AMONG ED T. Panlilio was buried by Gov. Lilia “Nanay Baby” Pineda in an avalanche of 381,446 votes – that’s just the lamang, not Nanay’s total. (All the figures here are not the sum of the votes the Comelec counted, culled as they are from the GMA network reports.)
His running mate, Atty. Maria Amalia Tiglao lost to Nanay’s unico hijo Dennis, aka Delta, by a whopping margin of 247,704 votes.
His provincial administrator, Atty. Vivian Dabu, was walloped by infirmed and detained Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo with a 133,106-vote margin.
Big losers all, but the bigger loser here is the sanctimonious moral minority that propagandized “PNoy’s choices” as getting already up to 47 percent of the votes going into the homestretch of the campaign.
Also ABS-CBN for reporting, in the morning of Election Day, that Pineda and Panlilio were in a “tight contest.”
Tight as any looser than loose can be, the results proved.
The biggest loser though is the Movement Against Dynasty in the case of the mag-inda, and the GMA-bashers in PNoy’s corner.
Blueboy Nepomuceno lost to Yeng Guiao by 23,333 votes.
The loss impacted less on the mercurial coach’s superior strategy, more on the blasting of the myth of the Angeleños voting for their own.
The bigger losers here though were those who wagered on Blueboy as odds-on favourite. A friend of Ashley Manabat is said to have lost P350,000.
Still, the biggest losers are us hecklers who entered “Paciencia Paras Yabut” in the political lore of the first district. Peace be with you, Cong Yeng.
Cong Tarzan Lazatin lost to Mayor Ed Pamintuan by 13,969 votes – readily attributable to the INC blocked ballot.
Yet, the bigger losses were in the betting that reportedly reached eight digits in scale and scope. Yeah, the man called “Mugabe” but who is actually a dead ringer for Uganda’s Idi Amin and a virtual clone of Bond baddie Yaphet Kotto now sports a perpetual ear-to-ear grin, with all his whites showing. Rich guy just got richer there.
Still, the biggest losers are the radio hacks now left clutching at straws in the face of the libel charges EdPam filed against them.
Balibago chief Rodelio “Tony” Mamac lost to incumbent Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting by 5,820 votes. Again, the INC factored here.
T-Mac is the biggest loser himself, ranting over DWGV against the INC after he failed to get the church’s blessing. Good luck to him in his next political outing.
Kuyang Jerry Pelayo lost to the fourth district comeback kid Rimpy Bondoc by 22,025 votes. His son Patrick also failed in his bid to succeed him.
Even bigger losers than the Pelayos are the Mapiles brothers – Sun-Star Pampanga’s Herbert, and Pampanga Information Office chief Joel – who have been marked by Bondoc’s factotum as “bagya na la mu.” That spells a thousand and one meanings, mainly cruel, savage, harmful, detrimental, deadly, lethal, fatal…
Pampanga’s Best’s Madame Lolita Hizon lost to incumbent Bacolor Vice Mayor Ananias Canlas, Jr. by only 1,303 votes.
A case of losing face for the matriarch there, given her storied charity monumentalized in a wing of the Bacolor town hall and in the street lights in the downtown area.
But the bigger losers are those that will now be deprived of their staple diet of tocino and longanisa during the election campaign. Biggest losers still are those that contracted high blood pressure and high cholesterol out of that diet.
Incumbent Rep. Aurelio “Dong” Gonzales lost to his ninong, comebacking Cong Oscar S. Rodriguez by a margin of 30,074 votes.
The loss here of the cerebral Jun Sula, Cong Dong’s spinmeister, who also shared in Dr. Rey Aquino’s failed mayoralty bid, hardly compares to that of a large segment of the third district populace.
In Dong’s loss, the biggest losers are his over 40,000 scholars who now face the uncertainty of continuing their education. As well as the senior citizens dependent on his assistance for their dialysis procedures, and the treatment or management of their diabetes and other infirmities.
Tough luck. This business of losing.
