Butch Bagabuyo “He who first takes high sunny positions and keeps his supply routes unimpeded can fight advantageously.” – Sun Tzu “MITING de avance” is what all the viable candidates would do tomorrow, Saturday. But not the next president of our country, Rodrigo Roa Duterte, and his vice president Alan Peter Cayetano, if I can have it my way. But bear in mind that I am but a dreamer who has written his dream of having a president from the paradise-like islands of Mindanao-Basilan-Sulu-Palawan-Tawi-Tawi three times a week since the third week or so of July 2013. Our elections code and other rules and regulations mandate that the Friday before the Election Day, first Monday of May, is considered to be the last day for campaigning. But as we all know this provision of law is honored in the breach, and to this day no one has ever been found guilty and/or imprisoned for violating the law as well as almost all the provisions of our election code. Here is my take: After I thought that “all the fathers” of Mayor Oscar S. Moreno’s upset landslide victory against now gravely ailing former Mayor Vicente Y. Emano, must have already narrated their heroics in ensuring the defeat of the former mayor, I went to the Office of the City Mayor some time in the third or 4th week of July 2013. However, my courtesy call did not last longer than five minutes as I have assured the newly installed transition Mayor Moreno. To be fair with now dismissed (by the Ombudsman for his fraudulent transaction with the owner of Ajinomoto), I was allowed to see him ahead of those in queue. And he brought me to his private office inside the mayor’s office, and he even ordered for a cup of coffee for me. But I politely refused the offer because I assured the transition mayor that my conscience would not permit me to stay longer than five minutes because there were so many in queue outside his newly refurbished office. I went straight to the point and asked him to provide me with the necessary paper trail so as to be able to sue the former mayor Emano for plunder and other criminal cases as he has assured me and we have agreed prior to the start of my personal campaign against the former mayor, who is now gravely ailing as shown on his looks and movements. But to make a long sad story short, Moreno adamantly refused to be a party to the filing of any criminal case against the former mayor; hence, without much ado, I left the office without waiting for the cup of coffee. Right there and then, I knew that  Moreno and the now gravely ailing former mayor had a modus vivendi; throw all the mud of whatever but not going any farther than filing any case in court against each other. Otherwise stated, they would just be outperforming the other in fooling the electorate. I have evaluated objectively the issues raised against consistent outstanding congressman Rufus B. Rodriguez as well as Moreno, including  their competence in running a highly urbanized city as large and as economically and politically advanced city coupled with phone call surveys of at least 3, 000 registered voters in our city, and the result is an overkill against Moreno, and highly favorable to the well-educated and clearly the next city mayor of Cagayan de Oro, Rodriguez. Rufus Rodriguez and his team pa more! Tsada, di ba?
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“Don’t hit your competitors head on.” – Sun Tzu Celebrate success is the name of the game at this time. If I would have my way, tomorrow, Saturday, 7th of May, should be the start of the week-long celebration on a BP4OOP (Bring Provision for One Other Person) rather than the traditional miting de avance which nobody listens, and hereunder are among the compelling reasons for the celebration:
  • Elections, unlike basketball and the like, are decided, as in all past elections, two weeks before the actual voting. Never mind the counting. I say so, because in the past, it is during the last two weeks before the voting that the ruling elites, the oligarchs and the trapos would start using peoples’ money to convince the poor that unless they vote in favor of those who bought them or their representatives, they would be imprisoned. That kind of threat no longer works. For the simple reason that Davao Mayor Duterte has consistently surged since three weeks ago despite all the brouhaha (the sex joke and all) and the lies (alleged hidden and unexplained wealth) thrown at him by the ruling oligarchs and the trapos. Our enemies, who are very few in numbers but much stolen wealth forgot to remember that “Super Digong” Duterte has mastered Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War.” Hence, every time the oligarchs, the trapos and the Imperial Manila throw mud at Mayor Duterte, they come out losing and badly bruised instead because it turned out that all those were either bait or dud.
  • Since the long oppressed and abused Filipinos have found a leader in Duterte, and have supported him from start to finish, it is high time, we, the people, prepared the start of the week-long celebration, by doing, thus:
Occupy Luneta and all the freedom plazas in the entire archipelago don in red or just a bannerette of our Philippine flag and at the designated time, play the National Anthem simultaneously all over the archipelago; Duterte-Cayetano should have a five- to 10-minute prelude State of the Nation address in Metro Manila, Cebu in the Visayas, Davao and Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao, and after the prelude Sona in the designated areas, “DuCay” should have a one-hour selfies with all participants and a day-long dancing on the streets. We can easily do this dancing on the streets all over the country; and, We should have street-dancing in the evening of May 9, this year, so that, in the unlikely event the Comelec allows, God forbid, cheating, we shall immediately execute the perfected People Power. Duterte-Cayetano pa more. Tsada, di ba?