“I AM not supporting either of them.”
So said Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio – in our banner story here yesterday – of Senator Lito Lapid and Vice Gov. Yeng Guiao who have announced their bid for the Pampanga governorship in 2010.
So who is Panlilio supporting? Can’t tell now for sure. Perhaps he is still waiting for God to tell him whom to support.
Panlilio said he has not yet made up his mind whether to stay in politics or altogether pull out of it and go back to the priesthood, a not-so-easy path, what with a Vatican-sanctioned process he needed to undertake, so said a priest-friend.
Which reminds me no end of what the good Auxiliary Bishop Pablo David said of Panlilio at the time he was pursuing what he claimed was God’s call for him to run for the presidency, to wit: “I can only pray for (Panlilio). I think he’s in a state of delusion. I still hope he’ll see the light before it’s too late…I just wish he’d at least stop saying it’s all for the love of the priesthood. It begins to sound like a political campaign strategy.”
Sometime ago last year, Panlilio made a yo-yo of a pronouncement: He was directly quoted as saying his man for Pampanga governor in 2010 was City of San Fernando Mayor Oscar S. Rodriguez. After Mayor Oca made public his appreciation of the governor’s gesture, Panlilio denied he ever said the things for which the mayor was grateful.
In yesterday’s banner story, Panlilio made a variation of the Mayor-Oca-is-my-man-for-gov tale, with added garnishings.
Wrote Ding Cervantes: “…Panlilio said that re-election would be out of his consideration if San Fernando City Mayor Oscar Rodriguez will contest the gubernatorial post…At one time, Panlilio said Rodriquez, a former congressman who had played a significant role in the impeachment trial of former Pres. Joseph Estrada in the Senate, would run for governor.”
Thanks, for no thanks, coming from Mayor Oca this time, saying in media that Panlilio should run for re-election.
With that, re-election has become Panlilio’s prime consideration. Notwithstanding the offer of a senatorial seat from the Liberal Party.
It would be incumbent upon Panlilio to run for governor again. The confluence of the current of events in Pampanga pushes Panlilio towards that decision.
Whatever the outcome of the recount, Panlilio needs to run for governor.
If he wins, the cloud of doubt over his poll victory and the shadow of the recall movement would continue to hound him. Only a definitive triumph in 2010 would clear the slates, so to speak.
When former Board Member Lilia Pineda gets her justice from the uncounted “Nanay Baby” votes and is proclaimed the 2007 victor, all the more must Panlilio run – and win in 2010, if only to prove that the recount did not reflect the “true will” of the Kapampangan electorate.
With the 2010 gubernatorial contest being reduced by the day to a fight between the Pinedas and the Lapids, Panlilio would have no choice but to run for governor. His god would have to make such call, if she has not done yet.
A redux of 2007 there, the morality play scripted in the Panlilio mind of the twin evils of Pampanga warring for supremacy. Decidedly, there needed be the moral alternative, who, in the whole Pampanga, is none other than Panlilio himself.
So who is Panlilio supporting? Dummy.
So said Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio – in our banner story here yesterday – of Senator Lito Lapid and Vice Gov. Yeng Guiao who have announced their bid for the Pampanga governorship in 2010.
So who is Panlilio supporting? Can’t tell now for sure. Perhaps he is still waiting for God to tell him whom to support.
Panlilio said he has not yet made up his mind whether to stay in politics or altogether pull out of it and go back to the priesthood, a not-so-easy path, what with a Vatican-sanctioned process he needed to undertake, so said a priest-friend.
Which reminds me no end of what the good Auxiliary Bishop Pablo David said of Panlilio at the time he was pursuing what he claimed was God’s call for him to run for the presidency, to wit: “I can only pray for (Panlilio). I think he’s in a state of delusion. I still hope he’ll see the light before it’s too late…I just wish he’d at least stop saying it’s all for the love of the priesthood. It begins to sound like a political campaign strategy.”
Sometime ago last year, Panlilio made a yo-yo of a pronouncement: He was directly quoted as saying his man for Pampanga governor in 2010 was City of San Fernando Mayor Oscar S. Rodriguez. After Mayor Oca made public his appreciation of the governor’s gesture, Panlilio denied he ever said the things for which the mayor was grateful.
In yesterday’s banner story, Panlilio made a variation of the Mayor-Oca-is-my-man-for-gov tale, with added garnishings.
Wrote Ding Cervantes: “…Panlilio said that re-election would be out of his consideration if San Fernando City Mayor Oscar Rodriguez will contest the gubernatorial post…At one time, Panlilio said Rodriquez, a former congressman who had played a significant role in the impeachment trial of former Pres. Joseph Estrada in the Senate, would run for governor.”
Thanks, for no thanks, coming from Mayor Oca this time, saying in media that Panlilio should run for re-election.
With that, re-election has become Panlilio’s prime consideration. Notwithstanding the offer of a senatorial seat from the Liberal Party.
It would be incumbent upon Panlilio to run for governor again. The confluence of the current of events in Pampanga pushes Panlilio towards that decision.
Whatever the outcome of the recount, Panlilio needs to run for governor.
If he wins, the cloud of doubt over his poll victory and the shadow of the recall movement would continue to hound him. Only a definitive triumph in 2010 would clear the slates, so to speak.
When former Board Member Lilia Pineda gets her justice from the uncounted “Nanay Baby” votes and is proclaimed the 2007 victor, all the more must Panlilio run – and win in 2010, if only to prove that the recount did not reflect the “true will” of the Kapampangan electorate.
With the 2010 gubernatorial contest being reduced by the day to a fight between the Pinedas and the Lapids, Panlilio would have no choice but to run for governor. His god would have to make such call, if she has not done yet.
A redux of 2007 there, the morality play scripted in the Panlilio mind of the twin evils of Pampanga warring for supremacy. Decidedly, there needed be the moral alternative, who, in the whole Pampanga, is none other than Panlilio himself.
So who is Panlilio supporting? Dummy.
