Up, Up and Away!

Why spend a ton of money getting showbiz personalities to endorse your campaign when you can just as easily ride on the popularity of everyone's favorite heroes for practically nothing? Unless of course DC Comics gets a whiff of this apparent breach of copyright.

I wonder what the candidate's slogan is. Truth, Justice and the Quezon City way?

I like the poster so much that I might just vote for the dummy. The one with a cape, that is.

Is that you, Jinggoy?

Is the Erap camp really lacking in funds that it now has to resort to using really old photos of the former president for its campaign posters? This photo looks like it was taken thirty years ago. Probably for a movie. He really looks like Kumander Alibasbas here.

Here Erap also looks like Jinggoy ten years ago. Before he lost all that weight. And all the pomada.

Learn from your son, Mr. Ex-President. Get rid of the old photos. Shed off the old macho guapito look. 

You'll look much better. More dignified. More wise. 

Kung Ako ang Tatanungin. Siya Na Nga!

The Gilmore Boys

I call them the Gilmore Boys. Those yellow-clad traffic enforcers who instead of directing traffic in the busy intersections along E. Rodriguez Avenue in New Manila, Quezon City, choose to position themselves several meters past the intersections, many times hiding behind posts or trees.

They're not there to help with traffic. They're there to apprehend as many violators as they can and extort them to death.

And who said a government job did not pay well?

Grumpy Old Man

I find it ironic --- and very sad --- that in his attempt to prevent one senator from being censured for violating "the Code of Conduct of Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees, and for engaging in improper and unethical conduct that damaged the integrity of the Senate" Senator Nene Pimentel resorted to name-calling and making vulgar remarks about a colleague's wife. 


That in itself is conduct unbecoming of a senator. 


Pimentel should be censured.

I will never ever vote for Mike Defensor, but please, Mr. Mayor, level the playing field!

Here's Councilor Vincent Belmonte's latest poster. It came up a few days ago in time for today's commemoration of the feast of the Black Nazarene. And in all places, his minions decide to post one right beside his uncle's, the mayor's, warning against political propaganda.

That's audacity for you. That's pure arrogance. And that's down right bullying.

All from the powerful Belmonte clan that includes 1) the incumbent mayor who is now running for his old congressional seat; 2) the mayor's daughter who is running for vice mayor and two nephews -- including Vincent -- who are running for re-election as councilors.

For while an obscure 1990 city ordinance that the mayor's office conveniently resurrected justifies the tearing down of their political opponents' materials, no government street cleaner would dare take down the posters and banners and greetings the Belmonte camp continue to post everywhere possible.

Shameless, indeed.

Paging Senators Aquino and Roxas. It's time you police your ranks. Not all so-called Liberals are worth voting for.

Ways to Win an Election # 1: Take Advantage of Your Position

This sign came up early this week. After more than a year of endless banners and posters all over the city, the City passes an ordinance prohibiting the display of such paraphernalia  in major roads and streets.

And like true civil servants, the city street cleaners swooped down the streets and tore down the banners of Defensor, Susano, Lagman and almost everyone else.

Everyone's that is except those of the mayor's anointed successor and his running mate who happens to be the mayor's daughter, and of course, the mayor himself who is running for Congress.

I guess being in power has its privileges.

Sad.