THEDURIANBEAT
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Tag Archives: 2010 elections
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WHO IS ED MALAY?
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Ed Malay, in all his 64 years (it was his birthday yesterday, April 22, 1946) has failed to accept the reality that a good education is critical to achieving any professional career. He finished High School at the MA ROXAS HIGH SCHOOL in 1964 and puts in his bio-data Adamson University 1964. It goes to show that he is a mere college drop-out trying to eke out a living pretending to be a professional journalist without any skill other than licking some powerful asses.
He faked my Facebook Account 3 times and left his trail in the URL address of the fake Facebook Accounts using my name and profile pictures, obviously not familiar how the internet protocol works especially with .php formatted webpages where CSS Style Sheets and Master Pages are commonly used and inserted with .php codes which leaves behind the Master Page URLs.
He was even quoted as telling a potential client ” my webpage was hacked by a trojan virus ” In his world of pretentions, trojan viruses now can hack websites like his virus-ridden website http://www.philpolitics.com. I have warned you this is a virus infested website, browse at your own risk.
The pathetic Ed Malay even faked an autograph of Former President Fidel V. Ramos in one of his pictures in his Facebook Account where he forged a note on the picture purportedly written by FVR on the bond paper where he placed the picture and wrote in very small space, avoiding writing on the main picture, contrary to usual autographed pictures where the celebrities write all over the picture to make the authograph autehntic for the fan.
He even has an photo album in Facebook Titled ‘Spiritual Sojourn in HK’, a pathetic attempt to look holy but why not in Lourdes France, or Medjugorje, or the Holy Land? Why of all places seek spirituality in HongKong, a shopping haven?
Obviously, the guy is such a pathetic creature in his last hurrah. Umayos Ka Ed Malay !
CHANGE? WHAT CHANGE SPEAKER NOGRALES?
Davao City today is Mindanao’s premier city. It is the country’s third biggest earning local government unit. It enjoys political stability.
There is a housing boom with the country’s top high-end housing developers coming in to take part in the bonanza. Investors are coming in droves with millions to invest. Tourism is on the upswing. The businessmen are laughing their way to the banks. The poor gets food assistance from the local government. Indigents do not pay hospitalization bills.
Be not afraid of criminals. In Davao City you can be at peace and feel safe. Unless you are a criminal, our city is safe for you. Peace and order has earned for the local police numerous national honors.
Is there a need for a change in this city that has become the envy of other cities?
We are asking this question because Speaker Prospero Nograles, his running mate Benjamin de Guzman and Nograles errand boy-son who wants to become congressman are promising changes in the way Mayor Rodrigo Duterte had been running the city for twenty years.
Have they something to add to the peace and order situation?
What is their contribution no matter how minuscule to the city’s painful march from the troubled 80s of what is today’s premier city, to suggest our city needs change?
When the business community thanks Duterte for his all-out support for business atmosphere to flourish, what contribution did Nograles, de Guzman and Karlo give to this effort?
If this trio suffering from the hallucination that they can lead the city cannot answer these questions, then they have no business duping people with their so-called Politics of Change.
Change we need. Change we must.
But let us give credit to Nograles for the thing he has done. In his plastic-coated and maddened attempt to capture City Hall, he has offered late-coming palliatives to make his politics of change believable. Educational scholarships? It is not his but a program of the Department of Education. Livelihood projects and food assistance? It is a program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development. Don’t be fooled by nationally-funded projects with signboards saying these are initiatives of the Speaker and his errand boy-son Karlo. These are programmed projects of the Department of Public Works and Highways that Dabawenyos deserve and not because of Nograles.
In short, what Nograles claims are products of his politics of performance are projects and programs of the national government used for propaganda to beef up his image.
As for de Guzman, it is enough to say that Dabawenyos trusted him for a brief period as mayor only for the reason that he was Duterte’s then trusted lieutenant. The public indictment in the 2001 elections that had him losing to comebacking Duterte provides the answer to the question of whether or not he performed well in the 3 years that he was mayor.
We should take a look back to the pas to see why Duterte is in the heart of the Dabawenyos and not Nograles, de Guzman or errand boy Karlo.
Davao City has emerged from the ruins of the troubled 80s of communist urban occupancy under Duterte’s administration without a shadow of this trio helping in the effort.
In that critical period in 1988 when the city needed a leader, Duterte won on the campaign promise he would restore order and peace and business confidence on the city then seen as a no man’s land by investors.
What he did to make the promise a reality, Dabawenyos will never forget. What is Davao City today is a testament to the Duterte administration and the Dabawenyos and their collective effort to push the city forward.
When Duterte first sat at City Hall in 1988, the city coffer had a measly annual revenue of P180 million to run the local government.
Today, the city treasurer reports that 2009 revenue is hovering near the P4 billion mark. If the figure astounds, give it to business confidence inspired by the local government leadership and the infrastructures needed for business to grow. Last year, investors poured P5.9 billion in new projects, adding to billions of pesos in past years lured by the Duterte administration.
Think about this: If Duterte stirred this city into this remarkable performance in his nearly 20 years as mayor, what moral ascendancy have Nograles, de Guzman and the errand boy to now claim that the city administration needed change?
We are one with a businessman’s analysis of things to come in May: If Nograles wins with his dubious politics of change, he would be the luckiest guy in town. Without a sweat, he becomes mayor of the city built into what it is now today from the labors of Duterte—and the Dabawenyos—without a Nograles, a de Guzman or a Karlo lending a helping hand in the painful march through the years to progress and peace.
Is there a need for change? No. As Vice Mayor Inday Sara Duterte would say, all the foundations for the city’s march forward have already been laid down by the Duterte administration. What is needed is not change in the administration, but efforts to further improve these foundations for the benefit and welfare of the Dabawenyos.
25,000 join Hugpong rally
If numbers can speak, then Speaker Prospero Nograles is dead.
In a show of support for Vice Mayor Inday Sara Duterte and Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, more than 25,000 people massed at the Rizal Park on March 26 for the proclamation rally of the Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod.
On the same night a few hundred meters away from Rizal Park, Nograles was also holding a rally attended by a sparse crowd of about 500, at the back of Men Seng Hotel.
The Friday night political event at the start of the campaign period for local candidates was one of the biggest ever gathering at the public park.
Nograles, leading his Team Nograles of the administration Lakas/Kampi/CMD, is battling Inday Sara for the mayoral post in May. Mayor Duterte is up against Benjamin de Guzman, Nograles’ running mate.
Counted out as politically dead by the Hugpong, Nograles has yet to gather a crowd larger than that in the Hugpong rally.
Nograles is banking on a hurriedly formed machinery in the Second and Third districts in his third attempt to capture City Hall against Hugpong’s tried and tested campaign machinery.
After faring badly in surveys—consistently rating a point against Inday Sara’s nine points—Nograles has been called upon by Hugpong to give up the fight.
During the proclamation rally, the large crowd crammed Rizal Park and Quezon Park fronting City Hall, including the City Council building grounds and Bolton street extension road.
The event was graced by a mix of senatorial candidates to be supported by Hugpong: Silvestre Bello III, Pia Cayetano of Nationalista Party (NP), Franklin Drilon of Liberal Party (LP), Juan Ponce Enrile of Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP), Jinggoy Estrada, also of PMP, Ferdinand Marcos, Jr of NP, Gwendolin Pimentel of NP and Vicente Sotto III of Nationalist People’s Coalition. Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla is in the list but was not around and represented by actor Philip Salvador.
Proclaimed as official candidates in the congressional race were Congressman Isidro Ungab of the Third District, lawyer Mylene Garcia of the Second District and Councilor Mabel Acosta of the First District.
Duterte also proclaimed Hugpong candidates in the city council derby—an eight-man slate each in the First and Third districts; and a 16-man roster in the Second District, where there is an overpopulation of Hugpong members seeking seats in the local legislative body.
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Dirty tactics?
Top leaders of Team Nograles have warned the camp of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to stop resorting to foul play, stressing that every trick of the local administration would come up with “will be dealt with accordingly.”
“These are all desperate acts from those who cannot accept the fact that electoral defeat is staring them in the face,” the leadership of Team Nograles chorused in a press conference, as a handbill titled Burlesk King circulated in Davao City.
The Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod in reaction said Team Nograles should come up with evidence to prove Hugpong was behind the production and circulation of the handbill.
Speaker Nograles does not lack in enemies who could seize on the Burlesk King scandalto express their anger and frustration at the Speaker, said Hugpong.
Team Nograles, also said Hugpong, should look at the mirror to see who is engaging in dirty tactics.
Since late last year, their dogs in both print and broadcast have been describing Mayor Duterte in language used by hooligans. We did not react knowing these nincompoops in media are only driving away support for Nograles with their commentaries that also border on inanities, said Hugpong.
As to its claim that Mayor Duterte and Vice Mayor Inday Sara are facing defeat, Hugpong said Team Nograles should go back to the mirror and analyze why the size of the nose matters in this election.
No distraction
Team Nograles Third District congresssional bet Ruy Elias Lopez has accused Hugpong incumbent congressman Isidro Ungab as behind the disqualification case against him.
“This Petition for Disqualification is nothing but a nuisance case that would only disturb the time and effort of the Honorable Commission on Elections (Comelec) and at the same time distract the attention of the people in the District 3 of Davao City,” said Lopez in a news report in the Mindanao Insider Daily.
Ungab said there is no need for him to distract the attention of voters in the district: As of now they are focused on preventing the return of a former congressman whose 9-year term was spent in coffee shops and golf courses.
Gilangaw!
Karlo Nograles also has been hitting media for reporting that Team Nograles rallies have been attracting very, very thin crowds. The best way to resolve the debate is through the most simplest of jobs: headcount. In the proclamation rally of Hugpong, 25,000 people crammed Rizal Park and the areas surrounding City Hall in a show of support for Inday Sara and Mayor Duterte. Karlo should be thankful that media did not give much coverage to the Team Nograles rally on the same night at the back of Men Seng attended only by 500 people.
Team Nobodies
As a public service and our own personal crusade to help voters decide whom to vote in the coming elections, we are publishing the names of candidates under the Team Nograles/Lakas-Kampi-CMD of Speaker Prospero Nograles.
The list, except for a few who have miserable tract record of defeats in past elections, includes virtual unknowns with very, very slim chances of winning against the formidable line-up of the Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.
To level the playing field, we are publishing their names, in the hope one or two would land a seat in the Davao City Council. We are not supposed to include the names of Speaker Nograles who is running for mayor, Benjamin de Guzman for vice mayor and Karlo Nograles for First District, them being sure losers and their fate doomed to perdition in May, but we have to out of pity.
Here they are:
Speaker Prospero Nograles for City Mayor.
Benjamin de Guzman for Vice Mayor.
For the First District, Team Nograles has Atty. Karlo B. Nograles, son of the Speaker, as candidate for Congress. His First District City Council slate is made up of former Councilor Shane Dolor, Barangay Captain Joel Santes, former Integrated Bar of the Phils.-Davao President Prospero Mojica, ex-Sangguniang Kabataan chair Jo Anne Bonguyan, Ateneo de Davao registrar Atty. Rene Villarente, Barangay Captain Rommel delos Reyes, Rotary Club governor Billy Parilla and Dr. Jeff Ho.
In the Second District, Team Nograles is fielding civic leader and businesswoman Joji Ilagan Bian as candidate for Congress. The City Council slate is made up of women rights advocate Atty. Elvie Sederiosa, businessman Angelo “Apo” Aportadera, Bunawan Barangay Kagawad Joseph Saucejo, Paquibato tribal leader Jose Amban, , Atty. Leopoldo Cagatin, ex-Councilor Beethoven Orcullo with Bogs Rodriguez and Anthony Pichon from the pioneering Davao families.
In the Third District, Team Nograles has comebacking 3-term congressman Ruy Elias Lopez as lead candidate. Other than congress candidate Lopez, District 3 will have Council bets Councilor Teresita Mata-Marañon, ex-Councilor Rene Lopez, ex-Councilor Salvador Caingles, ex-Councilor Reynaldo Reyes, ex-Councilor Alan Dolor, ex-Barangay Captain Lolito “Boy” Sucayre, Greggo Pantig and media man Aljun Layao.
For the First District, Team Nograles has Atty. Karlo B. Nograles, son of the Speaker, as candidate for Congress. His First District City Council slate is made up of former Councilor Shane Dolor, Barangay Captain Joel Santes, former Integrated Bar of the Phils.-Davao President Prospero Mojica, ex-Sangguniang Kabataan chair Jo Anne Bonguyan, Ateneo de Davao registrar Atty. Rene Villarente, Barangay Captain Rommel delos Reyes, Rotary Club governor Billy Parilla and Dr. Jeff Ho.
In the Second District, Team Nograles is fielding civic leader and businesswoman Joji Ilagan Bian as candidate for Congress. The City Council slate is made up of women rights advocate Atty. Elvie Sederiosa, businessman Angelo “Apo” Aportadera, Bunawan Barangay Kagawad Joseph Saucejo, Paquibato tribal leader Jose Amban, , Atty. Leopoldo Cagatin, ex-Councilor Beethoven Orcullo with Bogs Rodriguez and Anthony Pichon from the pioneering Davao families.
In the Third District, Team Nograles has comebacking 3-term congressman Ruy Elias Lopez as lead candidate. Other than congress candidate Lopez, District 3 will have Council bets Councilor Teresita Mata-Marañon, ex-Councilor Rene Lopez, ex-Councilor Salvador Caingles, ex-Councilor Reynaldo Reyes, ex-Councilor Alan Dolor, ex-Barangay Captain Lolito “Boy” Sucayre, Greggo Pantig and media man Aljun Layao.
Inday Sara to beat Rody record in beating Prospero
If survey trends are to be an indicator, chances are Vice Mayor Inday Duterte would do better than Mayor Rodrigo Duterte in beating Speaker Prospero Nograles in the mayoral race next month.
In collated surveys, Inday Sara has been consistently rating at 80% to 90%, with Nograles in some surveys barely getting 10%.
We predict Inday Sara getting a vote margin against Nograles at the vicinity of 300,000 votes, said the Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod of Mayor Duterte.
In 1992, reelectionist Mayor Duterte thrashed Nograles in his first crack at the mayoral post with a vote margin of 170,000. The win landed Mayor Duterte with the record of having the second highest vote margin in that elections, next to actor Joey Marquez, who won the mayoral race in Paranaque City with a margin of about 180,000 against his nearest opponent.
Nograles also lost by a wide margin against then Vice Mayor Benjamin de Guzman, who was backed by Mayor Duterte, in the 1998 mayoral race. In his second attempt to capture City Hall de Guzman dealt Nograles with a 120,000 vote margin.
After the dust of the May elections would have settled, Inday Sara would not only be beating Nograles but also Mayor Rodrigo Duterte whose record in terms of vote margins would be surpassed by Inday Sara, said Hugpong.
In the latest of political debacles in pre-election mock polls, Nograles maintained his unquestioned superiority at the bottom getting an anemic 13% against Inday Sara’s 87%, in a mock poll held at the Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU).
In the vice mayoral race, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte delivered another lethal blow to Nograles’ running mate Benjamin de Guzman, who perfected his consistency as a virtual loser with 8.80% against the outgoing mayor’s 91.20%.
The results of the mock poll at the ADDU has inspired pity in Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod, Mayor Duterte’s party, for Nograles.
Hugpong said Nograles, with his poor showing in surveys and mock polls, after the May polls would end up with an unenviable record in the mayoral race and begged him not to push through with his bid so he would not end up in the history of Davao City politics as the politician who lost thrice in the race to City Hall.
In January, Inday Sara and Mayor Duterte also pulverized the duo in back-to-back surveys by the University of Mindanao and its broadcast network UMBN Radyo Ukay.
In the mock poll at ADDU with 25 percent of the Catholic school’s 7,978 students, faculty and staff voting, Inday Sara garnered 1,097 (87%) against Nograles’ 167 (13%).
In what has become a pattern in mock polls and surveys, Duterte in the same mock poll run away with a hefty 1,150 (91%) against de Guzman’s 111 (9%).
In the cruelest of showings so far for the administration tandem, the mock poll held at the Davao Medical School Foundation (DMSF) with 297 faculty members, staff and students as respondents, 271 chose Inday Sara for a 91.25 % share, with Nograles getting a measly 26 votes or 8.75 percent.
In the polling for the vice mayoral race with 294 voting, Duterte got the nod of 273 respondents (92.85 %), while de Guzman took a mere 21 votes (7.15%).
The University of Mindanao (UM) and UMBN Radyo Ukay surveys in January 22-25, 2010 had Nograles and de Guzman miserably knocked down flat to kiss the bottom rung. The UM surveys at its Bolton and Matina campuses with 2,590 students as respondents netted 75.9 % for Inday against Nograles’ 13.4 %; while Duterte got 68.4 percent to clobber de Guzman’s anemic 6%.
Nogie campaign crumbling down
Like London Bridge
Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod’s call for Speaker Prospero Nograles to raise the flag of surrender in his fight for the mayoral post against Vice Mayor Inday Sara Duterte is now becoming a sole option for the Nograles camp suffering saddled with unsolvable woes in organizing its ranks in the outer districts of the city.
As in the 1988 and 1992 mayoral battles, Nograles is facing anew a big organizational headache a few days to go before elections, as Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s formidable machinery warms up for the big battle to ensure Inday Sara’s win in the May elections.
While politically entrenched in the First District, Nograles and his Team Nograles campaign machinery in the Second and Third districts is a woeful mess without footing.
We see a repeat of previous mayoral battles where the Nograles machinery conked out at the first round, said Hugpong.
The Inday Sara-Nogie fight would be like the Pacquiao-Clottey bout. As Manny would massacre Clottey from start to finish, Inday Sara would massacre Nogie from start to finish to come out the champion, said Hugpong.
This same predicament had hounded the campaign in previous battles of Nograles, now in his third attempt to dislodge Duterte’s 22-year dominance of local politics.
In the 1988 mayoral elections, Nograles’ machinery crumbled even before the start of the campaign period as he failed to organize a campaign wagon in the outer districts.
Even in the First District, he also lost by a considerable margin against Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, then on his second reelection.
In the 1992 elections in his second try at the top post, Nograles also was clobbered by then vice mayor Benjamin de Guzman, who was supported by Duterte who was then running our his third and last term. Again, political pundits pointed to Nograles’ weak machinery particularly in the Second and Third districts.
In the first contest, the defeat of Nograles then enjoying a level of popularly and known as Davao City’s “Wonder Boy” honored Duterte with the distinction as second winning candidate with the highest margin of votes throughout the country in that elections.
In the second mayoral battle, de Guzman, Duterte’s former city administrator whom he crafted to become vice mayor in 1995 and mayor in 1998, clobbered Nograles whose defeat was mainly credited to Duterte’s support.
On top of the organizational blues, Nograles and de Guzman are also hobbled by poor showings in collated surveys with both scoring dismal figures that gravitates around 10 percentiles.
In the Third District, party point man former congressman Elias Ruy Lopez, staging a comeback to recapture the post held by incumbent Hugpong Congressman Isidro Ungab, is cracking up the party with his alleged arrogance. A Bagobo, Lopez has been disowned by his tribe after he shamed Bagobo tribal leader Max Gabao during a party caucus last month.
In the Second District the Garcia machinery remains formidable to back-stop Hugpong in lawyer Mylene Garcia’s bid to succeed outgoing Congressman Vincent Garcia, her brother. Garcia is running against councilors Diosdado Mahipus and Danilo Dayanghirang, who are running as independents but could gather votes for Inday Sara and Mayor Duterte being Hugpong members. The fourth in the race is Joji Ilagan Bian who is running under Nograles’ ticket.
The First District, where Nograles commands a formidable following being his congressional district, could be a toss-up between Hugpong and LakasKampi/CMD but and even score would further push upwards the votes of Inday Sara and Mayor Duterte from the two outer districts.
Nogie’s P45,000 rice per bag yarn the‘funniest joke’ of the 2010 elections
THEDURIANBEAT
BY ROGER M. BALANZA
Black propaganda and mudslinging come in many forms during elections, including those that tickle the funny bones.
The Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod said Speaker Prospero Nograles’ expose about City Hall buying rice at P45,000 per bag stands out as the ‘funniest joke of the season’ dislodging his other earlier rib-tickling exposes about Mayor Rodrigo Duterte absconding with P2.9 billion worth of government assets and the alleged overprice purchase of garbage bins by the city government.
COMEDY GALORE. From the the P2.9 billion missing government assets, to the garbage bins purchase and to the funniest joke about City Hall buying rice at P45,000 per bag, Speaker Prospero Nograles’ and Benjamin de Guzman’s exposes are turning out to be destined to become best-sellers in a book of jokes
Hugpong, the party of Mayor Duterte, said as in his earlier
exposes, Nograles and his Team Nograles cleverly used as basis the Commission on Audit report that allegedly showed massive financial anomalies in the city government.
The COA regional office here has disowned any responsibility in the report being used for black propaganda by Nograles and described his move as inspired by politics. Last year as Nograles prepped up for the mayoralty race against Vice Mayor Sara Duterte, he had the COA conduct an audit on the government’s financial status. The COA final report would later show that it has not found anomalies on how Mayor Rodrigo Duterte handled public money.
Hugpong said the claim by Speaker Nograles about the purchase by City Hall of rice at P45,000 per bag could end up like his other exposes on the alleged P2.9 billion missing assets and garbage bins purchase which ended up as jokes that tickled the funny bones of the Dabawenyos.
The P2.9 billion alleged as missing by Speaker Nograles turned out to be assets that date back to 1937. Nograles’ claim that the garbage bins were overpriced based on canvass by Team Nograles of bins sold at Chinatown in Sta. District was likewise demolished by Mayor Duteerte. The bins bought by the city from an international supplier could last for eight years, while Nograles’ Chinatown bins could crack up in 30 days if he and his vice mayor Benjamin de Guzman were dumped inside and the bin is rolled around city streets in test for durability.
Hugpong thanked Nograles for his latest yarn about alleged anomalies in the rice purchase, saying his jokes provided a comic relief to his otherwise boring campaign against Inday Sara.
Seriously, however, Hugpong explained how Nograles unearthed non-existent anomalies from the COA audit report: In cut-and-paste fashion, he spliced portions of the report to show alleged anomalies in what is seen as a magic trick to fool the Dabawenyos. Nograles is not unlike the Last Two ‘winning numbers’ operators along San Pedro who dupe people by selling them alleged sure-winning numbers.
Nograles and de Guzman despite bragging about their battery of 18 top-notch lawyers and accountants who are ready to back the charge of corruption against City Hall would not themselves file the case because they knew they have no solid evidence to prove their allegations, said Hugpong.
They wanted the Ombudsman in Mindanao to conduct a moto propio probe based on media reports about corruption flooding out of de Guzman’s mouth. They urged taxpayers to file action on their behalf. Neither the Ombudsman nor the Davao City taxpayers took the cudgels for their lies. Failing to convince them, Nograles found an idiot in Malacanang to file in thier behalf the case with the Ombudsman in Manila, said Hugpong.
As the funniest joke dished out during this election season by Speaker Nograles, the alleged purchase by City Hall of rice at P45,000 bag like the P2.9 billion missing asset charge and the overpriced garbage bins is nothing but pure undiluted lie, said the Duterte party
We have been urging Speaker Nograles to himself file the charge. He would not as his evidence were fabricated and would not stand in court. If he does that and his magic tricks are discovered he would end like up the biggest joke in the May election with the Speaker as the joker.
Nogie’s ‘change we need, change we must’ motto slammed
Change? What change, Nograles?
By ROGER M. BALANZA
