To continue our coverage for the May 2007 polls, here are seven questions which hopefully would help us determine whether our politicians are too powerful for our own good. If they are too powerful, then maybe it’s about time to vote for other candidates.
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Are we on a roll or what? Here’s another kailiyan who is joining our List of Achievers. Actually, we should have posted this story earlier but it took us some time to find a picture of Councilor Henry Kipas. Anyway the Councilor, who comes from La-Trinidad, Benguet, was recently named as one of the Ten Outstanding Councilors of the Philippines, an annual search by the Junior Chamber International Philippines or the Philippine Jaycees.
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We have been quite busy these last two weeks so we have not had a weekly roundup on Cordillera affairs as we did in the previous weeks. Anyways, to make up for that, we decided to do a round-up on what’s being said in the blogosphere.
If your spouse leaves you, files for divorce and marries in the U.S. can you file a bigamy case against him/her? Who will win in Kalinga’s congressional race? What would you do if a cement company builds roads to your barangay but destroys your mountains? Are you planning to watch the movie “300” but don’t know whether it is a good one?
In case you are wondering how much your incumbent Congressman is worth, you are lucky because we have the figures for you. However, please note that these figures may have changed because they are based on the Congressmen’s 2004 Statements of Assets and Liabilities (SAL) filed during the beginning of their current congressional term. Still, we have to make do with these figures in the absence of more recent SALs from our Representatives.
So who’s the richest Congressman from the Cordilleras? Apayao Rep. Elias Bulut Jr. with a net worth of P21.7 million. And the poorest? Assassinated Abra Congressman Luis Bersamin with a net worth of “only” P2.45 million.
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Update (07 April 2007): The list of candidates for the Kalinga gubernatorial race which you will find below should no longer include Rommel Diasen; the incumbent Kalinga vice governor who is gunning for the gubernatorial seat in this coming elections has been killed today. You can read the details here.
Continue reading Cordillera Election Roundup: Run Lola Run, Here Comes John