“THEY ARE not in my league. I don’t even think about them.”
Thus incumbent Rep. Tarzan Lazatin reduced the two pretenders to the 1st congressional district seat to a league of their own.
Cong Tarzan was fielding a question from Cris Navarro of Sun-Star Pampanga on who between Chito Bacani and Ares Yabut he considered would give him a good fight.
Tarzan, the reigning heavyweight champion as it were, sneering at flyweight contenders wanting to get into the ring with him there. So we fancy…
In the red corner, claiming a Pacman punch to knock out corruption, presenting Fighting Bacani-ni-ni-ni!
In the blue corner, claiming youth and the endorsement of a contactor who was knocked down in the Angeles City council for allegedly cornering all infrastructure projects in the city, presenting Flash Yabut-but-but-but!
Let’s get ready to rumble-ble-ble!
But not, apparently, in Tarzan’s jungle where he is king supreme. Bacani and Yabut better find a ring of their own, a three-ring circus, Tarzan could have scoffed.
“I would rather think of how the whole slate (of Lakas-CMD-Kampi) in the city wins and bring the needed reforms in the city administration for the prosperity of the people,” Cong Tarzan said at the press conference held after he filed his certificate of candidacy along with the whole city ticket led by Subic-Clark Alliance for Development Council Chair and External Affairs Sec. Ed Pamintuan and Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting.
Speaking of the city mayorship, earliest proclaimed wannabe Tony “T-Mac” Mamac is in a league of his own too. Entirely his own, if we append meanings to recent developments.
Last Monday, Liberal Party standard bearer Sen. Noynoy Aquino called on Mayor Blueboy Nepomuceno, did a press conference and pressed the flesh of herded Nepo supporters at the Angeles City hall. This spurred speculations that Blueboy, who remains with Danding Cojuangco’s Nationalist People’s Coalition, was being wooed by the LP to be its standard bearer in the city.
The speculations were further fueled after Noynoy told the press that the LP would announce its city chair “very soon,” as with talks and negotiations on the matter were yet to be concluded.
“We are soon to conclude talks. Give us a few more days and we are going to announce it soon.” So was Noynoy quoted as saying.
Now, if memory serves right, of the three announced contenders for Angeles City mayor, the T-Mac is the only LP bona fide member, having taken his oath before Noynoy himself when he declared his ambition to run for president.
So, why the need for any more “talks and negotiations on the matter”?
Does the LP leadership find something distrustful, if not unworthy, in the T-Mac to be party standard bearer in the city?
Don’t look now but his “girlie bar operator ” (mis)representation may have caught up with the T-Mac, having been played up in the Philippine Star which is as politically yellow as the sainted Cory, and her beloved son can get.
Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio, LP chair for Pampanga, may have gotten into the act too with his high moral standards set for party bets. Think of the moralist suspended priest sharing the same party, if not the same stage, with a “girlie bar operator”! The manangs would cringe in horror, crossing themselves in paroxysm of penitence.
Pure speculations all these are. It is a pity though that the earliest LP bird in Angeles City could just end up uninvited in his own party when the fireworks begin.
So sad, T-Mac. So sad.
Thus incumbent Rep. Tarzan Lazatin reduced the two pretenders to the 1st congressional district seat to a league of their own.
Cong Tarzan was fielding a question from Cris Navarro of Sun-Star Pampanga on who between Chito Bacani and Ares Yabut he considered would give him a good fight.
Tarzan, the reigning heavyweight champion as it were, sneering at flyweight contenders wanting to get into the ring with him there. So we fancy…
In the red corner, claiming a Pacman punch to knock out corruption, presenting Fighting Bacani-ni-ni-ni!
In the blue corner, claiming youth and the endorsement of a contactor who was knocked down in the Angeles City council for allegedly cornering all infrastructure projects in the city, presenting Flash Yabut-but-but-but!
Let’s get ready to rumble-ble-ble!
But not, apparently, in Tarzan’s jungle where he is king supreme. Bacani and Yabut better find a ring of their own, a three-ring circus, Tarzan could have scoffed.
“I would rather think of how the whole slate (of Lakas-CMD-Kampi) in the city wins and bring the needed reforms in the city administration for the prosperity of the people,” Cong Tarzan said at the press conference held after he filed his certificate of candidacy along with the whole city ticket led by Subic-Clark Alliance for Development Council Chair and External Affairs Sec. Ed Pamintuan and Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting.
Speaking of the city mayorship, earliest proclaimed wannabe Tony “T-Mac” Mamac is in a league of his own too. Entirely his own, if we append meanings to recent developments.
Last Monday, Liberal Party standard bearer Sen. Noynoy Aquino called on Mayor Blueboy Nepomuceno, did a press conference and pressed the flesh of herded Nepo supporters at the Angeles City hall. This spurred speculations that Blueboy, who remains with Danding Cojuangco’s Nationalist People’s Coalition, was being wooed by the LP to be its standard bearer in the city.
The speculations were further fueled after Noynoy told the press that the LP would announce its city chair “very soon,” as with talks and negotiations on the matter were yet to be concluded.
“We are soon to conclude talks. Give us a few more days and we are going to announce it soon.” So was Noynoy quoted as saying.
Now, if memory serves right, of the three announced contenders for Angeles City mayor, the T-Mac is the only LP bona fide member, having taken his oath before Noynoy himself when he declared his ambition to run for president.
So, why the need for any more “talks and negotiations on the matter”?
Does the LP leadership find something distrustful, if not unworthy, in the T-Mac to be party standard bearer in the city?
Don’t look now but his “girlie bar operator ” (mis)representation may have caught up with the T-Mac, having been played up in the Philippine Star which is as politically yellow as the sainted Cory, and her beloved son can get.
Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio, LP chair for Pampanga, may have gotten into the act too with his high moral standards set for party bets. Think of the moralist suspended priest sharing the same party, if not the same stage, with a “girlie bar operator”! The manangs would cringe in horror, crossing themselves in paroxysm of penitence.
Pure speculations all these are. It is a pity though that the earliest LP bird in Angeles City could just end up uninvited in his own party when the fireworks begin.
So sad, T-Mac. So sad.
