YES, THE crusade continues. But where are the crusaders?
Reverend Governor Eddie T. Panlilio atop the white steed of good governance took the Pampanga Capitol at the head of his army of moral crusaders.
It was these crusaders that formed the phalanx that flanked the governor against all perceived attacks from their perceived evils.
Hence, when the sangguniang panlalawigan overrode the veto of the governor on Ordinance 176 – sponsored by the Pampanga Mayors League for the equitable distribution of the revenues from quarry operations – the call to arms was raised, and the battle joined.
“For the love of their governor and all his work, the Kapampangan Marangal Inc. (KMI), Abak na Balen (AnB), Pampanga Association of Non-Government organizations (PANGO), and the Save Pampanga Movement have started their petition-signing for a local initiative to repeal Ordinance 176.” So we wrote here on October 29, 2007.
Only a month after though, nothing more was heard of that petition signing. The battle over Ordinance 176 having shifted to the legal arena.
Then there was the Kapampangan Coalition Inc. (KCI) which we derided – most erroneously cried its convenor, the Rev. Fr. Resty Lumanlan – as Panlilio’s “company union.”
The KCI’s identification with Panlilio was buttressed by the presence under its wings of the KMI. AnB, PANGO. SPM, among others; the KCI trustees, notably Myrna Bituin, Agnes Romero and Tess Guanzon, being big contributors to Panlilio’s gubernatorial campaign.
When the recall movement against Panlilio started to gain ground, the camp of the embattled governor unleashed Kasaup, yet another group that wormed itself out of the Capitol woodwork.
Promising the “mother of all rallies” to smother the recall movement in San Luis, Pampanga in mid-September 2008, Kasaup delivered a children’s party of slightly over a dozen attendees. A photograph of that preserved for posterity on page 271 of my book Reverend Governor: A chronicle of irreverence.
Recently, with the Supreme Court decreeing the recount of the Pampanga vote in 2007, came out of Panlilio’s closet Kapampangan Kontra Recount (K2R).
But where are the KCI, KMI, AnB, PANGO, SPM? Gone on to some other crusades?
So why is the K2R led by one Arnel Manliclic all by its lonesome in raising Panlilio’s banner? Hey, come to think of it, isn’t this Manliclic the same Kasaup character that made the “mother of all rallies” humbug?
Anyways, K2R’s accomplishment so far was managing to gather a hundred folk at a rally at the San Fernando cathedral. No mother, but a “mistress of all rallies” there, eh, Manliclic?
The sore lack of support from the people for Panlilio manifests the abject misery among his remaining followers.
“Isadsad taya ing krusada para king mayap a pamaggobyerno at pakipamemalen (Onward with the crusade for good governance and resconsible citizenship).” So K2R inscribed on its letterhead
So the crusade continues. But not for K2R’s chosen cause: Panlilio.
As the respected Father Lumanlan said at the time of the Balas boys rally last year, “Governor Panlilio is not the cruzada.”
A revelation that was not lost to Panlilio’s own confidence team and close-in staff of Atty. Aiza Velez, Vince Dizon, Archie Reyes, Tess Briones, Dalsa Hizon, Bel katigbak, Marylou Tolentino, Rochelle Aguilar, Rop Syquia, Rommel de Jesus, Chris Ocampo and others who resigned their Capitol posts.
So with the good father, along with his confederates in the KCI, KMI, et al, the crusade continues. Not for Panlilio’s hold onto the Capitol, But for the deliverance of the Kapampangan. Yes, there is a chasm of a difference separating these two causes.
Reverend Governor Eddie T. Panlilio atop the white steed of good governance took the Pampanga Capitol at the head of his army of moral crusaders.
It was these crusaders that formed the phalanx that flanked the governor against all perceived attacks from their perceived evils.
Hence, when the sangguniang panlalawigan overrode the veto of the governor on Ordinance 176 – sponsored by the Pampanga Mayors League for the equitable distribution of the revenues from quarry operations – the call to arms was raised, and the battle joined.
“For the love of their governor and all his work, the Kapampangan Marangal Inc. (KMI), Abak na Balen (AnB), Pampanga Association of Non-Government organizations (PANGO), and the Save Pampanga Movement have started their petition-signing for a local initiative to repeal Ordinance 176.” So we wrote here on October 29, 2007.
Only a month after though, nothing more was heard of that petition signing. The battle over Ordinance 176 having shifted to the legal arena.
Then there was the Kapampangan Coalition Inc. (KCI) which we derided – most erroneously cried its convenor, the Rev. Fr. Resty Lumanlan – as Panlilio’s “company union.”
The KCI’s identification with Panlilio was buttressed by the presence under its wings of the KMI. AnB, PANGO. SPM, among others; the KCI trustees, notably Myrna Bituin, Agnes Romero and Tess Guanzon, being big contributors to Panlilio’s gubernatorial campaign.
When the recall movement against Panlilio started to gain ground, the camp of the embattled governor unleashed Kasaup, yet another group that wormed itself out of the Capitol woodwork.
Promising the “mother of all rallies” to smother the recall movement in San Luis, Pampanga in mid-September 2008, Kasaup delivered a children’s party of slightly over a dozen attendees. A photograph of that preserved for posterity on page 271 of my book Reverend Governor: A chronicle of irreverence.
Recently, with the Supreme Court decreeing the recount of the Pampanga vote in 2007, came out of Panlilio’s closet Kapampangan Kontra Recount (K2R).
But where are the KCI, KMI, AnB, PANGO, SPM? Gone on to some other crusades?
So why is the K2R led by one Arnel Manliclic all by its lonesome in raising Panlilio’s banner? Hey, come to think of it, isn’t this Manliclic the same Kasaup character that made the “mother of all rallies” humbug?
Anyways, K2R’s accomplishment so far was managing to gather a hundred folk at a rally at the San Fernando cathedral. No mother, but a “mistress of all rallies” there, eh, Manliclic?
The sore lack of support from the people for Panlilio manifests the abject misery among his remaining followers.
“Isadsad taya ing krusada para king mayap a pamaggobyerno at pakipamemalen (Onward with the crusade for good governance and resconsible citizenship).” So K2R inscribed on its letterhead
So the crusade continues. But not for K2R’s chosen cause: Panlilio.
As the respected Father Lumanlan said at the time of the Balas boys rally last year, “Governor Panlilio is not the cruzada.”
A revelation that was not lost to Panlilio’s own confidence team and close-in staff of Atty. Aiza Velez, Vince Dizon, Archie Reyes, Tess Briones, Dalsa Hizon, Bel katigbak, Marylou Tolentino, Rochelle Aguilar, Rop Syquia, Rommel de Jesus, Chris Ocampo and others who resigned their Capitol posts.
So with the good father, along with his confederates in the KCI, KMI, et al, the crusade continues. Not for Panlilio’s hold onto the Capitol, But for the deliverance of the Kapampangan. Yes, there is a chasm of a difference separating these two causes.
