Invitation to resignation
SACCHARINE AS it looks, that’s no billboard for the latest telenovela of Kapamilya’s Jericho Rosales and Carmen Soo, nor of Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera of Kapuso.
Capture it did though the drama – and the comedy too – continuously unraveling at the capitol. That is that billboard pictured in this issue’s front page.
There is the fully made-over – photoshopped? – radiant-as-a-bride Atty. Vivian Dabu, the putative provincial administrator, consorted by the beaming, well-groomed Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio.
The lay-out was so contrived – with the fonts used and the juxtaposed photos – as to conjure a wedding invitation. Yes, there is even that very unsubtle give-away : “An invitation” to the “People of Pampanga.” Not to an assignation, nuptial at that, but to a resignation – Dabu’s and Panlilio’s.
“Kay Panlilio ang sarap. Sa Balas Boys ang hirap. (Panlilio’s pleasure is the Balas Boys’ hardship).” Malicious me sees a double entendre there with Dabu as common object. Of desire and derision? Only those Balas Boys, and their Among, would most certainly know.
The touch of salaciousness though was not lost to many who saw the billboard, not the least of whom was Senior Board Member Cris Garbo who quipped at the start of Monday’s sangguniang panlalawigan nth committee hearing on the plaints of the Balas Boys, “O ikit yu no deng bayung kasal? (Have you seen the newly-weds?)”
The Dabu-Panlilio billboard is only the centerpiece in a slew of new streamers festooned around the Arnedo Park fronting the capitol.
“Gov. Panlilio, e yo pu pagkanulu reng Kapampangan keng metung a babae. Konsensya pu. (Gov. Panlilio, do not betray the Kapampangan for a woman. Heed your conscience).” Some semblance of respect still there, with the message very appealing in tone.
“Gob. Panlilio, walang palabra de honor (Gov. Panlilio has no word of honor).” A complete turn-about there, tantamount to saying the Honorable Governor is shameless. Ain’t a man’s word his very honor, as that cliché holds? Or as the Tagalogs say “Sa taong may hiya, salita’y panunumpa.”
“Reng Balas Boys sinawa no kang Gobernador uling eya tutupad keng pisabi. (The Balas Boys are fed up with the Governor as he does not honor whatever has been agreed upon.)” That is yet another screamer of a streamer on Panlilio’s questioned integrity or lack of it.
Then, there is the all-too direct “Panlilio resign” in a multiplicity of streamers.
There appears to be all love for Panlilio lost among the Balas Boys and their “true” supporters in the civil society. Or at least they who financed those streamers. That the honorific term of endearment Among has totally disappeared in their streamers and posters is manifest of this.
So the Balas Boys who attended the SP hearing wore white T-shirts emblazoned with “Among Resign” in bloody red. So they were quick to clarify that they would soon discard the shirts in favor of the more direct “Panlilio Resign” still at the stenciling shop.
So what has the Reverend Governor to say to all these?
From a press release of the Office of the Governor comes this:
“Their slogans are disrespectful and provocative,” Gov. Panlilio lamented. “A mockery of the governor and the provincial administrator is uncalled for. Let us work on a win-win resolution to this crisis through a level-headed exchange of opinions, not through character assassination,” the provincial chief executive challenged.”
Right on the view of raising the heady exchange to a level of mature, if not intelligent, appreciation of issues. But still harping on a situation that is “win-win”?
So, after all those dialogues with the Balas Boys and civil society intercessions, where has the Governor been all along?
Capture it did though the drama – and the comedy too – continuously unraveling at the capitol. That is that billboard pictured in this issue’s front page.
There is the fully made-over – photoshopped? – radiant-as-a-bride Atty. Vivian Dabu, the putative provincial administrator, consorted by the beaming, well-groomed Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio.
The lay-out was so contrived – with the fonts used and the juxtaposed photos – as to conjure a wedding invitation. Yes, there is even that very unsubtle give-away : “An invitation” to the “People of Pampanga.” Not to an assignation, nuptial at that, but to a resignation – Dabu’s and Panlilio’s.
“Kay Panlilio ang sarap. Sa Balas Boys ang hirap. (Panlilio’s pleasure is the Balas Boys’ hardship).” Malicious me sees a double entendre there with Dabu as common object. Of desire and derision? Only those Balas Boys, and their Among, would most certainly know.
The touch of salaciousness though was not lost to many who saw the billboard, not the least of whom was Senior Board Member Cris Garbo who quipped at the start of Monday’s sangguniang panlalawigan nth committee hearing on the plaints of the Balas Boys, “O ikit yu no deng bayung kasal? (Have you seen the newly-weds?)”
The Dabu-Panlilio billboard is only the centerpiece in a slew of new streamers festooned around the Arnedo Park fronting the capitol.
“Gov. Panlilio, e yo pu pagkanulu reng Kapampangan keng metung a babae. Konsensya pu. (Gov. Panlilio, do not betray the Kapampangan for a woman. Heed your conscience).” Some semblance of respect still there, with the message very appealing in tone.
“Gob. Panlilio, walang palabra de honor (Gov. Panlilio has no word of honor).” A complete turn-about there, tantamount to saying the Honorable Governor is shameless. Ain’t a man’s word his very honor, as that cliché holds? Or as the Tagalogs say “Sa taong may hiya, salita’y panunumpa.”
“Reng Balas Boys sinawa no kang Gobernador uling eya tutupad keng pisabi. (The Balas Boys are fed up with the Governor as he does not honor whatever has been agreed upon.)” That is yet another screamer of a streamer on Panlilio’s questioned integrity or lack of it.
Then, there is the all-too direct “Panlilio resign” in a multiplicity of streamers.
There appears to be all love for Panlilio lost among the Balas Boys and their “true” supporters in the civil society. Or at least they who financed those streamers. That the honorific term of endearment Among has totally disappeared in their streamers and posters is manifest of this.
So the Balas Boys who attended the SP hearing wore white T-shirts emblazoned with “Among Resign” in bloody red. So they were quick to clarify that they would soon discard the shirts in favor of the more direct “Panlilio Resign” still at the stenciling shop.
So what has the Reverend Governor to say to all these?
From a press release of the Office of the Governor comes this:
“Their slogans are disrespectful and provocative,” Gov. Panlilio lamented. “A mockery of the governor and the provincial administrator is uncalled for. Let us work on a win-win resolution to this crisis through a level-headed exchange of opinions, not through character assassination,” the provincial chief executive challenged.”
Right on the view of raising the heady exchange to a level of mature, if not intelligent, appreciation of issues. But still harping on a situation that is “win-win”?
So, after all those dialogues with the Balas Boys and civil society intercessions, where has the Governor been all along?
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