Putting Velasco in a short leash
Posted on July 5, 2007 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Eduardo Pontaoe
5 July 2007
Mayor Reynaldo V. Velasco:
From the get go, I would like to extend our warmest regards here in the US and around the world in your being mayor of our town Santa Barbara.
Now, you’re in a new ballgame which you should know by now, is so different from the profession you’d grown up with. Your inaugural address is the manifesto of what you will do for a town that has been in a chaotic and traumatic position under that farrago and muddled Zaplan. It could be a new era of honest governance, an IV to bring the town to life, an expurgation of what went wrong and like the blossoming a flower in need of a much needed rain.
Easier said than done, Mr. Mayor. The next 365 days . . . not hundred days . . . I give you that, will be trying days if this vision of yours would come to fruition or it will become just a candle in the wind blown by non-performance and just become evanescence on what the Barbarians expect.
I was there during the election to savor your victory. I believed you can do great things for the town, to uplift the well being of the people that your politics is not of diffidence but of the verisimilitude of your persona.
We expected that promises you promised should be fulfilled to the very word you espoused. We know you cannot deliver everything, but 70% of what could be delivered is more than enough. Still, we will put you in a short leash.
What really excited us to euphoria is your assurance that you will pursue legal action to those who have their hands full in the town’s kitty. I won’t mention here who were those allegedly did the plundering of Santa Barbara’s treasury. You should bring the full force of the law to these thieves and have their day in court. If proven guilty they should forfeit their ill-gotten wealth and do time at the same time.
Jueteng shall be eradicated from people’s lives and the scourge of youth – Shabu – should be expunged completely from the streets.
About how you administer the day to day business of the town, you should not leave everything to your subordinates . . . I meant don’t empower completely . . . it’s the harbinger of things to come.
Some people say, you’re like a horse with blinders, being a military man, that you only see one direction.
We will give you the benefit of the doubt and may our beloved town Santa Barbara - at last – at least could breathe that fresh air long time acoming.
Here’s a dictum for your consumption. To wish success in politics, promise everything, deliver nothing . . . Napoleon Bonaparte
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