“IF HE does not stop telling his lies about me, I would be forced to tell the truth about him.”
Local business leader Rene Romero may as well have quoted that politican of yore whom I cannot now quite recall when he asked Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio to “tell the truth and stop deceiving the public.”
The president of the Philippines’ foremost business group for the year – the Pampanga Chamber of Commerce Inc., and the chair of the gung-ho Advocacy for the Development of Central Luzon, virtually called there a liar the man he backstopped for the governorship.
Romero was reacting to Panlilio’s reaction over his observation that a failure in leadership has obtained in Pampanga since the latter’s assumption to office.
In a war of words over the local press, Panlilio questioned the very credibility of Romero in making such an assessment.
“As a voter and a Kapampangan, I have the right to tell the public what is really happening. The thing I can’t imagine is how can he lie in public? He should get his facts right before issuing statements which are not only false but rather far from the truth.” So was Romero quoted as saying.
In earlier run-ins between them, Panlilio insinuated that Romero’s fall-out from the Capitol’s graces owed to some request for favors the governor did not have in his heart to grant.
“All lies,” Romero shouted before the thousands who came to the Recall Panlilio rallies then.
“I never asked any personal favor from Panlilio. In fact, I am the one helping him until such time that he betrayed us. But what angers me the most is his mastery and capability to alter the truth. Whenever he speaks in public, he just says I had some proposals which he turned down. But he does not give all the details that such proposals are not personal favors but rather development programs for the province that were conceptualized and created by various private sector groups and NGOs…All we asked from him is to serve the best interest of the people and launch developmental programs for economics, business, tourism and agriculture.” So Romeo is saying now, as he also said then.
Constant consistency in Romero there. Unlike Panlilio, whose constancy is marked only by his own inconsistency.
Like when he vowed before the Kapampangan electorate that he would have only one term as governor and turn over the reins of the Capitol to one he would train in moral governance. So, who’s running for re-election now?
Like when he said it was God Herself that called him to run for the presidency, and then – with four percent poll rating after barnstorming the national scene, from the media to the provincial hustings – he simply ceded that divine call to Senator Noynoy Aquino. Whether it was God that also asked him to withdraw – from the presidential race, not necessarily from the bank – Panlilio did not bother to say.
Constant and consistent truly is Panlilio in his inconsistency.
Did he not say he loved the priesthood? Even when he flirted with the presidential ambition, even as he reveled in the senatorial seduction, did he not keep harping on his burning desire to return to being an alter Christus?
All this now burnt out with the far stronger desire to wallow in politics, thus the time to seek a dispensation from the priesthood.
Yes, lest we forget, did not Panlilio sniped at the good Bishop Ambo David that he was not his superior when the latter asked him but a few months back to cease from using the priesthood to advance his political interest and to seek dispensation should he persisted in his political ambition?
Breaking vows, be they made before God – as with that of obedience at his very ordination, or before man – as in all things he promised since becoming governor, is a Panlilio vice.
Broken promises to and lack of concern for the senior citizens, merited Panlilio a dismal grade of 20 – out of a high of 100, from the elderly.
And Linda Gaddi-David, president of the Pampanga chapter of the National Federation of Senior Citizens’ Associations of the Philippines, was roundly criticized by her peers for that rating. Not so much for being harsh on the governor but for being “very kind” to him.
If only for depriving them of the funds rightfully accruing to them from their share in the provincial development fund, Panlilio deserved a grade of 0. Zilch. Nada. This, a number of senior citizens believes.
Gaddi-David made of Panlilio a – God forbid! – lying priest: “I don’t know why he doesn’t honor his word when he is supposed to be a man of God.”
Want to know where lies the truth in the governor?
Ask Attorney Vivian Dabu. She may very well know being Panlilio alter-, if not supra, ego.
Local business leader Rene Romero may as well have quoted that politican of yore whom I cannot now quite recall when he asked Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio to “tell the truth and stop deceiving the public.”
The president of the Philippines’ foremost business group for the year – the Pampanga Chamber of Commerce Inc., and the chair of the gung-ho Advocacy for the Development of Central Luzon, virtually called there a liar the man he backstopped for the governorship.
Romero was reacting to Panlilio’s reaction over his observation that a failure in leadership has obtained in Pampanga since the latter’s assumption to office.
In a war of words over the local press, Panlilio questioned the very credibility of Romero in making such an assessment.
“As a voter and a Kapampangan, I have the right to tell the public what is really happening. The thing I can’t imagine is how can he lie in public? He should get his facts right before issuing statements which are not only false but rather far from the truth.” So was Romero quoted as saying.
In earlier run-ins between them, Panlilio insinuated that Romero’s fall-out from the Capitol’s graces owed to some request for favors the governor did not have in his heart to grant.
“All lies,” Romero shouted before the thousands who came to the Recall Panlilio rallies then.
“I never asked any personal favor from Panlilio. In fact, I am the one helping him until such time that he betrayed us. But what angers me the most is his mastery and capability to alter the truth. Whenever he speaks in public, he just says I had some proposals which he turned down. But he does not give all the details that such proposals are not personal favors but rather development programs for the province that were conceptualized and created by various private sector groups and NGOs…All we asked from him is to serve the best interest of the people and launch developmental programs for economics, business, tourism and agriculture.” So Romeo is saying now, as he also said then.
Constant consistency in Romero there. Unlike Panlilio, whose constancy is marked only by his own inconsistency.
Like when he vowed before the Kapampangan electorate that he would have only one term as governor and turn over the reins of the Capitol to one he would train in moral governance. So, who’s running for re-election now?
Like when he said it was God Herself that called him to run for the presidency, and then – with four percent poll rating after barnstorming the national scene, from the media to the provincial hustings – he simply ceded that divine call to Senator Noynoy Aquino. Whether it was God that also asked him to withdraw – from the presidential race, not necessarily from the bank – Panlilio did not bother to say.
Constant and consistent truly is Panlilio in his inconsistency.
Did he not say he loved the priesthood? Even when he flirted with the presidential ambition, even as he reveled in the senatorial seduction, did he not keep harping on his burning desire to return to being an alter Christus?
All this now burnt out with the far stronger desire to wallow in politics, thus the time to seek a dispensation from the priesthood.
Yes, lest we forget, did not Panlilio sniped at the good Bishop Ambo David that he was not his superior when the latter asked him but a few months back to cease from using the priesthood to advance his political interest and to seek dispensation should he persisted in his political ambition?
Breaking vows, be they made before God – as with that of obedience at his very ordination, or before man – as in all things he promised since becoming governor, is a Panlilio vice.
Broken promises to and lack of concern for the senior citizens, merited Panlilio a dismal grade of 20 – out of a high of 100, from the elderly.
And Linda Gaddi-David, president of the Pampanga chapter of the National Federation of Senior Citizens’ Associations of the Philippines, was roundly criticized by her peers for that rating. Not so much for being harsh on the governor but for being “very kind” to him.
If only for depriving them of the funds rightfully accruing to them from their share in the provincial development fund, Panlilio deserved a grade of 0. Zilch. Nada. This, a number of senior citizens believes.
Gaddi-David made of Panlilio a – God forbid! – lying priest: “I don’t know why he doesn’t honor his word when he is supposed to be a man of God.”
Want to know where lies the truth in the governor?
Ask Attorney Vivian Dabu. She may very well know being Panlilio alter-, if not supra, ego.
