LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Municipal Councilor Joe Ferrer confirmed here recently a growing clamor for Gov. Victor Agbayani to run for the congressional seat in the province’s second district.
Ferrer said he has been in touch with several district leaders in recent days “and the consensus is that the governor enjoys tremendous popularity which should make the other would be aspirants to reconsider their plan to run for the same post.”
In an interview on Wednesday with ABS-CBN reporters, Agbayani said his wife, Jamie, is definitely running for governor either as official candidate of Lakas-CMD or as an independent candidate.
At the same time, he said, he is seriously considering the clamor of leaders for him to run for the second district congressional seat in the event the incumbent solon guns for another elective position. Read more
Digest Rhee-ports by RHEE Fer HORTALEZA
‘COMELEC ready for the elections’ – headline. I just hope that doesn’t mean ‘ready to cheat’, ha, Garci?
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Everyone was shocked when Sangguniang Panlalawigan Member Robert ‘Eskimo’ M. Estrella, Jr. said that someone will face his supposedly unopposed brother Conrad in the 6th district congressional battle. But everyone laughed amusedly when he stated that the ‘foe will be their grandfather, the venerable Conrado ‘Lakay Condring’ F. Estrella, Sr.!
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‘Gov’t steps up promotion of RP as retirement destination for Japanese’ — newshead. Here’s hoping that it doesn’t mean ‘permanent’ retirement for those Japs! Read more
DAGUPAN CITY - Pangasinan proves to be an administration bailiwick as nine of its senatorial candidates are being favored by the voters for the coming May elections, based on a survey conducted by a reputable Manila polling firm.
Using two survey methods provincewide, face-to-face/house-to-house and campus mock poll, PROBERZ CONSULTANCY conducted survey on March 12-13 that showed its 9-3 in favor of Team Unity candidates in Pangasinan.
In the house to house method, the top 12, according to their ranking are: re-electionist Manny Villar, tie for number two and three are Mike Defensor and re-electionist Ralph Recto, Francis Escudero was fourth, sharing 5 and 6 slots are Tito Sotto, Loren Legarda, Miguel Zubiri and Tessie Oreta, ranking 8 and 9 are Prospero Pichay, Alan Peter Cayetano and Chavit Singson, number 10 is Vic Magsaysay, re-electionist Francis Pangilinan is number 11, while slots 12 and 13 are re-electionist Joker Arroyo, Sonia Roco, Noynoy Aquino and re-electionist Edgardo Angara. Read more
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan - Six towns and one city have been taggd by the Philippine National Police as areas of concern in Pangasinan in connectin with the coming election.
Senior Superintendent Alan Purisima, police provincial director, identified these places as Natividad, San Carlos City, Tayug, Binmaley, Bugallon, San Nicolas and San Manuel.
These were pinpointed as possible areas where violence may erupt at a coordinating conference between the PNP and the Commission on Electins here last Wednesday.
Purisima said the Comelec personnel were spearheaded in the meeting by lawyer Reddy Balarbar, provincial elections supervisor in Pangasinan while he for the PNP.
Both the police and the Comelec tagged the seven places as areas of concern based on records of incidents in the past 2004 election. Read more
From the Saltbeds by Restituto C. Basa
THE election campaign is on; the start of the filing of candidacy is on January 15.
Among the first to announce his candidacy for senator is Health Secretary Francisco Tiongson Duque III. He will be an administration candidate.
I hope the Pangasinan electorate will cross party lines to vote for him. As presently constituted, there is not a single Pangasinense in this senate.
We need at least one kaluyagan in the Upper House. If we could have two, so much the better.
I am endorsing the candidacy of Pincoy Duque for senator, not just because he is a kaluyagan. I have a deep attachment to the Duques. Read more
‘LAKAS has no gubernatorial bet as yet — Speaker JdV’ — headline. Now, if it turns out later that there is an oversupply of bets for the administration, it should just juggle the letters of LAKAS and come up with parties like AKLAS or KALAS or SAKAL for all of them; or just add one letter to form ALASKA dahil “ang dami namang pulitikong nanga-ALASKA rin lang!”
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Sangguniang Panlalawigan Member Danilo C. Uy was virtually given a clean bill of health during the commitee hearing of the SP to ferret out the truth in the claim of spurious newspapers Banat and Upak that he is a drug lord. All right, to the tune of Paruparong Bukid, let’s sing:
“Masaya si Danny… UY!
Hindi raw siya drug lord… UY!
Kahit binanatan, kahit inupakan;
Malinis si Danny…. UY!
Kahit manalamin… UY!
Ang napatunayan:
Banat — sinungaling! Read more
DAGUPAN CITY - Three towns and one city in Pangasinan had already been tagged by the Provincial Elections Office at this early as possible hot spots in the coming elections.
Provincial Elections Supervisor Reddy Balarbar expressed the possibility of recommending one of those towns to be placed under Commission on Elections control.
Reddy Balarbar identified this town as San Nicolas, located in the sixth district of Pangasinan, tagged as the post sensitive area of Pangasinan due to its history of political violence in the past.
At the same time, Balarbar foresees hot election contests in the towns of Binmaley in the second district, San Fabian in the fourth district and San Carlos City in the third district. Read more
DAGUPAN CITY - The Commission on Elections is not satisfied with the turnout of voters’ registration nationwide.
This was revealed by Dagupan City Election Officer Remarque Ravanzo even as he said that the poll body has come up with a measure to remedy the situation.
Ravanzo, a lawyer, said the Commission has promulgated Comelec Resolution No. 7684 ordering the conduct of registration on Sundays in offices of election officers nationwide, including three municipalities in the National Capital Region. Read more
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PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said she hoped to “break the back” of the communist insurgency in the Philippines by the end of her term in 2010. Others, however, hope to “break the term” of GMA before 2010!
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‘Bill seeks life term for sex with the dead’ - newshead. What? No life term, too, for sex with a ‘dead’ weapon? Hehehe….
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GMA visited China. No, she didn’t go there to ask the Chinese why Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Saplan Lim - who is half-Filipino and half-Chinese - seemingly does not like her!
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‘Pinoys asked to be heroes for the nation’ - newshead. Well, that should be the case; but what is actually happening now, is that many Pinoys are ‘terrors’ of the nation or, worse, ‘errors’ of the nation!
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The bulk of the 17,000 new nurses in the leakage-tainted nursing board exam finally took their oaths. Those who were ordered to retake the examinations are now nursing woes, nursing grudges, nursing hatred and nursing wounds.
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‘Pangasinan Comelec ready for 2007 elections’ - newshead. I hope it doesn’t mean ‘ready’ to cheat, ha?
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Celebrities are allegedly more in love with themselves than the average person is. Hmmm, that makes me just an average person, I suppose.
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‘Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging’ - newshead. Out there, there are corrupt politicians and public officials whose sentence to suffer this same fate has been adroitly avoided by them.
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From the Saltbeds by Restituto C. Basa
THIS year, circa 2006, Lingayen bids to become a city. Rep. Amado Tutaan Espino, Jr. will sponsor the city charter in Congress. If there is any Lingayen leader who deserved to become first city mayor, it is Ernesto ‘Jonas’ Castaneda, Jr.
He and his wife, Josefina, has been ruling Lingayen from 1992 to the present (2006). Josefina was mayor from 2001-2004.
What have the husband and wife team done to deserve their continuous hold of power? Read more
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