Her pound of flesh
“NO one forced anybody to support my candidacy and no one is forcing anybody to stay.”
Thus spake the Honorable Eddie T. Panlilio, governor of Pampanga, in response to his reported rift with campaign supporters and their subsequent drift from his camp of ardent followers.
Foremost of them is the tapa and tocino queen of Pampanga, Mrs. Lolita Hizon, reputedly the biggest campaign contributor to Panlilio. She has gone on air and in print to demand the ouster of the governor’s twin towers of bungling arrogance – the (un)confirmed provincial administrator Atty. Vivian Dabu and the also (un)confirmed provincial legal officer Atty. Maria Elissa Velez – claiming they are “not fit” to serve at the Capitol.
No, Mrs. Hizon, who also leads a Christian charismatic group, has not severed her ties from her “Among.” Not as yet, despite her cold, cold demeanor towards the governor in a recent televised meeting with former Vice Governor Cicero Punzalan as go-between.
“I am not mad but I am disappointed. Not because of the money (that reportedly flowed from her immense treasure chest, not to mention the thousands of kilos of pindang and longganisa, during the campaign). He (Panlilio) can do much better if only he would consult us,” she was quoted as saying.
Even as Panlilio gave the re-assurance on television too that he still looked up to Mrs. Hizon as a son to his mother, the situation between them appears to have gone beyond a simple spat in the family.
For one, the governor in a Rotary talk was heard to have gone unson-like, defying the age-old mother-knows-best truism in alleging that Mrs. Hizon did not know the real situation at the Capitol as she rarely ventured out of her hallowed corridors. The figurative hyperbole here mine, not Panlilio’s
Of still greater concern are some loose talks currently circulating at the Capitol picturing Mrs. Hizon as a Shylock demanding her pound of flesh. (To those who have forgotten their Shakespeare, Shylock is the ruthless, exacting usurer in the Merchant of Venice.)
This is most unfair to Mrs. Hizon – “the unkindest cut” to use another Shakespearean phrase – coming from the direction of one who has wallowed so much in her innate goodness.
“Ingrato,” is what some local coños have deemed the governor for “biting the very hand that fed him.”
Some self-anointed civil society hireling countered that Mrs. Hizon desired to “reign over if not rein in the Panlilio administration.” So it was even more than a political payback that she most wanted.
From there we can most reasonably deduce that Mrs. Hizon was not a supporter but an investor in the Panlilio candidacy. The purported millions of pesos she poured into the campaign were not charitable donations but investments demanding instant returns once the Capitol was won. The time for ROI is now!
Indeed, a most unkind proposition given Mrs. Hizon’s defining persona as Mother Charity herself.
I wonder how her Conscience will take this.
(Zona Libre – PUNTO! – Sept. 13, 2007)
Thus spake the Honorable Eddie T. Panlilio, governor of Pampanga, in response to his reported rift with campaign supporters and their subsequent drift from his camp of ardent followers.
Foremost of them is the tapa and tocino queen of Pampanga, Mrs. Lolita Hizon, reputedly the biggest campaign contributor to Panlilio. She has gone on air and in print to demand the ouster of the governor’s twin towers of bungling arrogance – the (un)confirmed provincial administrator Atty. Vivian Dabu and the also (un)confirmed provincial legal officer Atty. Maria Elissa Velez – claiming they are “not fit” to serve at the Capitol.
No, Mrs. Hizon, who also leads a Christian charismatic group, has not severed her ties from her “Among.” Not as yet, despite her cold, cold demeanor towards the governor in a recent televised meeting with former Vice Governor Cicero Punzalan as go-between.
“I am not mad but I am disappointed. Not because of the money (that reportedly flowed from her immense treasure chest, not to mention the thousands of kilos of pindang and longganisa, during the campaign). He (Panlilio) can do much better if only he would consult us,” she was quoted as saying.
Even as Panlilio gave the re-assurance on television too that he still looked up to Mrs. Hizon as a son to his mother, the situation between them appears to have gone beyond a simple spat in the family.
For one, the governor in a Rotary talk was heard to have gone unson-like, defying the age-old mother-knows-best truism in alleging that Mrs. Hizon did not know the real situation at the Capitol as she rarely ventured out of her hallowed corridors. The figurative hyperbole here mine, not Panlilio’s
Of still greater concern are some loose talks currently circulating at the Capitol picturing Mrs. Hizon as a Shylock demanding her pound of flesh. (To those who have forgotten their Shakespeare, Shylock is the ruthless, exacting usurer in the Merchant of Venice.)
This is most unfair to Mrs. Hizon – “the unkindest cut” to use another Shakespearean phrase – coming from the direction of one who has wallowed so much in her innate goodness.
“Ingrato,” is what some local coños have deemed the governor for “biting the very hand that fed him.”
Some self-anointed civil society hireling countered that Mrs. Hizon desired to “reign over if not rein in the Panlilio administration.” So it was even more than a political payback that she most wanted.
From there we can most reasonably deduce that Mrs. Hizon was not a supporter but an investor in the Panlilio candidacy. The purported millions of pesos she poured into the campaign were not charitable donations but investments demanding instant returns once the Capitol was won. The time for ROI is now!
Indeed, a most unkind proposition given Mrs. Hizon’s defining persona as Mother Charity herself.
I wonder how her Conscience will take this.
(Zona Libre – PUNTO! – Sept. 13, 2007)
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