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LGUs and accountability C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 03/22/2011

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

LGUs and accountability

C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S
Jonathan De la Cruz
03/22/2011
Surprises never end under the P-Noy administration. Just when everybody thought that the reported bitter rivalry between the so-called Balay and Samar factions has somewhat ebbed we are once again receiving messages about its resurgence. This time, nastier and more intense. The evidence? The nasty give-and-take over the role of Dr. James Dy and his group in the resolution of the Taiwan issue which was apparently pooh-poohed by the Balay group as preposterous. One observer who must have Samar sympathies even volunteered information that the Balay group’s leader, former Senator and Chief Presidential Troubleshooter Mar Roxas, was overheard as saying that victory has a thousand fathers or words to that effect during one of the press conferences announcing the end of the Taiwan problem. Earlier, Executive Secretary Jojo Ochoa’s alleged ownership of the unfinished White Plains “glass house” was nursed and blown out of proportion by what his Samar supporters suspect were Balay loyalists. And the list of slights, innuendoes and special operations between loyalists of both sides get longer by the day..... MORE

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