As a Baguio resident, I'd like to express my disappointment with the administration of Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. His term is about to end, but he will be leaving without a good legacy. He has not provided basic things like lighted streets at night, sidewalks you can walk on without stumbling, a solution to the vehicular pollution and garbage problems. He has no cultural program that can harness the active writers groups, visual artists and theater enthusiasts who are doing their work on their own without his support. Bautista is only good at uttering "Of course" and "Actually" in his television sound bytes. I feel like a disenfranchised voter when the mayor I elected, Braulio Yaranon, was unceremoniously removed from office when he was only doing his job. Everytime former Baguio residents visit our city, they are dismayed at what it has become. It hurts to hear that.
The young mayor who showed potential has two choices: shape up or ship out.
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I think Elaine Sembrano will make a good mayor...
Surprisingly, Jack's auntie---Cecille Afable---endorses Peter Rey for another term.
Excerpt from her Midland column http://www.baguiomidlandcourier.com.ph/in_out.asp
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...mayor Peter Rey should stay some more as mayor. When he refused to collect garbage, he was doing it to educate the people of Baguio. He was brave to do so. He is really the most powerful mayor we ever had because he can afford to be so. Domogan is leaving us his legacy of a swimming pool full of dengue mosquitoes. The soul of two city high boys will haunt him forever because they drowned in an unguarded and incomplete swimming pool. Our city is decorated by vulgar politicians with a cement tree as the most lighted spot in the city.
Our young mayor has all the advantage over the others because he does not come from the cold. He has a distinguished family and he has character. He cannot be bribed. He does not have to steal and cheat.
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thank you for the picture of john hay....it reinds me of the best years of my youth...i was a boarder at brent school (1963-1964)..i always have the best memories...the centennial is next month and a lot of bretonians are going back from all over the world...please, post more pictures of this city....
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