Last Sunday some brods and I were asked to go to Cavite to offer assistance to an alumni brod, Boying Remulla, in his congressional re-election bid. Though there are some issues wherein I don’t agree with Mr. Remulla, helping him was perfectly fine for me. Especially when his opponent is one of the President’s men, and that his propaganda have saturated the entire district. It felt quite tokenistic, though, since I doubt our giving out flyers to a handful of baranggays will have an impact.
I found it quite sad that a majority of the people whom we were handing flyers to always asked for something–cigarettes, candies, food, anything, when we didn’t have anything to give aside from the pieces of flyers. I guess people really have gotten so used to being given tokens and other such material and financial gifts during campaigns.
Amadeo, my father’s family’s hometown is part of Boying Remulla’s district. Though we skipped Amadeo, we did get to go around Maragondon, Silang, Indang, and Tagaytay. We spent some time at a forest resort with springs, pools and waterfalls in Indang that night. Then we had dinner and we stayed overnight in Tagaytay.
law student, leftist, national democratic, film school graduate, photography hobbyist
Dude, I have this feeling that you haven’t seen a real provincial campaign. It’s not all about guns, goons and gold in the provinces. A fourth G comes into play – GIN.
Boxes upon boxes of gin are shuttled off to various barangays to ensure a candidate’s win. That’s really messed up, eh? But everybody has to play the game to have a chance to win.
At least we had a fun road trip too. Hehe! Your photos are in my blog and Multiply.
Oh I see. That Boying. He regularly visits our school. If not for speeches, uhmm, donations are abundant.
His younger brother, Gilbert, runs in our district. Dasmariñas is part of 2nd district.
His activities? My mom and I are hired as watchers. But that would be tiresome. But… for 500 pesos? Goodie! Lol
Sa province nga namin, POSO ang ipinamimigay eh. Though sikreto lang talaga yon kasi kamag-anak ko ang napagbigyan. Haha.
natawa ako sa iyo HYRO.
yeah, ganyan nga bikoy. Namihasa ang bayan sa mga ‘abot’ ng kandidato.
Abot yosi, abot softdrink, abot anything.
HUh? Buti nga ganyan lang sa inyo sa amin nha eh Php 200 kada boto..
Hyro, natawa naman din ako dun..poso..kumusta naman yun..
huling na-amaze nga ako ay namimigay na ng call card ang mga kandidato eh..ngayon may poso na pala
Nakakatawa nga pero totoo yon. Ang binigay talaga eh yung poso mismo. Walang tubo at panghukay sa ilalim para magkatubig. As in yung poso.
Ewan ko nga lang kung paano ginamit ng tita ko yon. Ooops nabisto.
Hindi na mawawala sa atin yang may pamigay na ganyan. Since nagkabotohan ata sa bansa natin meron nang ganyan. Kaya naniniwala ako sa sinabi ni Ate Vi, “Pag may nag-abot, tanggapin lang. Pero iboto ang kursonada”.
By the way, Chico, salamat sa pagbisita sa blog! paano nga ba ako magiging guestblogger?
Sa amin 500 Pesos… sa election eve pa ibibigay… hehe
haha kunin nyo yung iaabot pero huwag nyo iboto.. tutal nanggagamit sila gamitin nyo rin. (^^,)
Sad to say, it is all about money…
It seems that some politicians are giving 2000 pesos for a vote…