Isabela’s Padaca leaves behind P2 billion BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 06/13/2010

Isabela’s Padaca leaves behind P2 billion

BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 06/13/2010 If there is anything the people of Isabela province should remember outgoing Gov. Grace Padaca for, it is the virtue of thrift. And guess what. The main beneficiary of this exemplary trait of hers is third-term Rep. Faustino Dy III of the 3rd district, the man who trounced her in the gubernatorial race during the May 10 polls. During the televised weekly public affairs program “Meet the Press” of the National Press Club, Governor-elect Dy graciously conceded that his predecessor Padaca, whom he had edged out by an ultra-slim margin of 3,438 votes from a universe of 546,076 voters, had left behind a hefty bank balance amounting to some P2 billion which he admitted would definitely come in handy as he pursues the implementation of his master plan to bring his notoriously backward province into the 21st century. Ironically, Padaca’s stinginess with money or more precisely her reluctance to dip her fingers into the public purse is what may have cost her the province’s governorship. Padaca’s defeat at the hands of Congressman Dy, who comes from a political dynasty which has ruled Isabela since 1963 when the family patriarch Faustino Dy Sr. was first appointed Cauayan town councilor by President Diosdado Macapagal due to a vacancy, is said to be a direct result of her failure to provide funds for health benefits of bona fide residents of the province.... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100613com4.html

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