LEADERSHIP, RESULT, INTEGRITY……
OUR COUNTRY NEEDS NOT JUST ANY CALL FOR CHANGE…
WE NEED LEADERS WHO HAAVE OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN REALLY BROUGHT POSITIVE AND CONCRETE CHANGE. NOT JUST RHETORIC…
THEIR RECORDS SPEAK FOR ITSELF AND SPEAK OF WHAT THEY CAN DO FOR OUR COUNTRY….ACTION WHAT WE NEED….REAL ACTIONS FOR REAL CHANGE.
GORDON-BAYANI 2010
Filipinos are very rational thinkers when it comes to politics and choosing leaders. Unfortunately they can be very irrational when it comes to making the final choice or decision.
Chances are you happen to be one of us.
You could be one of the many middle and upper class people who keep clamoring for political will and discipline but you won’t vote for the “Transformers”, namely Dick Gordon and Bayani Fernando, because they insist that you obey the law.
When Senator Richard Gordon and MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando announced their candidacy as President and Vice President respectively, the pundits and naysayers immediately branded them as the “dictators”.
Millions of Filipinos have directly and indirectly benefitted from the continuity and development of what started out as SBMA or the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority.
The Am-Boy of Olongapo did what needed to be done and got the job done. Sadly Filipinos tend to pay more attention to accusation rather than give recognition to achievement.
To this day drivers in Metro Manila still remember the “black Friday” when we were all trapped in a five-hour gridlock because traffic management and enforcement had completely failed.That has since become a thing of the past thanks to Bayani Fernando and the MMDA.
We have become more obedient of traffic laws, appreciative of having sidewalks, fences that prevent people from crossing highways and we have certainly become dependent on the various services of the MMDA.Gordon and Fernando have undoubtedly made many of us more appreciative of the law.
You like what they do but you don’t want to waste your vote on the unpopular. It’s YOUR vote remember? It’s not a group project or a Philippine campaign so some Pinoy or half-Pinay can with in American idol or CNN Hero of the year.
The reason “your kind of politician” needs to spend hundreds of millions in an election is because “You” abandon them. You believe in them but you betray them and then you ask why the wrong people got elected.
Martin Luther King once said: “the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict”.
I guess that’s why we have the Mindanao deep. We don’t choose to be neutral. We choose to be irrational! Make the change now. Don’t be afraid.
by Cito Beltran
Before Sen. Dick Gordon filed his certificate of candidacy for president on Tuesday, I was rooting for Noynoy Aquino.
But now I’m asking my readers and followers of my temporarily off-the-air radio and TV shows to take him seriously.
Gordon is the most qualified of all the candidates because he’s a tried and tested leader.
His biggest feat was transforming the former US Naval Base in Subic into a world-class economic zone, imposing discipline in the vast free trade zone.
Gordon is a leader whose heart bleeds for the downtrodden. His stint as chair of the Philippine National Red Cross proves this.
CHANGE NA!: Filipinos desperately looking for authentic agents of change cannot ignore the bursting upon the scene of the TRANSFORMERS.
They are Sen. Dick Gordon running for president, and ex-MMDA chairman Bayani Fernando for vice president. Both are no-nonsense action men who have shown political will to do right away what is right — even if not popular.
Gordon and Fernando filed their certificates of candidacy on the last day Tuesday under the banner of the Bagumbayan-Volunteers for a New Philippines party.
Gordon said: “Bayani and I are here to TRANSFORM this nation. What we’ve done for Subic and Marikina, we will do for the nation. What we’ve done during Pinatubo and Typhoon Ondoy, we will do for any province during a calamity. We have faced challenges and conquered them. The spirit of the Filipino has been tested and proven. We’ve built model cities, and we’ll build a model country where justice, peace and order will prevail.
“The time has come for action and results. This is a partnership of proven change, transformers of hearts and minds, builders of character and communities for a better Philippines. The future of our country is in our hands. Together, we can build a Bagumbayan.”
By Federico D. Pascual Jr
Let me say a few things about Dick Gordon, whom I’ve known for nearly 25 years, beginning when he was mayor of Olongapo City. He was the youngest, if I am correct, delegate to the Constitutional Convention when he was just a law student at the University of the Philippines. He served as mayor of his city, transforming it from sin city to a model city, then Tourism secretary (putting the Philippines on the world tourism destination map), then head of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA), then senator. At the SBMA, he was amazing, convincing Zambalenos to help rehabilitate the Mt. Pinatubo-damaged US military facility that the Americans so conveniently abandoned, and successfully enticing several multinational companies to make investments there. His chairing the Philippine National Red Cross shows his deep concern for victims of calamity, quick response to emergency and rehabilitation efforts. One thing that stands out about Dick is his sincerity in making things right. He authored the Amended Automated Elections system Law and the Tourism Act of 2009. Dick is running under the Bagumbayan-Volunteers for a New Philippines Party.
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Don’t vote for someone just because he or she is popular.
DJ Mojo Jojo, Magic 89.9
Surveys are useless to the Filipino voter
It seems we are being smothered by surveys, but are surveys of any real use or benefit to the actual voter?
As a voter, what you really need to base your decision on are the qualifications of the candidate and his/her platform of governance - if it is at all made available.
Surveys do not give out that sort of information. Surveys just say that one candidate is popular at the particular time that a survey is conducted.
Surveys are actually more useful for the candidate who must know how his or her campaign is doing. Say, for example, the candidate’s survey drops significantly or increases dramatically, the survey data can be correlated with elements of the candidate’s campaign. Through surveys, candidates can gain insight into what elements in his campaign are effective, ineffective, and counter-productive.
If his survey improves or dips and it is traced to an element like a new political ad, then it should guide the candidate’s decision on whether or not to pour more money into advertising.
Moreover, in cases where the candidate has a very good standing, publishing the results of very positive surveys gives the candidate a psychological advantage over his rivals who may have a lower ranking in the same survey.
In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell
Surveys are propaganda tools
Newspaper headlines and first gaps screaming that a candidate has topped one survey or another doesn’t just provide publicity for the candidate, it is gives the candidate an opportunity to project himself as the most probable winner of the electoral contest.
This, in effect, allows the candidate to claim victory long before the first ballot is actually cast. By constantly hammering on the claim of being the frontrunner of every survey through the media, the candidate can condition the minds of voters into believing he or she is the “sure winner” in the electoral contest. This helps create a bandwagon effect, which allows the candidate to tap the support of the less critically minded.
Choices are the hinges of destiny.
~Attributed to both Edwin Markham and Pythagoras
My advice: BE INFORMED
The quality of any decision depends on how well informed you are.
Perhaps it goes without saying that if you make a good decision, you’re bound to achieve good results. And in order to make a good decision, you need to figure out what your options are and then get as much information about each of the options available to you.
My good friend Magic 89.9 DJ Mojo Jojo says, don’t vote for someone just because he or she is popular. This is just like doing something because everybody else is doing it or joining a group just because everybody is joining. That’s not deciding for yourself, that’s allowing others to decide for you.
As it applies to the election in 2010, it is your responsibility as a voter to get to know about each candidate.
Don’t just vote for someone because some personal circumstance that they went through tugged at your heart or because their TV commercial repeatedly tells you that they will help the poor or whatever.
You have to be critical about every candidate, find out if they are telling YOU the truth by reading as much as you can about each candidate and seeing if their actions are consistent with their words.
Get to know more about what their qualifications are, look into their track record as public servants, find out about what they intend to do once they are in office, see if they’ve been involved in serious misdeeds in the past, and see if they can present a clear and credible plan for doing whatever they say they’ll do.
http://asiancorrespondent.com/paul-farol-pinoybuzz/surveys-as-propaganda
