SO WHAT’S with the months of June-July to Ed Pamintuan?
Same time last year, something buzzed about Ed merited this editorial in Punto’s June 27 issue, titled Super Ed:
NO. THIS has nothing to do with the Reverend Governor. This has everything to do with the other Ed, the one most favored by the resident of the Palace by the Pasig River.
Member of the Cabinet twice over as head of the Office of External Affairs and the Subic-Clark Alliance for Development Council. Chief of the Presidential Action Center and resident firefighter of Malacanang in times of crisis, political and otherwise. Incoming president and CEO of the Northrail project.
More hats worn – and fitting-in easily – than your run-of-the-mill national government executive. That is Pampanga’s prime contribution to the Macapagal-Arroyo administration, the better, nay, best Ed for GMA: Secretary Edgardo Pamintuan.
The President’s trust and confidence in Pamintuan, borne by his outstanding performance in the pursuit of multi-tasks, make us Kapampangans really proud of this Ed.
For Pamintuan to still covet the presidency of the Clark Development Corp. – a post way below his current status – is already supreme avarice, if not utter stupidity. And Pamintuan, unlike so many other men in government, is not, has never been, stupid. Nor covetous of positions or credits.
Pamintuan himself said: “It will be too much (of him) even to be just interested in positions lower than that of as Cabinet secretary.”
Pamintuan was reacting to reports – emanating allegedly from some pseudo-corporate backrooms in the City of San Fernando – that he wanted to take the top CDC post and thus acted as principal intriguer, the Iago to Liberato Laus’ Othello. To those uninitiated in the Bard of Avon, that simply meant Pamintuan did not simply work but actively conceived of, connived, and conspired for Lau’s removal from the CDC presidency.
Such hogwash the Secretary should not have dignified with a reaction.
Back to June-July 2009 now. Only two weeks back, intrigue swirled around the CDC anew – sown, unwittingly, in part by that editorial here that hailed Subic as soaring and Clark as crawling in aspects of foreign direct investments. So it was misconstrued as a plot to unseat the current CDC president, and, with Punto in the scene, a reprise of the Laus ouster.
Guess who was made prime suspect? Who else but the usual suspect where the CDC presidency is at stake, Ed Pamintuan!
Good, he did not dignify this pure bovine ordure with a comment.
Then, like a bolt from the blue yonder, Ed was damned by Barangay C.M. Recto Chair Val Lagman for his abject failure to help the homeless of Angeles City when he was head of the National Housing Authority (NHA).
The record speaks for itself. So Ed said.
Such hogwash the Secretary should not have dignified with a reaction.
But so the public may know, at the risk of seemingly being his own trumpeter, of raising his own chair, so to use the Kapampangan adage, Ed pointed to just some concrete programs and projects that benefitted residents of Angeles as well as other areas, the NHA having a national constituency.
Like the Bliss Marisol site in Barangay Ninoy Aquino, that greatly benefitted from the Slum Improvement Program of the NHA through the improvement of the road networks, drainage construction, site development and improvement; and the Community Mortgage Program, with over 50,000 families from four provinces of Central Luzon as beneficiaries, including those from the Pulung Cacutud, and the Pandacaqui Resettlement areas.
Like the funding by the NHA of various resettlement assistance programs amounting to P10 million for Angeles City with some 2,100 families in Barangays Pampang, Cuayan, Malabanas (Lanzones Open Space and Santol), Pandan A and B, Sapang Bato and Capaya-Buklod benefited from the construction of drainage systems and concreting of roads.
Like the assistance of the NHA given the city government in facilitating the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the city government and the Don Pepe Henson Enterprises, Inc. with the NHA providing technical assistance for the Subdivision Survey and Disposition of the Henson property in Barangay Pampang which was disposed to families qualified for tenurial assistance program of the government.
Like Ed’s “strong representations” with the President to waive the fees being imposed on those who were displaced and relocated to the different resettlement sites in four provinces of Central Luzon. This was the issue of usufruct that GMA herself definitively dealt with, on her very birthday on April 5, 2003, herself distributing land titles for the full and free ownership of the houses and lots the relocatees were occupying.
Res ipsa loquitur, indeed.
For Ed to be accused of having done nothing for the people of Angeles City while head of NHA is truly pure hogwash needing a flush to the septic tank where it rightly belongs.
“It seems the season for muckraking and black propaganda – a trademark of a political clan in Angeles City – has started rather too early indeed. I can only surmise that some people are being paranoid about reports and speculations regarding my return to local politics, such that they are resorting to their old trade and trick as early as this time.” Right on there, Ed. Oblige them, run.
Same time last year, something buzzed about Ed merited this editorial in Punto’s June 27 issue, titled Super Ed:
NO. THIS has nothing to do with the Reverend Governor. This has everything to do with the other Ed, the one most favored by the resident of the Palace by the Pasig River.
Member of the Cabinet twice over as head of the Office of External Affairs and the Subic-Clark Alliance for Development Council. Chief of the Presidential Action Center and resident firefighter of Malacanang in times of crisis, political and otherwise. Incoming president and CEO of the Northrail project.
More hats worn – and fitting-in easily – than your run-of-the-mill national government executive. That is Pampanga’s prime contribution to the Macapagal-Arroyo administration, the better, nay, best Ed for GMA: Secretary Edgardo Pamintuan.
The President’s trust and confidence in Pamintuan, borne by his outstanding performance in the pursuit of multi-tasks, make us Kapampangans really proud of this Ed.
For Pamintuan to still covet the presidency of the Clark Development Corp. – a post way below his current status – is already supreme avarice, if not utter stupidity. And Pamintuan, unlike so many other men in government, is not, has never been, stupid. Nor covetous of positions or credits.
Pamintuan himself said: “It will be too much (of him) even to be just interested in positions lower than that of as Cabinet secretary.”
Pamintuan was reacting to reports – emanating allegedly from some pseudo-corporate backrooms in the City of San Fernando – that he wanted to take the top CDC post and thus acted as principal intriguer, the Iago to Liberato Laus’ Othello. To those uninitiated in the Bard of Avon, that simply meant Pamintuan did not simply work but actively conceived of, connived, and conspired for Lau’s removal from the CDC presidency.
Such hogwash the Secretary should not have dignified with a reaction.
Back to June-July 2009 now. Only two weeks back, intrigue swirled around the CDC anew – sown, unwittingly, in part by that editorial here that hailed Subic as soaring and Clark as crawling in aspects of foreign direct investments. So it was misconstrued as a plot to unseat the current CDC president, and, with Punto in the scene, a reprise of the Laus ouster.
Guess who was made prime suspect? Who else but the usual suspect where the CDC presidency is at stake, Ed Pamintuan!
Good, he did not dignify this pure bovine ordure with a comment.
Then, like a bolt from the blue yonder, Ed was damned by Barangay C.M. Recto Chair Val Lagman for his abject failure to help the homeless of Angeles City when he was head of the National Housing Authority (NHA).
The record speaks for itself. So Ed said.
Such hogwash the Secretary should not have dignified with a reaction.
But so the public may know, at the risk of seemingly being his own trumpeter, of raising his own chair, so to use the Kapampangan adage, Ed pointed to just some concrete programs and projects that benefitted residents of Angeles as well as other areas, the NHA having a national constituency.
Like the Bliss Marisol site in Barangay Ninoy Aquino, that greatly benefitted from the Slum Improvement Program of the NHA through the improvement of the road networks, drainage construction, site development and improvement; and the Community Mortgage Program, with over 50,000 families from four provinces of Central Luzon as beneficiaries, including those from the Pulung Cacutud, and the Pandacaqui Resettlement areas.
Like the funding by the NHA of various resettlement assistance programs amounting to P10 million for Angeles City with some 2,100 families in Barangays Pampang, Cuayan, Malabanas (Lanzones Open Space and Santol), Pandan A and B, Sapang Bato and Capaya-Buklod benefited from the construction of drainage systems and concreting of roads.
Like the assistance of the NHA given the city government in facilitating the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the city government and the Don Pepe Henson Enterprises, Inc. with the NHA providing technical assistance for the Subdivision Survey and Disposition of the Henson property in Barangay Pampang which was disposed to families qualified for tenurial assistance program of the government.
Like Ed’s “strong representations” with the President to waive the fees being imposed on those who were displaced and relocated to the different resettlement sites in four provinces of Central Luzon. This was the issue of usufruct that GMA herself definitively dealt with, on her very birthday on April 5, 2003, herself distributing land titles for the full and free ownership of the houses and lots the relocatees were occupying.
Res ipsa loquitur, indeed.
For Ed to be accused of having done nothing for the people of Angeles City while head of NHA is truly pure hogwash needing a flush to the septic tank where it rightly belongs.
“It seems the season for muckraking and black propaganda – a trademark of a political clan in Angeles City – has started rather too early indeed. I can only surmise that some people are being paranoid about reports and speculations regarding my return to local politics, such that they are resorting to their old trade and trick as early as this time.” Right on there, Ed. Oblige them, run.
