Oca's options
DEAD ON the spot or dead on arrival.
So some political seer of sorts presented – oh, so morbidly – the electoral choices open to the term-ending City of San Fernando Mayor Oscar S. Rodriguez in 2013.
Between the Sahara Desert – for the devil, and the Marianas Trench – for the deep blue sea.
So seconded the Zaldy Ampatuan deadringer among local mediamen.
Qualify, I asked them.
Stalemated is Oca politically. In the game of dama, he is what is said to be mekuchi.
On one hand, if Oca so chose to run for governor – as he is known to have long desired – he would most surely be ran over by the irresistible force that is the incumbent Gov. Lilia G. Pineda.
There simply is no way for Oca – or for anyone else, P-Noy not excluded – to beat Nanay Baby.
Her signal accomplishments: a) the quarry collections of P383.5 million from her first day in office in July 2010 to the end of January 2012; b) the rehabilitation, repair and construction of the Pampanga’s provincial and district hospitals and the upgrading of health services; c) the provision of vehicles and communication equipment to the police forces, as well as the coming repair of the police stations; d) the extension of lowest-interest loans to micro-entrepreneurs, among other programs, have made the governor electorally formidable.
Her cornucopia of generosity to her constituency has made the governor politically invincible.
Go, challenge her, and weep.
On the other hand, if Oca opted to try to regain his former seat in the House, he would most certainly crash against the immovable object that is Dong Gonzales.
So how many thousand kids Dong sends to and keeps in school? How many kilometers of roads and bridges, school buildings and markets, covered courts and flood control systems has Dong caused to be erected? After all is said and some things undone, Dong did not get from the GMA administration over P700 million in priority development assistance fund – in but a single term – for nothing.
Then there’s Dong’s mini-Marshall Plan that is the Bacolor Rehabilitation Act…
Dead on the spot against Nanay Baby. Dead on arrival versus Dong. Either way Oca’s politically dead?
Deader than dead. So Zaldy Ampatuan’s look-alike pronounced.
So sorry, your analyses of Oca’s premature political death are not only grossly exaggerated but also utterly prejudiced, extremely subjective.
Now it’s your turn to qualify, they ordered me.
If Oca runs for governor, he can have an ally in Dong.
For one, Dong’s Nationalist People’s Coalition is coalesced with Oca’s Liberal Party. So, no sleeping with the enemy here.
Two, Dong – grateful to his godfather for not running against him – may put his own political machinery to Oca’s service, may share his storied formidable war chest with Oca.
On the other hand, if Oca runs for congressman, he can have a patron in Nanay Baby. And patronage ever crisscrosses political lines.
Gratitude – along with sincerity – is a core value of the governor. Of course, she will be most grateful to Oca for avoiding a collision course with her. And that gratefulness will most assuredly directly translate to tangible support.
As you can see now, the dead-on-the-spot or dead-on-arrival zero-sum situation you damned Oca in may not, indeed, does not obtain in a political triangulation.
In fact, with but a single movement, a win-all for Nanay Baby, Dong and Oca is granted high probability.
How?
Engage Oca and Dong in the kid’s game of marbles – exchange positions: Dong to the mayorship and Oca to the House.
An untenable proposition!
The fixity of your subjectivity has closed your mind to the praxis of politics as the art of the possible.
The choice is Oca’s, of course. And Dong’s too. With Nanay Baby – already chosen – hardly bothered here.
So some political seer of sorts presented – oh, so morbidly – the electoral choices open to the term-ending City of San Fernando Mayor Oscar S. Rodriguez in 2013.
Between the Sahara Desert – for the devil, and the Marianas Trench – for the deep blue sea.
So seconded the Zaldy Ampatuan deadringer among local mediamen.
Qualify, I asked them.
Stalemated is Oca politically. In the game of dama, he is what is said to be mekuchi.
On one hand, if Oca so chose to run for governor – as he is known to have long desired – he would most surely be ran over by the irresistible force that is the incumbent Gov. Lilia G. Pineda.
There simply is no way for Oca – or for anyone else, P-Noy not excluded – to beat Nanay Baby.
Her signal accomplishments: a) the quarry collections of P383.5 million from her first day in office in July 2010 to the end of January 2012; b) the rehabilitation, repair and construction of the Pampanga’s provincial and district hospitals and the upgrading of health services; c) the provision of vehicles and communication equipment to the police forces, as well as the coming repair of the police stations; d) the extension of lowest-interest loans to micro-entrepreneurs, among other programs, have made the governor electorally formidable.
Her cornucopia of generosity to her constituency has made the governor politically invincible.
Go, challenge her, and weep.
On the other hand, if Oca opted to try to regain his former seat in the House, he would most certainly crash against the immovable object that is Dong Gonzales.
So how many thousand kids Dong sends to and keeps in school? How many kilometers of roads and bridges, school buildings and markets, covered courts and flood control systems has Dong caused to be erected? After all is said and some things undone, Dong did not get from the GMA administration over P700 million in priority development assistance fund – in but a single term – for nothing.
Then there’s Dong’s mini-Marshall Plan that is the Bacolor Rehabilitation Act…
Dead on the spot against Nanay Baby. Dead on arrival versus Dong. Either way Oca’s politically dead?
Deader than dead. So Zaldy Ampatuan’s look-alike pronounced.
So sorry, your analyses of Oca’s premature political death are not only grossly exaggerated but also utterly prejudiced, extremely subjective.
Now it’s your turn to qualify, they ordered me.
If Oca runs for governor, he can have an ally in Dong.
For one, Dong’s Nationalist People’s Coalition is coalesced with Oca’s Liberal Party. So, no sleeping with the enemy here.
Two, Dong – grateful to his godfather for not running against him – may put his own political machinery to Oca’s service, may share his storied formidable war chest with Oca.
On the other hand, if Oca runs for congressman, he can have a patron in Nanay Baby. And patronage ever crisscrosses political lines.
Gratitude – along with sincerity – is a core value of the governor. Of course, she will be most grateful to Oca for avoiding a collision course with her. And that gratefulness will most assuredly directly translate to tangible support.
As you can see now, the dead-on-the-spot or dead-on-arrival zero-sum situation you damned Oca in may not, indeed, does not obtain in a political triangulation.
In fact, with but a single movement, a win-all for Nanay Baby, Dong and Oca is granted high probability.
How?
Engage Oca and Dong in the kid’s game of marbles – exchange positions: Dong to the mayorship and Oca to the House.
An untenable proposition!
The fixity of your subjectivity has closed your mind to the praxis of politics as the art of the possible.
The choice is Oca’s, of course. And Dong’s too. With Nanay Baby – already chosen – hardly bothered here.
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