Misreading Panlilio
“DAPAT BIYASA kang mamasang balat candy. (You should know how to read candy wrappers).”
The allegory – perhaps localized from the idiom of reading between the lines – is a favorite of Senior Board Member Cris Garbo when trying to divine the probable motives behind any pronouncement and every act of Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio. Yes, Garbo finds any candy wrapper more efficacious than tea leaves on that score.
So let me do a Garbo and read the candy wrapper on the governor’s latest pronouncements as they appeared in the papers.
“I will remain a priest because my ordination was divinely instituted, but then I will be deprived of my priestly powers, including the power to administer sacraments.”
Thus said Panlilio after disclosing that he has officially asked Archbishop Paciano Aniceto to grant him dispensation from the priesthood, invoking there the Melchizedek clause of once-a-priest, forever-a-priest.
It would look now that aside from his priestly powers, Panlilio has been deprived his direct line to God. Yeah, the same God who, Panlilio said, called him to run for president but he spurned by giving in to Noynoy. If this God called Panlilio to run again for governor, Panlilio did not say. Enough proof that God is already out of coverage area or unavailable where Panlilio is concerned. This explains why Panlilio had to take a reverend pastor – Marco Lazatin – for vice governor. If only to re-establish communication links with God.
“If I opt to get married later, I could not even get married in church, although it can be done in civil courts.” Why the civil courts only? The altar at the His Life City Church can be just fine, so long as a most distinguished member of their congregation is the not-so-blushing bride.
Yes, and while at it, why not bring back those tarpaulins with images of the Capitol couple in-governance put up at the Arnedo Park by the then-striking Balas Boys. They looked like wedding invitations, Garbo noted then.
On the business at hand, Panlilio said: "In 2007, it was a three-cornered fight. But actually, at that time, the Pineda camp was focused on the Lapid camp until I came in. But this time, it will be me and Mrs. Pineda looking at the Capitol as I have decided to seek reelection and continue our programs of good governance, ethical leadership and responsible citizenship."
Yes, Gov, as it was in 2007, the Pineda camp was focused on the Lapid camp again this time around – Senator Lito Lapid proclaiming in October his intent to seize the governorship anew until he opted (or was he co-opted?) to seek re-election.
Okay, so what does the candy wrapper say about the Panlilio mantra of “good governance, ethical leadership and responsible citizenship”?
Paying the His Life City Church P675,000 for a leadership and worship services seminar its youth arm conducted for the Capitol is good governance and ethical. The separation of Church and State be damned!
Attesting to the P13 million-plus net worth of the putative provincial administrator sans a single centavo for payment from the Capitol for all of 2008. This, vis-a-vis an income tax payment of P12,000 with a refund of over P3,000 is good governance and ethical.
Defying court orders to reinstate the provincial hospital head who was dismissed allegedly on the whim of the Office of the Governor is good governance and ethical.
Dismissing from the service proven performers like social welfare and development chief Luchie Gutierrez and the Balas Boys, hailed as the real heroes behind the tremendous increase in the quarry collections, is good governance and ethical leadership.
The list of instances of Panlilio’s brand of good governance and ethical leadership dating from his admonition to then acting Gov. Yeng Guiao that his was “only a caretaker government” and demanding a stoppage to all scheduled bidding, to his request for “blanket authority” in all Capitol deals that is good governance and ethical leadership.
“Hindi kami papayag na ibigay na lamang ng ganoon sa isang babaeng kandidata ang nasimulan namin ng walang kalaban-laban (We will not surrender without a fight what we have started to a woman candidate).”
Wow, for all his deference to his putative provincial administrator, the dispensation-seeking suspended priest is a certified male chauvinist. Women of Pampanga, unite!
The allegory – perhaps localized from the idiom of reading between the lines – is a favorite of Senior Board Member Cris Garbo when trying to divine the probable motives behind any pronouncement and every act of Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio. Yes, Garbo finds any candy wrapper more efficacious than tea leaves on that score.
So let me do a Garbo and read the candy wrapper on the governor’s latest pronouncements as they appeared in the papers.
“I will remain a priest because my ordination was divinely instituted, but then I will be deprived of my priestly powers, including the power to administer sacraments.”
Thus said Panlilio after disclosing that he has officially asked Archbishop Paciano Aniceto to grant him dispensation from the priesthood, invoking there the Melchizedek clause of once-a-priest, forever-a-priest.
It would look now that aside from his priestly powers, Panlilio has been deprived his direct line to God. Yeah, the same God who, Panlilio said, called him to run for president but he spurned by giving in to Noynoy. If this God called Panlilio to run again for governor, Panlilio did not say. Enough proof that God is already out of coverage area or unavailable where Panlilio is concerned. This explains why Panlilio had to take a reverend pastor – Marco Lazatin – for vice governor. If only to re-establish communication links with God.
“If I opt to get married later, I could not even get married in church, although it can be done in civil courts.” Why the civil courts only? The altar at the His Life City Church can be just fine, so long as a most distinguished member of their congregation is the not-so-blushing bride.
Yes, and while at it, why not bring back those tarpaulins with images of the Capitol couple in-governance put up at the Arnedo Park by the then-striking Balas Boys. They looked like wedding invitations, Garbo noted then.
On the business at hand, Panlilio said: "In 2007, it was a three-cornered fight. But actually, at that time, the Pineda camp was focused on the Lapid camp until I came in. But this time, it will be me and Mrs. Pineda looking at the Capitol as I have decided to seek reelection and continue our programs of good governance, ethical leadership and responsible citizenship."
Yes, Gov, as it was in 2007, the Pineda camp was focused on the Lapid camp again this time around – Senator Lito Lapid proclaiming in October his intent to seize the governorship anew until he opted (or was he co-opted?) to seek re-election.
Okay, so what does the candy wrapper say about the Panlilio mantra of “good governance, ethical leadership and responsible citizenship”?
Paying the His Life City Church P675,000 for a leadership and worship services seminar its youth arm conducted for the Capitol is good governance and ethical. The separation of Church and State be damned!
Attesting to the P13 million-plus net worth of the putative provincial administrator sans a single centavo for payment from the Capitol for all of 2008. This, vis-a-vis an income tax payment of P12,000 with a refund of over P3,000 is good governance and ethical.
Defying court orders to reinstate the provincial hospital head who was dismissed allegedly on the whim of the Office of the Governor is good governance and ethical.
Dismissing from the service proven performers like social welfare and development chief Luchie Gutierrez and the Balas Boys, hailed as the real heroes behind the tremendous increase in the quarry collections, is good governance and ethical leadership.
The list of instances of Panlilio’s brand of good governance and ethical leadership dating from his admonition to then acting Gov. Yeng Guiao that his was “only a caretaker government” and demanding a stoppage to all scheduled bidding, to his request for “blanket authority” in all Capitol deals that is good governance and ethical leadership.
“Hindi kami papayag na ibigay na lamang ng ganoon sa isang babaeng kandidata ang nasimulan namin ng walang kalaban-laban (We will not surrender without a fight what we have started to a woman candidate).”
Wow, for all his deference to his putative provincial administrator, the dispensation-seeking suspended priest is a certified male chauvinist. Women of Pampanga, unite!
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