Bzzzzz: No split: Rama, Labella to be ‘husband-wife’ team

EITHER OR.Nothing has changed since former Cebu City mayor Mike Rama announced that he’d run for mayor, congressman or vice mayor in next year’s election. What seems to have increased is his confidence that Barug Team Rama would fare better than it did in the 2016 race, which he lost.

In yesterday’s interview on dyCM radio (“Frangkahay Ta,” with Atty. Ellie Espinoza and Titus Borromeo), one could gather from a thicket of the ex-mayor’s prose:

[] he might run for mayor but would settle for vice mayor or a House seat, under a system of coordination that he and Vice Mayor Edgar Labella have set up between them;

[] in no case would he and Labella be running for mayor, so as not to split Barug Team Rama.

Couple’s rule

HOOK-UP. They would be a couple, a husband-and-wife team, with the difference that either Mike Rama or Edgar Labella would be the husband or the wife.

The metaphor, or simile if you prefer, means Mike could run for mayor and Edgar his vice mayor, or, vice versa, Edgar could run for mayor and Mike his VM.

Like, no offense in mind, in some gay union where neither partner has chosen, or agreed on, which role to play in the same-sex hook-up.

In contrast to Barug’s lineup, BOPK might have a real husband-and-wife team. One time, Mayor Tomas Osmeña said he might run for vice mayor to his wife, Councilor Margot, who’d run for mayor. Later, however, he said he’d run for mayor, without ruling out Margot as his VM.

Interesting, if the couple-for-City Hall would materialize. It would be, whichever team would win, a conjugal rule: real, if BOPK; virtual, if Barug.

Whom DU30 insulted

The man whom President Rodrigo Duterte insulted last April 3 in an Oriental Mindoro speech is Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, the UN high commissioner on human rights. The UN doesn’t allow royal titles for its officers but Al-Hussein is son of Prince Ra’ad bin Zeid, lord chamberlain of Jordan. A career diplomat, he was the first elected president of the Assembly of State Parties of the International Criminal Court, Jordan’s permanent representative to the UN, and ambassador to the US and Mexico before his appointment as UN human rights chief.

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