-case Navarro lost in this election it means the people in Bani do not like him because they probably disliked his schemes and ineffective leadership.