NO, THE P813-million sports complex just approved by the Angeles City sangguniang panlungsod – at least, by the majority bloc – is not a “white elephant” as the walked-out minority cried.
The Honorable Agapito del Rosario took pains in explaining how the sports complex will even be ‘income generating.”
Del Rosario, so this paper reported Wednesday, said several prominent entities in Metro Manila, including the Philippine Basketball Association, have expressed their intention to avail themselves of the facilities at the planned sports complex.
Wow! Such interest from even the PBA on a sports complex that has neither blueprint nor artist’s perspective, not even a proposed site as yet! Really magically mind blowing! Leave it to this Del Rosario to weave magic from thin air!
Then, the sports complex – again Del Rosario said – could be used for bigtime cock derbies and provide income to the city!
Wow! I give it to this Del Rosario! The way he markets the sports complex, he can very well sell ice to Eskimos.
No cock and bull now, but Del Rosario’s pronouncements remind me of the long-lamented Angeles City character Chito Bacani, perennial mayoralty aspirant and one time pretender to the Philippine presidency itself.
Though Bacani gained fame – infamy, his bitter critics scorned – for his proposal of a fixed P5 one-way fare for all buses plying the Angeles City-Manila line, his national agenda – ever rooted in his home city – was naturally founded on entertainment.
Bacani advocated for the opening of Angeles City to all forms of adult entertainment – from the crassiest smut and lewd shows to the classiest performances – and the banning of the same in all areas outside the city.
This, in keeping with the city’s American past as brothel to GI Joe.
An integral part of Bacani’s Angeles-as-adult-entertainment-capital agenda was the establishment of the country’s, if not the world’s, biggest cockpit complex, with dailybularit or hackfights held in clusters of small arenas, and weekly bigtime derbies in the main hall “bigger than Araneta Coliseum.”
Where to put this colossal cockpit? Why, at Clark Field of course, Bacani was wont to say. As only Clark had the space required for such undertaking of titanic proportions.
Comparisons, ‘tis long clichéd, are always odious. Yes, especially as Bacani’s agenda gains superiority over Del Rosario’s, where cock derbies are concerned at least.
Bacani had a fixed place for his colossal cockpit. Del Rosario has yet to think of one for his, and the city administration’s, sports complex as he himself admitted to broadcaster John Susi over dwRW.
Which led many of those who heard him to think: Not even a thought out site for the sports complex, much less a plan, and already the majority bloc had passed three resolutions for it, to wit:
a) authorizing the mayor to enter into a loan agreement with private or government financing institution for the acquisition of a lot;
b) ratifying the P812.6-million term loan facility agreement between the city government and the Philippine Veterans Bank for the sports complex; and
c) allowing the city government to open a bank account assigning City Administrator Mark Allen Sison and City Treasurer Juliet Quinsaat as signatories in connection with the loan for the facility.
All that in a single city council session, marred by a walk-out at that! What lies beneath this?
“Railroading!” howled Councilor Jay Sangil as he left the session hall.
“The mother of all scams!” cried Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting who also strode out.
“Second rate, trying hard copycat!” Bacani would have hurled at Del Rosario.
With his superior mind, who knows what dreams Bacani would have woven had he half as much of what his inferior Del Rosario is now toying with.
Really odious.
The Honorable Agapito del Rosario took pains in explaining how the sports complex will even be ‘income generating.”
Del Rosario, so this paper reported Wednesday, said several prominent entities in Metro Manila, including the Philippine Basketball Association, have expressed their intention to avail themselves of the facilities at the planned sports complex.
Wow! Such interest from even the PBA on a sports complex that has neither blueprint nor artist’s perspective, not even a proposed site as yet! Really magically mind blowing! Leave it to this Del Rosario to weave magic from thin air!
Then, the sports complex – again Del Rosario said – could be used for bigtime cock derbies and provide income to the city!
Wow! I give it to this Del Rosario! The way he markets the sports complex, he can very well sell ice to Eskimos.
No cock and bull now, but Del Rosario’s pronouncements remind me of the long-lamented Angeles City character Chito Bacani, perennial mayoralty aspirant and one time pretender to the Philippine presidency itself.
Though Bacani gained fame – infamy, his bitter critics scorned – for his proposal of a fixed P5 one-way fare for all buses plying the Angeles City-Manila line, his national agenda – ever rooted in his home city – was naturally founded on entertainment.
Bacani advocated for the opening of Angeles City to all forms of adult entertainment – from the crassiest smut and lewd shows to the classiest performances – and the banning of the same in all areas outside the city.
This, in keeping with the city’s American past as brothel to GI Joe.
An integral part of Bacani’s Angeles-as-adult-entertainment-capital agenda was the establishment of the country’s, if not the world’s, biggest cockpit complex, with dailybularit or hackfights held in clusters of small arenas, and weekly bigtime derbies in the main hall “bigger than Araneta Coliseum.”
Where to put this colossal cockpit? Why, at Clark Field of course, Bacani was wont to say. As only Clark had the space required for such undertaking of titanic proportions.
Comparisons, ‘tis long clichéd, are always odious. Yes, especially as Bacani’s agenda gains superiority over Del Rosario’s, where cock derbies are concerned at least.
Bacani had a fixed place for his colossal cockpit. Del Rosario has yet to think of one for his, and the city administration’s, sports complex as he himself admitted to broadcaster John Susi over dwRW.
Which led many of those who heard him to think: Not even a thought out site for the sports complex, much less a plan, and already the majority bloc had passed three resolutions for it, to wit:
a) authorizing the mayor to enter into a loan agreement with private or government financing institution for the acquisition of a lot;
b) ratifying the P812.6-million term loan facility agreement between the city government and the Philippine Veterans Bank for the sports complex; and
c) allowing the city government to open a bank account assigning City Administrator Mark Allen Sison and City Treasurer Juliet Quinsaat as signatories in connection with the loan for the facility.
All that in a single city council session, marred by a walk-out at that! What lies beneath this?
“Railroading!” howled Councilor Jay Sangil as he left the session hall.
“The mother of all scams!” cried Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting who also strode out.
“Second rate, trying hard copycat!” Bacani would have hurled at Del Rosario.
With his superior mind, who knows what dreams Bacani would have woven had he half as much of what his inferior Del Rosario is now toying with.
Really odious.
