BOKYA. NADA. Zero. Zilch.
Utterly abysmal was the non-performance of 4th District Rep. Anna York Puyat Bondoc-Sagum, in the district as in the House, for the past six years.
Not a single bill she authored – did she ever? – was enacted into law. Her best, and only, privilege speech in the august halls of Congress was declaring “Present!” at the attendance call.
An odious comparison: The two-termer Bondoc-Sagum laying a big fat rotten egg in terms of legislation vis-à-vis the first termer 3rd District Rep. Aurelio “Dong” Gonzales conceiving and birthing the mini-Marshall Plan that is the billion-peso Bacolor Rehabiltation Law. Most odious comparison indeed.
In the district, Bondoc-Sagum’s promise of two reliable district hospitals finding non-fulfillment in the “Mona Lisa state” of the San Luis and Macabebe district hospitals. State of dilapidation bringing to mind the refrain of that Mona Lisa song, “…they just lie there, and they die there…” meant for their poor patients.
In the district too, overpriced but short-delivered and “under-specificationed” infrastructure projects monopolized by one EDSA Construction, reportedly owned by an uncle of Bondoc-Sagum’s husband, and one Sambo Construction, owned by a purported veterinarian, and husband of a mayoralty candidate fighting her own father. Yeah, that same Sambo in the news lately threatening with libel a loyal factotum of his father-in-law for saying he – Sambo – is swamped with a torrent of estafa cases.
An ingrate! So is Bondoc-Sagum likened to the asp that bit the hand that fed it in her declaration of her intent to contest the House Speakership against the President from whom she got the largesse of development, with whom she travelled the world.
So discoursed congressional candidate Rene Maglanque, with the closing exhortation: End the depression and stagnation of the fourth district wrought by the Bondoc-Sagum doldrums. Bring in the fresh air of change, of true development, of progress.
A former assistant secretary at the Department of Transportation and Communications, Maglanque has a clear-cut mission for the fourth district: a final solution to the perennial flooding that will, at the same time, engender greater productivity, and for the nation: a total overhaul of the procurement law, to make it air-tight against corruption.
An engineer by training and a builder by profession, Maglanque has in his heart a bill creating the Pampanga River Development Authority that will oversee the management of the province’s main water channel that covers flood control, the provision of irrigation water all year-round, the river’s utilization in eco-tourism as well as in transportation. Think river cruises and water festivals there. A long-term goal is the development of the Pampanga River as an alternative source of drinking water for Metro Manila. A most brilliant idea there, given this season of El Niño.
Maglanque says: “Even Masantol and Macabebe, hometown of Mrs. Bondoc-Sagum will finally be free from floods and instant inundation after a brief rain, when a massive water management and development program has been set in place.”
Yeah, for all her six years in the House, Bondoc-Sagum has not spared her own townmates from destructive floods, noted Maglanque.
“Look at how her posters emphasize her doctora persona with that stethoscope dangling from her shoulder. Puro prop lang yan. She may be a doctor but she has yet to treat even just one patient in the whole fourth district,” sneered Maglanque.
So what has Bondoc-Sagum to say of her twice-beaten rival?
“Gusto niyang dagdagan ko pa ang lamang kong 80,000 boto sa kanya noong 2007. (He’d like me to increase my margin of over 80,000 votes in 2007).”
Unperturbed, even oozing with confidence, Maglanque says Bondoc-Sagum is in for a “big surprise” this time around.
“Let her to her delusions. The political equation has totally changed,” said the persistent contender.
Utterly abysmal was the non-performance of 4th District Rep. Anna York Puyat Bondoc-Sagum, in the district as in the House, for the past six years.
Not a single bill she authored – did she ever? – was enacted into law. Her best, and only, privilege speech in the august halls of Congress was declaring “Present!” at the attendance call.
An odious comparison: The two-termer Bondoc-Sagum laying a big fat rotten egg in terms of legislation vis-à-vis the first termer 3rd District Rep. Aurelio “Dong” Gonzales conceiving and birthing the mini-Marshall Plan that is the billion-peso Bacolor Rehabiltation Law. Most odious comparison indeed.
In the district, Bondoc-Sagum’s promise of two reliable district hospitals finding non-fulfillment in the “Mona Lisa state” of the San Luis and Macabebe district hospitals. State of dilapidation bringing to mind the refrain of that Mona Lisa song, “…they just lie there, and they die there…” meant for their poor patients.
In the district too, overpriced but short-delivered and “under-specificationed” infrastructure projects monopolized by one EDSA Construction, reportedly owned by an uncle of Bondoc-Sagum’s husband, and one Sambo Construction, owned by a purported veterinarian, and husband of a mayoralty candidate fighting her own father. Yeah, that same Sambo in the news lately threatening with libel a loyal factotum of his father-in-law for saying he – Sambo – is swamped with a torrent of estafa cases.
An ingrate! So is Bondoc-Sagum likened to the asp that bit the hand that fed it in her declaration of her intent to contest the House Speakership against the President from whom she got the largesse of development, with whom she travelled the world.
So discoursed congressional candidate Rene Maglanque, with the closing exhortation: End the depression and stagnation of the fourth district wrought by the Bondoc-Sagum doldrums. Bring in the fresh air of change, of true development, of progress.
A former assistant secretary at the Department of Transportation and Communications, Maglanque has a clear-cut mission for the fourth district: a final solution to the perennial flooding that will, at the same time, engender greater productivity, and for the nation: a total overhaul of the procurement law, to make it air-tight against corruption.
An engineer by training and a builder by profession, Maglanque has in his heart a bill creating the Pampanga River Development Authority that will oversee the management of the province’s main water channel that covers flood control, the provision of irrigation water all year-round, the river’s utilization in eco-tourism as well as in transportation. Think river cruises and water festivals there. A long-term goal is the development of the Pampanga River as an alternative source of drinking water for Metro Manila. A most brilliant idea there, given this season of El Niño.
Maglanque says: “Even Masantol and Macabebe, hometown of Mrs. Bondoc-Sagum will finally be free from floods and instant inundation after a brief rain, when a massive water management and development program has been set in place.”
Yeah, for all her six years in the House, Bondoc-Sagum has not spared her own townmates from destructive floods, noted Maglanque.
“Look at how her posters emphasize her doctora persona with that stethoscope dangling from her shoulder. Puro prop lang yan. She may be a doctor but she has yet to treat even just one patient in the whole fourth district,” sneered Maglanque.
So what has Bondoc-Sagum to say of her twice-beaten rival?
“Gusto niyang dagdagan ko pa ang lamang kong 80,000 boto sa kanya noong 2007. (He’d like me to increase my margin of over 80,000 votes in 2007).”
Unperturbed, even oozing with confidence, Maglanque says Bondoc-Sagum is in for a “big surprise” this time around.
“Let her to her delusions. The political equation has totally changed,” said the persistent contender.
