Resign NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 06/18/2010

Resign

NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 06/18/2010 Heaven knows the number of times this lola made the call here for the Inglorious One to do so, but she never did, not even after the public release of the “Hello Garci” recordings which indubitably showed numbers were manipulated to make it appear she won in 2004 over Fernando Poe Jr., “So will I still lead by one million?… ‘yung dagdag, ‘yung dagdag!” Wags said the problem there was how to make someone who was never really elected officially leave a post not hers to begin with. Jokes like these were cracked in the gazillion rallies mounted to make her go but I never thought it funny, not even the one that had her manikurista supposedly complaining “Wala nang kuko si Ma’am, napudpod, kakakapit sa puwesto.” Especially as in real life that manikurista, by the name of Anita Carbon, also constant traveling companion and part of Gloria Arroyo’s sisterhood of the traveling pants to here and there of the globe, got appointed trustee of the government-run Home Development Mutual Fund of the Philippines, or the Pag-ibig Fund, which enables members to acquire suitable housing through an efficient savings system. As trustee, Carbon was to get a monthly compensation of a little over a hundred thousand pesos, for a fixed two-year term.  Exactly what she was going to do in the board is perhaps what scared her, for in the end she decided not to accept the designation, no matter she was to “represent the poor,” according to her female Bossing. Buti pa si Carbon, at nagdalang-hiya, hindi naniwala sa kanyang supposedly being kinatawan ng mahirap. Hearing that from the woman who looked down on FPJ for being merely an artista must have been a little bit too much for Carbon to believe. I have no love lost for the Pagcor’s Efraim Genuino, or johnny-come-lately at the Cultural Center Carmencita Pedrosa, but they voluntarily gave up their respective offices and for that they must be recognized, no matter the real reasons for their leaving.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100618com4.html

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