Kapatiran Presidential bet JC interviewed at ANC
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Jousting with the windmill
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“JC WHO?” might very well be the question the average Filipino voter will ask when told that JC de los Reyes will be one of the candidates for president during the 2010 national elections. The name will certainly ring no bell in the mind of most voters, and well it should not because prior to his announcement last Saturday Mr. John Carlos “JC” de los Reyes was just a city councilor in Olongapo, Pampanga.
JC is neither a practical joker nor a lunatic. A graduate of the Ateneo de Manila and of De La Salle – Zobel, he is a sober and successful businessman, a nephew of Senator Richard Gordon. By his own description a simple man with a moral duty, JC de los Reyes was nominated to run for the presidency by the Kapatiran Party which, judging from its past record, is hands-down and thumbs-up the most moral political party in the Philippines today.
Founded by Mr. Nandy Pacheco during the 2007 national and local elections, Kapatiran then fielded three senatorial candidates: Dr. Martin Bautista, Atty. Zosimo Paredes and Adrian Sison. All three were devout Roman Catholics, successful professionals and as far from the image of the legendary Don Quixote as black is from white. The Party was formed to be the model of what the ideal political party should be (with clean, law-abiding, moral party members, and with a clearly-defined set of party principles), organized to give the Filipino electorate an alternative choice to the traditional politicians that is our daily fare during elections.
In 2010, Kapatiran will attempt to field candidates in both national and local government positions, the better to make its advocacy more visible to the ordinary voter. It will not be lacking in challenges. Even in the local sphere, in the provinces, cities and municipalities, Kapatiran is relatively unknown.
Ninety-five percent of its candidates will probably be first-timers in politics as traditional politicians, the trapos, will never fit into the mold of principles that it has set for prospective members. But the political face that it will present will certainly be refreshing, candidates who can pass the test of morality, integrity and professionalism that ought to be the trademark of all politicians.
It is a testament to how far we still need to travel to reach political maturity that political parties like Kapatiran and candidates like JC de los Reyes appear like Don Quixotes jousting with the seemingly-impregnable windmill. On the other hand, change will come only if more and more people believe like JC, that the windmill is man-made and can be broken by men and women with the resolve to break it down.
From the bottom of Bottomline’s heart, kudos to KC de los Reyes and to the Kapatiran Party!
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People will laugh at JC
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:15:00 06/08/2009
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Close this I’d like to say my piece about Kapatiran’s presidential candidate, John Carlos “JC” Gordon De los Reyes, who was the subject of a news story in the May 31 issue of the Inquirer.
While De los Reyes is entitled to aspire to become the nation’s political shepherd, he should be advised that in pursuing so, he might end up as the laughingstock of the flock.
When he first ran for Olongapo City councilor back in 1995, the Gordon political machinery was used to serve him his first taste of victory on a silver platter. Although he represented Kapatiran in the last elections, De los Reyes was voted back by the local electorate to the city council because he was adopted by the party of his uncle, Mayor James “Bong” Gordon Jr. He won because he is a Gordon. If De los Reyes ran under the banner of Kapatiran, an unknown political party in the city and probably elsewhere, he would have suffered the same drubbing as that of the party’s other candidates.
Perhaps the other members of the Gordon clan are squirming in shame over a relative they wouldn’t dare trust to be at the city’s helm someday.
If De los Reyes wants to climb his own Mt. Sinai with the obscure Kapatiran as Sherpa, he should first ask himself: What has he accomplished so far as city councilor? This guy, who failed to land in the No. 1 slot of the 10-member city council but who is now salivating for the country’s No. 1 post, won’t even win in Olongapo if he decides to run for mayor.
For now JC can keep his avowed “moral duty” to himself by keeping true to his word, restoring the lost confidence of people who feel betrayed by him and by mending his broken relations with his next of kin.
—ISAGANI BASILIO MENDIGORIN,
ibm_subic@yahoo.com
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