Better late than never

Egay Uy

TO put it more politely and with finesse, some politicians may be likened to butterflies, sipping the sweetness of nectar from flower to flower. They are the kind who simply do their job after assuming office, without regard to obstacles put up by obstructionists.  But then, others can also be like the dreaded houseflies spreading germs and bacteria to wherever they land.

At this time in the political battle, we see many of them do either of those, and it is not a surprise for the butterflies and houseflies to transmute into chameleons and change their colors from a little shade of the original to the most extreme contrasting hue–at the flick of a finger.

But that shouldn’t place the constituents in a dismay mode. In fact, the game has delighted many, especially those who gain financially, albeit temporarily, from every transmutation they make.

I can only hope the voters will be able to discern and see the quality of the candidates they will be electing next year.  While it is good that management approach in governing the city has resurrected, gone are the days when issues, yes issues not personalities and tsismis, were debated upon in the halls of the city council.

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If you live in a glass house, don’t throw stones at others, so they say.

The news item that a radio block-timer was meted what could be a game-changing verdict for him came as a surprise because the complainant was himself in the same league or even worse if not, the worst player in the industry.

If you will only listen to how the complainant conducts himself while doing a monologue before the microphone, and how he rudely lambasts other people, you will wonder why the radio station has not considered discontinuing airing his program.

It is not difficult to see that his comments and insinuations are not just below the belt but dwell under the soiled and sullen sole of the barest barefoot imaginable.

But then again, that’s business and oftentimes ethics are but a mere litany of wishules that are more often openly broken than observed.

On the positive side though, it is good that the KBP has finally acted on something of this kind.

Better late than never.

 (Egay Uy is a lawyer, city hall consultant, and chairman of Task Force Hapsay Dalan.)