Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan has asserted that historically, only his administration has surpassed P1 billion annual revenues mostly raised from local sources, even as he elbowed aside criticisms over his plans for a Heritage Park fountain and a new public memorial park.
In his regular monthly press conference last Wednesday, Pamintuan also cited a survey of 4,000 respondents showing him leading by a wide margin his potential challengers in the 2016 mayoral race.
“It’s an 80-20 fi ght showing many people like what we’re doing,” he said. The survey which ended last week, allegedly indicated that while his percentage ratings “remained in double figures,” that of Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting, who will reportedly also run for mayor, plunged from 9 percent to only 2.9 percent.
Pamintuan is slated to run for reelection in 2016 for his last mayoral term. “It will be a mopping up operations during my last term. We will build small roads and also seek ways to raise more revenues,” he said.
VM statement
Reached for her reaction, Vice Mayor Vega- Cabigting said: “First, my question to the Mayor.
If according to ‘their survey’, I am at the lowest of low, how come they are attacking me on all sides. Ang kulelat po di na pinpansin. You do that to people who are a ‘threat’ to you. I already made my statement a few days ago, that even if I am the last woman standing for my pro-people cause, I will be at peace. I heard that they paid millions for the survey and yet they are not releasing the true results.
They are threatened with the result of their own survey and are now in panic mode. A case of being frightened by the ghost they created.”
