bwa ha ha ha….dear jean, it seems padaca will never do any good for us isabelinos because you seem to contend that dy is the be-all and end-all of our beloved province. we might be clamoring for things that are way beyond padaca or anyone of us. the whole system sucks, kumare. and padaca is just one of those brave few who dared to conquer the brothers. what have the dys done? infra? services? those infrastructures built during their term are not built because of they are good hearted and truly for the people – they were built (inutang) because were intended to be milked by kamag-anak incorporated. substandard naman lahat. madaling mabakbak. anakngputra! and nothing is left in the coffers! that is bad governance! spending beyond means had been dy’s legacy.

but then, padaca should overcome difficulties. three years would be enough for study, experiments and paying dy’s heavy debts. time to pay back.

i commend padaca for her democratic governance, her weekly ugnayan but she could do more – maybe do some pulong-pulong sa mga baryo and be felt.

ok din ang health card expansion but mas ok kung dagdagan ng libreng medisina sa mga rural health centers. i still can’t forgive the dys for the closure of smaller hospitals just so he could distribute health cards. Papogi lang yon. Much better if the hospitals would have enough medicines kahit man lang pang-emergency, madagdagan ng laboratory equipment, at masuportahan muli ng kapitolyo ang mga maliliit na ospital. those units are not suppose to earn anyway. they are suppose to deliver health services to those who have been deprived of such govt services. so go on, buhusan ng pondo. so much for the sins of omission and commission (isama mo na ang lagay) ng mga dys.

dahil naitayo naman na ang mga schools (di ba zero backlog nga si dys, totoo nga ba? naiutang na ni dy ang budget ng education for the next ten years!) then funds for local school board teachers must be upgraded – dagdagan ang suweldo. natl got had been remiss in providing quality education to our children, then padaca might as well hire more but pay more to these poor teachers who receive only P3,000 a mo! gawin nang minimum wage na 12,000 a mo!

agriculture – very good din ang paggamit ng mga traktora ng kapitolyo but then, kulang pa.

corruption – wala nang macorrupt, ha ha ha, matalino ang mga dy eh. naisangla na nga ang kaban. noon, sila ang proponent, sila ang bidder, sila ang contractor at evaluator. matuk mo, jean? ngayon, wala na yon eh, lahat nakatingin. prove one and i will rally behind you. with evidence lang, i don’t patronize hearsays.

marami pa. padaca has put us in the map of new politics. am proud of being an isabelino once again. ang mahirap, we don’t seem top appreciate it. parang numb na ang utak natin sa corruption ng mga dy and had become a natural phenomenon. inured na tayo sa mafia-style dy leadership. kasi galante yon. as against padaca na kuripot. siguro dahil auditor siya hano? ha ha ha. anyway, ok na ang kuripot kaysa sa kurakot.

maam grace, joke lang ha ha ha.

caution: naku, may conspiracy nga yata sa kapitolyo. lahat ng mga nariyan save for so few (mabibilang sa daliri) ang loyal kay grace. mula DOH personnel, DECs, at mga kawani na nabusog noon, galit kay Grace. Kahit nga sa loob ng staff niya yata – masusungit sila kaya tuloy kay Grace nagagalit ang tao. Kailangan may temper management at GMRC yata sa staff ng kapitolyo. loyalty check kaya. ho hum. i suspect nga si jean, taga kapitolyo yan eh. jean ha? i love you jean!

as far as I am concerned, it’s not about loyalty as I do not consider myself loyal to either of the two. It is more about change and progress that they (Dy) somehow fail to deliver in their 30-year reign.

peace.

for what it is worth, i was just wondering also how padaca was able to win your loyalty. anyway, i am not a dy loyalist. i was just wondering, with all these ideals and seeming good deeds of padaca, you cannot mention anything concrete still.

i do want to be convinced but people are missing the point of the discussion. it was not meant to disuade but more importantly, it was meant to open the avenue for a more intellectual and realistic discussion.

And congratulations to all other Isabelinos out there. Panalo!

I agree with you. All of those anomalies that were thrown against Padaca are purely black propaganda. If Jean asks me what Padaca has accomplished in 3 years, I will say that she is building honest governance. Good governance starts by eradicating the system prone to graft and corruption which ‘insider” has eleborated. That doesnt happen overnight. The achievements may not yet be visible but great things start from below. She is on the right track as she did away with the DYnasty’s old system wherein only their cronies and dummies were rewarded with million peso projects.

From what I have analyzed on Jean’s comment, it seems to me that she is a DY loyalist, and die hard loyalists like her can never be pleased by someone who have trounced her demigods.

Isabela’s Non-dynasty Detour

If this won’t address anything on your question, I don’t know what will. If not satisfied, then be it, it’s your prerogative. Also, it seems to me you don’t care if we have an anomalous provincial government before. You just want them to come back. For what?

If there are really any anomalies in Padaca’s time as you have told, I hope this can be proven, too, and not just hearsays/political propaganda generated by other’s camp.

You should also take note that the DYs incurred 750 million debt for the province for their projects which were anomalously anomalously awarded to contractors who are known to be their dummies. In the Ilagan Hospital for instance, the contractor of the overpriced elevator and paging system was awarded to Ben Dy’s son. The free medicine that the DYs were bragging about were supplied to the province by a company known to be owned by a dummy of Jun Dy. There were no biddings involved and hence they were able to manipulate the costs being paid by the provincial government. There are tons of papers that could prove this and other anomalies.

jean, thank you also for the comment and i also respect your view on the matter.

re: media. both parties has been using the media now, padaca is not the only one using it. they are both using these to prove their allegations of cheating so i don’t see something wrong with it. i will be even more suspicious if there was a news blackout on the incidents happen. all right, everyone can cheat, but who has the capacity of doing so is another matter.

as for what has grace padaca done in her three years as governor, i hope this article (http://www.pcij.org/i-report/2007/padaca.html) can help US see what she has done (or not done) as a governor for three years. and compare it to what has the 3 Dys done in three decades.

and yes, there is more to just defeating the the dynasty. the battle is just continuing.