Category Archives: Government
More Election 2007 News
Here are some links just in case you would like to read more election-related news from the Cordillera boondocks.
Fun stuff:
You see! All that coin tossing you did as a kid is valuable after all. To decide who between two candidates with the same number of votes would sit in the Bontoc municipal council, our favorite COMELEC officer Mary Umaming tossed a coin and Brian Bellang, who chose heads, won. Story by Desiree Caluza here.
Congratulations to Brian. Our condolence to the one who lost, Benjamin Ngeteg. This practice is, of course, provided by law but we still kinda feel sorry for Benjamin. Maybe our lawmakers can come up with a more equitable way of breaking ties like this. What about equal vote-getters splitting the term? Let’s give them each a chance to sit in the council (or in any other elective position).
List of Winners: Cordillera Region
Something weird is going on with Blogger/Blogspot because it no longer allows changes in previous posts, thus we can no longer add updates to the provincial results. Because of this, we are putting the most recent results from the Cordilleras here in a common post. These updates are courtesy of the bibaknets-yahoogroup forwarded to us by one of its members.
Mt Province Election Roundup: Incumbents Rule!
Incumbents Dominguez, Dalog win in Mt Province
By Gina Dizon (visit their blog, the Northern Philippine Times)
Mountain Province has another three years of political leadership with incumbent 30-year congressman Victor Dominguez who won over his nephew, mayor Jupiter Dominguez by 5,609 votes and his relative, Engr. Arnulfo Pilando by 9,158 votes in the recent May 14 elections. All three candidates come from the municipality of Sabangan.
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Imaginary Quotes: The Lighter Side of Cordillera Politics
We’ve been too serious here lately so we’re coming up with a “lighter side” post. Help us make this “funner” by sharing your “lighter side” thoughts in the comments section.
Initially, we are coming up with imaginary quotes that we are attributing to our politicians from the Cordilleras. Since these are imaginary quotes, the politicians actually didn’t say these things. Galing lang ito sa aming aktibong imahinasyon. If you are the politician to whom an imaginary quote is falsely attributed, please don’t sue us. Surely you have a sense of humor.
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