LESS A criticism, more an unsolicited advice is this take on congressional wannabe Ares Yabut.
Yabut’s full page “So the People May Know” political advertisement in Sun- Star Pampanga (Feb. 25, 2010) is all thunder on paper but sheer fart in reality.
First in the listed legislative agenda of Yabut is the creation of a lone district for Angeles City. This, for the towns of Mabalacat and Magalang – once separated – to have their rightful share in the congressional pork barrel and for their sons and daughters to have their own place in the political sun currently shining only on the children of Angeles City. Yes, neither a Congressman Yeng Guiao nor a Congressman Cris Garbo will ever come a-borning with Angeles City’s number of voters far outweighing Mabalacat and Magalang’s combined.
Swell idea for an agendum there. On paper. The reality is that reelectionist Rep. Tarzan Lazatin has – on Aug. 6, 2007 yet – already filed House Bill No. 1776, “An Act Declaring Angeles City in the Province of Pampanga as Lone Congressional District.” The bill is logged at the House committee on local government.
Second in Yabut’s agenda is the conversion of the Pampanga Agricultural College into a state university, patterned after UP Los Baños.
Again a brilliant idea that should have come long time ago. Again, Yabut is too late in coming to it.
On July 30, 2007, Lazatin filed House Bill No. 1488, “An Act Declaring Pampanga Agricultural College as a State University.” Corollary to this, Lazatin filed, on Feb. 10, 2009, House Bill No. 5910, “An Act Declaring Pampanga Agricultural College as a State University to be named Diosdado Macapagal Agriculture and Science State University.”
Even after the declaration of the Don Honorio Ventura State University in Bacolor town which, by practice if not by law, precluded the naming of another state university in a single province, Lazatin did not lose heart and pursued the cause for the DMASSU. No less than Commission on Higher Education chair Attorney-Doctor Emmanuel Y. Angeles confirmed this and the “high probability” of its coming into being before mediamen in a post-Christmas party he hosted in early January 2010.
Yabut’s agendum No. 3 is cityhood for Mabalacat. Once more, too late the hero in Yabut here.
Lazatin’s House Bill No. 2350, “An Act Converting the Municipality of Mabalacat in the Province of Pampanga into a Component City to be known as the City of Mabalacat” has been passed by the House and is now in the Senate.
Only last Feb. 3, 2010, the Department of Finance issued a certification attesting to the compliance of Mabalacat with the requirements of cityhood, to wit: “the average income of Mabalacat for Calendar Year 2008 and 2009 based on the year 2000 constant prices, exclusive of IRA, special funds, transfer and non-recurring income is P144,541,537.24, which is above the minimum income requirement of P100 million pursuant to RA 9009 amending Section 450 of RA 7160 or the Local Government Code for the conversion of a municipality into a component city.”
Legislation on the cityhood of Mabalacat is moot and academic already at this stage. A done deal, Sen. Ramon Revilla, Jr. himself said. That is all in the papers, local and national and all over radio and television. That Yabut still included it in his legislative agenda bespeak of his utter cluelessness of what is going on around him, if not his sheer ignorance of legislation.
Which in effect negates his boast of capability and experience as three-term councilor, and put a definitive dubiousness if not duplicity to his winning “most outstanding councilor of the Philippines, 2007” from a never-heard of award-vending, er, -giving body.
With the veteran Lazatin already in a been-there-done-that mode where Yabut’s proposed agenda are concerned, the upstart is totally reduced nothing but a fourth-rate, trying hard copycat, to improve on the blurb in that Sharon Cuneta classic.
This is no way to win, Yabut. No matter the millions of wastage in tarpaulins and media advertising.
And yes, be careful of what you pledge too. It may just be used against you.
Like your “PLEDGE: ‘I will not commit gross neglect of duty by frequent or chronic absenteeism.”
Somebody from the city hall of Yabut’s partner Mayor Blueboy Nepomuceno handed us an incomplete but certified record of attendance of the sangguniang panlungsod.
So how did Yabut fare?
For the period January to December 2008, Yabut was present 43 times, absent 10 times, on official business once, on-leave once, on sick leave twice.
From January to June 2007, Yabut present only twice, absent nine times, on OB once, on-leave five times.
For the whole of 2006, Yabut was present 22 times, absent 17 times, and on-leave thrice.
For 2005, Yabut was present 28 times, absent 17 times, and on leave 10 times.
From July to December 2004, Yabut was present 16 times, absent six times, and on-leave once.
Based on his attendance at the Angeles City council, Yabut puts the lie in his very pledge. In reality, Yabut makes the very definition of “frequent and chronic absenteeism.”
The intrepid and intellectual Cong Chito Bacani can take it from there.
Yabut’s full page “So the People May Know” political advertisement in Sun- Star Pampanga (Feb. 25, 2010) is all thunder on paper but sheer fart in reality.
First in the listed legislative agenda of Yabut is the creation of a lone district for Angeles City. This, for the towns of Mabalacat and Magalang – once separated – to have their rightful share in the congressional pork barrel and for their sons and daughters to have their own place in the political sun currently shining only on the children of Angeles City. Yes, neither a Congressman Yeng Guiao nor a Congressman Cris Garbo will ever come a-borning with Angeles City’s number of voters far outweighing Mabalacat and Magalang’s combined.
Swell idea for an agendum there. On paper. The reality is that reelectionist Rep. Tarzan Lazatin has – on Aug. 6, 2007 yet – already filed House Bill No. 1776, “An Act Declaring Angeles City in the Province of Pampanga as Lone Congressional District.” The bill is logged at the House committee on local government.
Second in Yabut’s agenda is the conversion of the Pampanga Agricultural College into a state university, patterned after UP Los Baños.
Again a brilliant idea that should have come long time ago. Again, Yabut is too late in coming to it.
On July 30, 2007, Lazatin filed House Bill No. 1488, “An Act Declaring Pampanga Agricultural College as a State University.” Corollary to this, Lazatin filed, on Feb. 10, 2009, House Bill No. 5910, “An Act Declaring Pampanga Agricultural College as a State University to be named Diosdado Macapagal Agriculture and Science State University.”
Even after the declaration of the Don Honorio Ventura State University in Bacolor town which, by practice if not by law, precluded the naming of another state university in a single province, Lazatin did not lose heart and pursued the cause for the DMASSU. No less than Commission on Higher Education chair Attorney-Doctor Emmanuel Y. Angeles confirmed this and the “high probability” of its coming into being before mediamen in a post-Christmas party he hosted in early January 2010.
Yabut’s agendum No. 3 is cityhood for Mabalacat. Once more, too late the hero in Yabut here.
Lazatin’s House Bill No. 2350, “An Act Converting the Municipality of Mabalacat in the Province of Pampanga into a Component City to be known as the City of Mabalacat” has been passed by the House and is now in the Senate.
Only last Feb. 3, 2010, the Department of Finance issued a certification attesting to the compliance of Mabalacat with the requirements of cityhood, to wit: “the average income of Mabalacat for Calendar Year 2008 and 2009 based on the year 2000 constant prices, exclusive of IRA, special funds, transfer and non-recurring income is P144,541,537.24, which is above the minimum income requirement of P100 million pursuant to RA 9009 amending Section 450 of RA 7160 or the Local Government Code for the conversion of a municipality into a component city.”
Legislation on the cityhood of Mabalacat is moot and academic already at this stage. A done deal, Sen. Ramon Revilla, Jr. himself said. That is all in the papers, local and national and all over radio and television. That Yabut still included it in his legislative agenda bespeak of his utter cluelessness of what is going on around him, if not his sheer ignorance of legislation.
Which in effect negates his boast of capability and experience as three-term councilor, and put a definitive dubiousness if not duplicity to his winning “most outstanding councilor of the Philippines, 2007” from a never-heard of award-vending, er, -giving body.
With the veteran Lazatin already in a been-there-done-that mode where Yabut’s proposed agenda are concerned, the upstart is totally reduced nothing but a fourth-rate, trying hard copycat, to improve on the blurb in that Sharon Cuneta classic.
This is no way to win, Yabut. No matter the millions of wastage in tarpaulins and media advertising.
And yes, be careful of what you pledge too. It may just be used against you.
Like your “PLEDGE: ‘I will not commit gross neglect of duty by frequent or chronic absenteeism.”
Somebody from the city hall of Yabut’s partner Mayor Blueboy Nepomuceno handed us an incomplete but certified record of attendance of the sangguniang panlungsod.
So how did Yabut fare?
For the period January to December 2008, Yabut was present 43 times, absent 10 times, on official business once, on-leave once, on sick leave twice.
From January to June 2007, Yabut present only twice, absent nine times, on OB once, on-leave five times.
For the whole of 2006, Yabut was present 22 times, absent 17 times, and on-leave thrice.
For 2005, Yabut was present 28 times, absent 17 times, and on leave 10 times.
From July to December 2004, Yabut was present 16 times, absent six times, and on-leave once.
Based on his attendance at the Angeles City council, Yabut puts the lie in his very pledge. In reality, Yabut makes the very definition of “frequent and chronic absenteeism.”
The intrepid and intellectual Cong Chito Bacani can take it from there.
