22 May 2007 - 3:34 AM EDT
Name:
"anonymous"
I was in Carigara to attend the Alumni Homecoming. Because election was just around the corner after the alumni celebration, campaigning was the name of the game. I read a text message sent to a friend of mine that was shown to me and it read like this: "We will not accept defeat. We will do everything to win -- vote buying, coercion, military intervention if needed, etc ........" signed from the mouth of Trinidad Apostol (mother of Anlie, a mayor candidate).
Now, Anlie was re-elected because money was just flying everywhere especially in the farms where ignorant people that love money were easily bought. Of course, Anlie did not win in Carigara town proper. She got her votes from voters that she bought from the farm and from another mayor contender that ran solely for her -- to destroy the 3rd candidate. Do you think that money came from her own pocket? Think again!
What is happening to our beloved country that from top official to the lowest in rank, vote-buying is now the current trend. It's a fad. It's the fashion that ignorant people tend to follow. We are putting corrupt people in our government! We are putting people to office that do not perform but just enrich themselves from the people's money? The money that Trinidad Apostol and Anlie Apostol had used to buy votes did not come from their pockets? I don't believe that they will use their salaries to buy votes. If they rely on their salaries alone, the Apostols won't even be able to build a beautiful house in Boho, let alone the money used to pay voters ranging from 1,000 to 1,500 pesos! Anlie cannot travel to Australia with her girlfriend with just a salary of a mayor. Come on, think hard townsfolk of Carigara.
Carigaran-ons, why do you allow such a corrupt official to lead our town. Her heart is not for Carigara. She is from Barugo. She could care less what would happen to Carigara. The old market that she destroyed was more than enough to serve Carigara and it was still very sturdy and solidly strong. But Anlie had to create a "project" para may pagkunan siya ng mabubulsang pera. Anlie is so corrupt and a useless town official who knows nothing but steal people's money, yet the Carigaran-ons put her back to office. Why? Don't we have our own people from Carigara to run for office? Is there a brain drain in Carigara na kumuha pa kayo ng walang brain? Bakit nagpabili ang Carigaran-ons? Bakit?
I would have considered projects such as: (1) Build a college school in addition to HCCC; (2) Improve our tourism industry to attract balikbayans and other people from other towns and provinces; (3) Construct lodging places; (4) Construct a building where good restaurants, coffee shops, good eateries and gift shops can be installed so as to attract attendees of our yearly Alumni Homecoming.
Anlie can still steal money from the projects mentioned above but at least she would not have destroyed an existing, sturdy, solid concrete market that was affordable and flourishing. Anlie has no brains, hence, she could not think what is good for Carigara. Is that the kind of mayor that you want to install in Carigara? I don't know what happened to Trinidad Apostol in her thinking. She has turned a traitor to Carigaran-ons by letting her daughter run for mayor KNOWING PRETTY WELL that she is corrupt just like her. Both are trying to enrich themselves. Hindi naman nila madadala ang pera sa libingan. They will leave them all behind them, yet their souls will suffer in hell. Can they still live peacefully knowing that the whole town of Carigara is talking about their corrupt minds? Sana naman ma-consentia ang mga Apostol. Townsfolk of Carigara, think well and good. You are the ones to suffer.
