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True to his monicker as “WARM,” Rep. Edgar Chatto got most recent unsolicited praises from no less than the leaders of the town of his gubernatorial rival Vice. Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera.

They admired Chatto, who is the leading aspirant for Bohol governor, for his commitment to public service.

Calape Mayor Sulpicio Yu, Jr. generously described Chatto as a “dynamic and workaholic” First District congressman and Bohol leader during a poverty alleviation assembly attended by the cross-section of the community.

Chatto figures out as a “WARM” leader.  â€œWARM” means “Willing, Able, Ready, Moving.”

Barangay leaders hailed the last-termer solon for supporting their development projects and service programs regardless of partisan color and without political condition.

Also, they found Chatto to be a politician who lets his work dedication and sterling character speak for his politics.

They said his worthy qualities largely differentiate him from candidates who deceive people by fabricating issues against their contenders obviously for their less achievements or failure to meet the people’s standard of best leader.

Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Regional Director Andres Bojo, who happened to be in the same Calape affair, thanked Chatto for upgrading the status of the former Central Visayas State College of Agriculture, Forestry and Technology (CVSCAFT) into a state university.

The Boholano vice chairman of the education committee in Congress principally authored the law converting the CSVSCAFT, which has campuses in Calape and five other Bohol sites, into the now Bohol Island State University, the first and only of its kind in this part of the country.

Bojo is confident of BISU’s critical role in regaining the interest among the young people in agriculture and related technologies, including agro-fishery-ecotourism enterprises like mariculture parks.

Simply stated, a mariculture park is an enhanced aquaculture site for better production of fish and other water food resources while potentially drawing tourists.  

Thus, Bojo said, the mariculture park can offer both food for the stomach and food for the sight, making agriculture, fishery and eco-tourism compliment each other.

Apart from the BISU LAW, Chatto also principally authored in Congress the legislative milestone National Tourism Act of 2009

Meanwhile, leading 1st District congressional bet ex-Gov. Rene Relampagos cited the framing of the sustainable development agenda and the vision, mission and goal for Bohol among the legacies he and Chatto left in serving as then governor and vice governor.

Bohol had long then no development masterplan until their capitol tandem laid the drawing board and set the vision for Bohol as a prime eco-cultural tourism destination and a balanced agro-industrial province.

ATTY. EDGAR M. CHATTO IS THE BEST LEADER THAT THE BOHOLANOS NEED

1. Lakas-Kampi-CMD gubernatorial aspirant Atty. Edgar M. Chatto is the best leader that the Boholanos need, according to Padayon Bol-anon. The group said a leader cannot assume to be capable by simply trying  to draw strength from faking issues against someone else  whose outstanding leadership performances is of public knowledge.

2. Boholanos have watched Chatto as a leader from his student days to his youth involvement in his governance representing the sector in the Sangguniang Panlalawigan.

3. At the age of 27, he led the mayors in Bohol as the president of their league, until he rose to the vice governorship that made him the first Boholano to head the League of Vice Governors of the Philippines and the 4,000 strong National Movement of Young Legislators.

4. He was the first secretary-general of the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP), which name he himself coined when they organized the mother league of local leagues.

5. His stint in Congress is marked by very high performance rating both in milestone legislations of national and local impacts and projects implemented.

6. Awards and recognitions were accorded him by various institutions, including the “Nobel Prize” of Philippine public service, the Lingkod Bayan Award, of the Civil Service Commission.  No other elected public official in Bohol has equaled Chatto in this feat.

7. He is also a pioneer recipient of the Ten Outstanding Boholanos Around the World (TOBAW) Award for public service and the Presidential Youth Leadership Award in his younger years.

8. The Ramon Aboitiz Foundation cited him as among the exemplary individuals in the Visayas and Mindanao.

9. His positions on certain sensational issues like the Reproductive Health Bill is clear unlike what his critics would like him to appear.  This earned him an award from the Roman Catholic Church and Human Life
International as a pro-God, pro-life, pro-family congressman.

BOHOL CHRONICLE
Vol.LIIV                                 
Wednesday, March 31,2010

Board members' funds
"HOSTAGE" by Herrera

The discretionary funds of the provincial board members are held "hostage" by Nacionalista Party candidate Vice Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera in his power play of "dirty" politics.

The members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), which presiding officer is Herrera himself, assailed that this smacks of the absence of transparency and is, therefore, "a clear violation of our Citizen's Charter."
They warned Herrera "not to push" them "to the wall" because "the wall is dirty."
Apart from withholding the discretionary funds, Herrera has lost leadership in the provincial legislature because of his habitual absences during regular sessions. Senior Board Member Cesar Tomas Lopez would usually take his place as presiding officer.
If he was around, the session would start close to lunchtime. The board members fully doubt his capability to lead the province. They had long formally raised their complaints.
In their signed joint letter, the board members told Herrera that they do "not touch what are rightfully yours. We are only asking you to please see reason and give us what is due us."
The capitol lawmakers need to have their discretionary funds, otherwise known as the Provincial Development Initiative Program (PDIP) allocations, released so that the election ban on projects should have been avoided.
The PDIP is their source of essential financial aids to various projects and programs in barangays and other beneficiaries in their respective districts.
Each board member is allocated P1 million PDIP but they noticed that the entire SP budget for PDIP this year amounts to almost P30 million. The whole SP budget has also increased to P130 million or higher by some P25 million as against last year's.
"Our PDIP vouchers are being hostaged by your office for reasons we cannot fathom.
This is a clear violation of our Citizen's Charter," the SP members desperately wrote to Herrera.
The Citizen's Charter is a set of standards for efficient and transparent government service. It is mandated under the Anti-Red Tape Act (ARTA), a law against excess bureaucracy that breeds bribery and other manners of corruption.
The signatories to the joint letter include Board Members Concepcion Lim who is the provincial federation president of the Association of Barangay Councils (ABC), Brigido Imboy who is the head of
the Philippine Councilors' League (PCL) in Bohol, Cesar Tomas Lopez who is the senior SP member, Jose Veloso, Alfonso Damalerio II, Amalia Tirol, Ester Corazon Galbreath and Aster Piollo.
An assistant was authorized to sign for Board Member Jane Censoria Cajes, national and provincial president of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) and commissioner of the National Youth Commission (NYC).
They reminded Herrera that as friends and co-workers in government, particularly in the provincial legislature, they agreed to avoid politics marring their good personal relationship.
That as duly-elected members of the highest policy-making body of the province, they are supposed to be "honorable" and will thus do their best to maintain such distinction while delivering services expected of them by the people, they said.
The board members are authorized to extend financial assistance to the projects in barangays using their individual PDIP allocations.
They said they respect the privilege of the vice governor to get biggest PDIP share and other perks of his office.
However, Herrera has acted contrary to their agreements, causing the relationship between him and the board members to get sour.
The provincial lawmakers cited the increases in certain SP budget items which the vice governor assured would benefit all in the name of better service to the people.
But the bloated allocations "were instead used by your office alone," the board members blasted Herrera. They also hit him for refusing to increase their fuel budget.
Further, they asked Herrera not to unduly delay the realignment and appointment of their casual workers.
The vice governor has been unfair to them since hundreds of casual employees have been paid by the government yet fielded province-wide for Herrera's politicking since last year.
The board members wrote to Herrera their grievances because they would not like to submit the issues to the "court of public opinion."

Alang sa kasayuran natong tanan mao kini ang panghitabo karon nga angay natong timan-an ug ibutang sa alimpatakan nga ang taga Catigbian nagpadayon ug pagsuporta sa umaabot nga gobernador sa Bohol nga si Gob. Edgar Chatto.. Mabuhay kitang tanan!

DAGWAY SA PAGKAWALA NAY DELIKADEZA SA MGA PULITIKO BASTA LANG NGA MATAGBAW ANG ILANG MGA INTERES. 

Naklaro na ang pagbudhi sa kampo ni Gob. Erico Aumentado ngadto sa Lakas-Kampi CMD sa pagsugod gyud sa kampanya niadtong Biyernes Marso 26. Si Aumentado nag-uban og ang grupo ni Bise  Gob. Julius Caesar Herrera sa usa ka entablado sa proklamasyon sa Lakas ug Nacionalista Party (NP)sa gym sa Talibon.

Gilingla ni Aumentado ug Herrera ang katawhan sa ilang pagpatoo nga si Aumentado gihimong guest candidate sa NP sa pagkakongresista sa Segundo Distrito.

Ang proclamation rally sa Talibon nagpakita nga ang kamot hinuon ni Herrera maoy giisa ni Aumentado ug di si Aumentado ang giproklamar ni Herrera.(see above picture)

Kini nagpasabot nga si Herrera maoy gihimong guest candidate ni Aumentado sa Lakas imbes siya maoy gipatoo nga gihimong guest candidate sa NP.

Gumikan niini, samot nga napamatud-an ang PAGTRAYDOR NI AUMENTADO ug kaubanan ngadto sa Lakas.

Matud pa sa mga taho, gipa-isplikar sa NP ni Villar sila Aumentado ug Herrera nganong mao kadtoy nahitabo. Wa nahimuot ang mga tawo ni Villar nga nagtungtung man tuod sa usa ka entablado si Aumentado, Herrera ug Abapo apan Lakas ang background nga may nawong pa ni Gibo Teodoro ug Aumentado (see above picture).

Sa liang bahin, niingon ang kampo sa mga loyal nga sakop sa Lakas nga kini nagpasabot nga si Aumentado nagpatoo lang gihapon nga naa kang Gibo bisag nakigdug na sa mga kontra.

Sa maong panghitabo, nagsagol ang mga tawo nga green og orange nga maoy kolor ni Gibo Teodoro sa Lakas ug Villar sa NP.

Matud sa mga nakasaksi ngil-ad kaayo ang maong talan-awon. Para kanila kadto  dagway sa pakawala nay delikadeza sa mga pulitiko basta lang nga matagbaw ang ilang mga interes.

KATAKUS UG KASINATIAN, LIGDONG, BUOTAN UG MATINUD-ANON

Kongresista, Unang Destrito (2001 â€" hangtud karon)
Bise Gobernador (1995-2001)
Sakop sa SAngguniang Panlalawigan (1980-1985)
Mayor sa Balilihan (1989- 1995)
Chairman, Committee on Tourism, House of Representatives, Congress
Senior Vice Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Congress

Gipasidunggan, isip Maka-Dios, Makapamilya ug Makakinabuhi nga Magbabalaod;
Gipasidunggan, isip usa sa Ten Outstanding Boholanos Around the World;
Gipasidunggan, sa National Centennial Award for Outstanding Work Performance in Government;
Gipasidunggan, sa Presidential Youth Leadership Award sa Malacanang;

Nasudnong Presidente, League of Vice Governors of the Philippines;
Nasudnong Presidente, National Movement of Young Legislators;
Nasudnong Kalihim-Heneral ug Presidente sa League of Municipalities of the Philippines;
Presidente sa Kabataang Barangay sa Bohol.

Abogado ug Ekonomista. Eskolar sa Pamantasan sa Lungsod ng Maynila; Eskolar sa UP National College of Public Administration; Eskolar sa Harvard University sa USA.
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SUMBANAN SA PANGALAGAD

LIFE HELPS: LIVELIHOOD, INFRASTRUCTURE, FOOD, EDUCATION, HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, PEACE AND ORDER, SPORTS AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT.

LIVELIHOOD:
Pag-ugmad sa merkado sa mga produkto;
pag-ugmad sa gagmay’ng negosyo;
ayuda sa kooperatiba; libreng teknikal nga edukasyon;

INFRASTRUCTURE:
Pag-ugmad sa kadalanan sa kabukiran;
pantalan; tulay; tugpahanan; panubig mainum;
koryente sa kabukiran ug kaislahan;

FOOD:
Maayong mga binhi; maabot nga abono;
irigasyon; bodega sa umahan; Gamit sa agrikultura;
malungtarong panagatan ug panghayopan;
pagseguro sa pagkaon o Bahay Kubo FAITH
(Food Always In The Home);

EDUCATION:
Scholarship or libreng edukasyon sa TESDA ug CHED;
Suporta sa mga eskwelahan sama sa BISU
(Bohol Island State University);
Mga pasidungog sa natad sa edukasyon
(Cong Edgar Chatto Award for Academic Excellence);

HEALTH:
Pag-ugmad sa mga Ospital, Rural Health Units,
Barangay Health Workers ug mga Ambulansya;
Ayuda sa mga naglisud sa pagpatambal sa Philippine Heart Center,
National Kidney Institute, Don Vicente Sotto Hospital ug
Suporta sa pagpatambal sa langyaw nga nasud.

ENVIRONMENT:
Balaod alang sa kinaiyahan diha sa Bohol Environment Code;
Suporta sa malungtarong pag-uma ug paggamit sa rekursos naturales;
Palisiya pagtubag sa kausaban sa Klima;
Palisiya alang sa Malungtarong Kalambuan (Sustainable Development);

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT:
Nagmugna sa programa sa Ten Outstanding Barangay Officials of the Year (TOBOY);
Leadership Awards alang sa mga kabataan (Cong Edgar Chatto Leadership Award);
Suporta sa paglig-on sa katakus sa mga LGUs ug sa mga Liga sa mga lokal nga opisyales;

PEACE AND ORDER:
Suporta sa kapolisan, SWAT, Coastal Law Enforcement Council ug Anti-Drug Council;
Pasilidad ug ekipo sa Pulis sama sa Patrol Cars ug Firetrucks;
Pagtukod sa Hall of Justice;
Pagmugna sa Legal Assistance for Effective Law Enforcement Program (LAELEP);

SPORTS AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT:
Suporta sa mga hugpong sa kabataan ug sa Sangguniang Kabataan;
Suporta sa paugnat sa kusog pinaagi sa mga Cong. Edgar Chatto Cup nga kalihokan;
Pagtukod sa mga Covered Courts sa mga eskwelahan,
Pagtukod sa mga Gymnasiums ug cultural centers sa barangay;

SPECIAL CONCERNS:
Pagtagad sa kahimtang ug kahingawa sa mga OFWs;
Suporta sa mga Senior Citizens ug Beterano sa gubat sa WWII;
Suporta sa mga igsoon nga may pisikal nga kabilinggan;
Suporta sa mga “special children”.

MAPUSLANONG MAGBABALAOD

Pagmugna sa Bohol Island State University gikan sa pagka CVSCAFT;
Pagpalapad sa Summer Job Program sa mga estudyante;
Balaod isip sumbanan sa Turismo sa nasud;
Paglig-on sa balaod sa Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program;
Paglig-on sa balaod sa alang sa Bureau of Food and Drugs;
Paglig-on sa balaod alang sa mga Kooperatiba;
Balaod aron adunay barato nga mga Tambal;
Balaod batok sa Red Tape sa Gobyerno;
Balaod sa Citizen’s Charter sa mga ahensya sa gobyerno;
Balaod alang sa mga nag-abang sa pinuy-anan;
Pag-ila sa sumad sa Iglesia Ni Kristo;
Paghimu nga national road sa mga karsada;
Paglig-on sa balaod sa University of the Philippines.


INDAY LIM
PAGKA BISE GOBERNADOR

Be Honest, even if Erico is not
Be Honest, even if Erico will not
Be Honest, even if Erico cannot

Mga casual sa Kapitolyo daghan kaayo
Mga walay klarong trabaho
Si Abapo, Herrera ang gikampanya
Kwarta sa probinsiya nahanaw na

Ang pamutbot ni Erico, nabuking ug nabisto
Kagubot sa Lakas dinhi tungod ni Aumentado
Pasalig ni Villar, pasalig ni Teodoro
Daghang Mayor naglibog sa duwa ni Aumentado
Kay basta Aumentado, pasalig ug bakak sigurado

Ingon si Cajes ug Chatto, grand designer si Aumentado
Sulti ni Relampagos, magpakatutuo ka Erico,
Si Conching Lim nahi-ubos pag-ayo
Si Erico, si Herrera ug Abapo ang gikampanya
Kay ang iyang dughan tua sa Nacionalista

Daily Tribune

FRONTLINE
Ninez Cacho-Olivares

03/16/2010

Presidential and vice presidential candidates love to project themselves as opposition or “independent” candidates, even when clearly, they were hardly that, from 1998 to 2005, with some even allied with the administration up till 2009.

It should be asked: They are in opposition to whom, Gloria Arroyo and her administration?

But the facts show that they â€" Noynoy Aquino, Manny Villar, Mar Roxas, Loren Legarda and Ralph Recto, among others, were hardly in opposition to Gloria Arroyo.

In 2000, Villar, Aquino, Legarda and even Senators Francis Pangilinan and Franklin Drilon were certainly not in opposition to Gloria, since they not only moved unconstitutionally, to have then sitting President Joseph Estrada tried in the Senate but also stage-managed a coup d’etat against him when it was clear that they wouldn’t be able to get the numbers to convict Estrada.

Mar Roxas was never in the opposition. He was the Trade secretary of Estrada but resigned, under pressure from the civil socialites who wanted him out and wanted Estrada ousted. Then after the Edsa ll coup, Roxas joined the Gloria government as her Trade secretary.

Villar, Legarda, Drilon, Pangilinan and Roxas, among others, also ran under Gloria’s “People Power” coalition in 2001 as Gloria’s senatorial bets. And in 2004, even as they all knew she had cheated, and massively, they all covered up for her and railroaded the canvassing and her proclamation.

And they would still have covered up for Gloria’s electoral fraud and other scams, if the “Hello Garci” tapes did not surface and made them look like fools, as it was also they who had known about the fraud, and were accessories to the crime.

Truth is, the only reason the Liberal Party members now try to identify themselves as opposition is that they, together with the usual civil socialites, had attempted a “constitutional coup” in 2005 against Gloria and her government when they called on her to resign, believing that the coup will succeed. It didn’t, and they had no choice but to state that they were now in opposition to Gloria.

It is on record that most of the congressional hearings on Gloria and Mike Arroyo’s scams and scandals in the early days of her regime, never came up with a report for submission to the Ombudsman. That’s mainly because all of these congressmen and senators were with the majority, and part and parcel of Gloria’s ruling class.

Remember the telecoms probe where Gloria sought majority control in exchange for no veto on the franchise? The jueteng probe, and many more besides? All of Gloria’s men in Congress were there to protect the interest of Gloria. And they claim to be against corruption, when they did nothing all those years to curb the corruption in Gloria’s government, to the point of protecting the corrupt?

It is also on record that Noynoy Aquino, as congressman, voted against the airing of the Hello Garci tapes. He now claims he voted against its airing because the tapes were “illegally obtained.” That’s really rich. In the first place, there was never a ruling from the high court that the tapes were illegal. For another, the tapes were already being aired all over and played and replayed, apart from which the transcript was published in the Tribune, which had the scoop.

Noynoy claimed in an interview that he had decided against playing the tapes since they were obtained illegally. “The bottomline is there is a legal promise called the fruit of the poison tree. That means that any evidence taken illegally cannot be used in judicial proceedings,” he said.

But who said a congressional hearing is a judicial proceeding?

The truth is, Noynoy, along with his fellow Liberals and civil society, was still hoping that this scandal would blow over and that they would still be Gloria’s allies, as Manny Villar was. Notice that they were so silent about the massive cheating all that time, even when the proof was already staring them at the face. Such acts hardly substantiate their claim of their being against government corruption.

Truth is, they were all protectors of the grafters and the corrupt, as they were true-blue Gloria administration allies.

It was only after they realized that they wouldn’t be able to win an elective seat if they still identified themselves with Gloria, that they suddenly claimed to be in opposition to Gloria.

Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:o5:00 03/13/2010

"The MARCH 7 ARTICLE ON Manny Villar's house along Moriones Street in Tondo confirmed the belief that he was never poor, never spent his Christmas on the street and never swam in a pool of garbage. In the early 1960's, if you has a three-story house in a 60- sq.m. lot in the business district of Tondo, you were considered an aristocrat.

Not too far from that Moriones house were shanties leading to the pier where childred went to the nearby public schools for education. Such was not the case of Villar; he went to Holy Child Catholic School for his elementary education and to Mapua for high school. Coming from Moriones going to Mapua, Villar had to pass by three outstanding public high schools; Jose Abad Santos High School, Arellano High School and Teodora Agoncillo High School, and public schools in the latter part of the 1950s and 1960s were at their best.

But not for the Villar children. Beacause their father was a white-collar employee and they had a businesswoman for a mother, Manny and his siblings were able to study in the best private school nearby. They had corned beef for breakfast (as told in Villar's ad with Boy Abunda) and I am pretty sure suahe and other seafoods for lunch or dinner.

During the times that Villar claimed he was poor, his family actually belonged to the AB and upper C economic strata or the top 10 percent of the population. As in the C-5 controversy, in the conversion of agricultural land in Iloilo, in the land grabbing of the Dumagats' land in Norzagaray and his questionable use of socialized housing funds among many others, Villar shows a penchant for covering the truth.

I hope television's investigate journalist can dig deeper into this so the poor people who are being used will find out the truth."


-ELEN FRANCISCO
elefrancisco@gmail.com