Monday, January 29, 2007 Seares: Spurned politicos By Pachico A. Seares News Sense
REJECTION, in love or politics, stings, though heat and style of response from the jilted differ.
A spurned suitor can moan in private but mustn’t publicly show it. Everybody loves a lover but not a whining one. Totally un-cool.
A politico failing to win a runningmate is similarly wounded. Maybe worse, because he must show face to a perverse public that watches him up close, not unlike prying cameras on Globe or Oscar losers immediately after the winner is named.
Coping with rejection
How did recently rejected politicians take it?
Mandaue ex-mayor Pedong Ouano courted Jonas Cortes to run as his grandson Jonkie’s vice mayor. Jonas instead will run for mayor in a rival ticket. Pedong says: “Let him be. He’s seeking greener pastures.” But not without whiplashing infidelity: “I hope he won’t be as fickle-minded in the future.”
Cordova Mayor Arleigh Sitoy is bitter that his pa Ade will have to fight for the mayor’s seat against Vice Mayor Danny Sinugbuhan, the protege they had groomed as politician (and just treated to a presumably food-and-song feast in Davao). Arleigh doesn’t scream “Ingrate!” but an Ade-Danny debate he proposes includes the topic “Value of Gratitude.”
Talisay Mayor Soc Fernandez is not yet cast aside for Eddie Gullas’ son Didi but he has already said he’ll accept the congressman’s word. No open rancor from Brod Soc. He may even say, Praise the Lord!
