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		<title>EV Mail Digital Issue of February 22-28, 2010</title>
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		<title>ESR Digital issue February 21-27, 2010</title>
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		<title>Water project claims another victim</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE CODILLA version of the Locsin initiated Comprehensive Waterworks Program which was only started during the term of Mayor Eric Codilla has claimed another victim last Saturday evening, February 27, at around 8:20 PM.
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<p>THE CODILLA version of the Locsin initiated Comprehensive Waterworks Program which was only started during the term of Mayor Eric Codilla has claimed another victim last Saturday evening, February 27, at around 8:20 PM.<br />
A motorist died after bumping a pile of gravel from a road digging dumped on the road at Brgy. Bantigue, just in front of DYRR, with no proper warning devices in place.  The victim was coming from Albuera, on his way home to Kananga town. <span id="more-1624"></span><br />
The project has been going on for several years now, and has been drawing criticism from road users for the continued lack of early warning devices or proper signages.  The project has already caused a lot of accidents, aside from the Globe road diggings in the past, the contractor of which was a sibling of the mayor.<br />
One Noel Canin y Rosalia, 37, bus driver of the Energy Development Corporation, died on the spot after his motorcycle flew over a pile of sand and gravel dumped on the roadside from a digging site for the water project.<br />
Canin never reached the hospital. Aside from a widowed young wife, the victim also left behind six young children.<br />
The victim’s chances for survival further dimmed when, after flying over the pile of gravel, he slammed into a Nissan Patrol which was coming in from the other direction. The Nissan Patrol, with plate number LRT-374, was driven by Peter Cataag, a resident of Brgy. Canadieng, this city.  The Patrol also suffered a dent on the impact of the victim’s body on the vehicle.<br />
The accident has once more resurrected criticisms of the project’s implementation.  Concerned Ormocanons reached by the EV Mail for their reactions said they have no resistance to the project per se, but were critical of its slow implementation.<br />
Just in the recent past, the phase I of the project which was done in the city districts, incensed a lot of road users with the continued diggings and re-diggings. The phase I, according to ORWASA brass, is now finished that is why the diggings have moved out to the city outskirts.<br />
Nonetheless, the oft complained lack of adequate warning devices persisted. Contractors of the project continued to ignore the complaints of road users, and City Hall has seemingly turned a deaf ear to it.<br />
A texter to this reporter said, “Nahitabo na gyod ma’am ang imong gisuwat nga hapit mo madisgrasya sa Bantigue. Naa na gyod nadisgrasya, patay. Kinsa man intawn manubag ani oi”.<br />
This writer wrote about the road diggings in Bantigue having no proper warning devices last December yet. Apparently, nothing has changed.<br />
Meanwhile, another texter who asked anonymity is challenging opposition groups of the ruling Codillas to bring the matter of City Hall’s nonchalance to the public sentiment to court. He noted that under the “public welfare clause” of the Local Government Code, the LGU is liable for not being able to impose on its contractors to implement internationally accepted standards on safety measures. with a report from Paul Libres</p>
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		<title>Tsunami warning causes panic in seaside towns</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE TSUNAMI alert raised around the world after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit Chile in South America has elicited various reactions, even panic, here in Eastern Visayas where four provinces were included.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>THE TSUNAMI alert raised around the world after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit Chile in South America has elicited various reactions, even panic, here in Eastern Visayas where four provinces were included.<br />
The tsunami alert has caused a wave of evacuation from coastal areas in the four provinces, even those not facing the Pacific. <span id="more-1622"></span></p>
<p>Some were incensed, angry at the “false alarm” or “exaggerated reporting”, while others said it was “better safe than sorry”.<br />
To recall, residents of Ormoc and nearby towns were jolted by a strong but short quake mid-afternoon of Saturday, February 27.<br />
The quake, reports state, was felt almost all over the world with the strongest and longest tremors felt in Chile, causing billions of damage and affecting an estimated 1.5-million people.<br />
The Philvolcs located the Philippine tremor as originating at around 11 kilometers northeast of Ormoc City, with a 4.3 magnitude and around 5 kilometers underground. It happened at 3:34 PM.<br />
It was also felt in Butuan City in Mindanao, around a minute later or at 3:35. It was a gentler one, at 3.3-magnitude.  Unbeknown then was that it was just an effect of a bigger quake that happened halfway across the globe.<br />
Included in the tsunami alert were the provinces of Leyte (where Ormoc City is geographically located), Eastern Samar, Northern Samar and Southern Leyte. The alert was hoisted in several countries facing the Pacific, as big waves made their way throughout the globe.<br />
The tsunami waves were expected to reach the Philippines at 2:00 PM of Sunday, February 28, a good 24 hours after the Chile quake happened. By morning of Sunday, the alert was raised to Level 2, which advises people to keep off the coastal areas.<br />
In Isabel, Leyte, it was learned that residents of coastal areas like Barangay Lawis vacated their homes in anticipation of the giant waves. One resident complained that vendors at the public market closed shop early, after a warning was announced.<br />
Others commented on their Facebook accounts that the feeling of panic was almost contagious, even if they were closely monitoring ANC, CNN, Fox News for updates.<br />
Meanwhile, a report from the Philippine Information Agency indicates that the “panic” was not unique to Isabel town.<br />
“In San Jose, Dulag, Leyte, for one, the people were evacuated to the nearby Burauen town since 11:30 in the evening of February 27 (Saturday yet), making the big barangay virtually a ghost barangay”, the PIA report said.<br />
It was also learned that during that time, the alert raised was still Level 1 which means no evacuation order was in effect.<br />
Meanwhile, an Ormocana who is now staying in Saipan, kept friends here abreast of what was also happening in their part of the world. She said they were evacuated on Sunday morning yet.<br />
She said people who didn’t want to evacuate had no choice because policemen, rangers, and medics were everywhere, knocking on doors and telling people to move to higher grounds.” Who wouldnt?!?!!? With all the sirens and the announcements.. and the police car and fire trucks on the road&#8230; some police officers even knock on your doors!!!! and you wouldnt really wanna be the only one left when everybody is already driving going to higher grounds&#8230;”, she posted.<br />
The tsunami waves were estimated to hit the island at around noon of Sunday.<br />
Sources reaching this writer from other places also indicated the same feeling of dread pervading everywhere. At the Visayas State University in Baybay City, students and teachers were watchful for big waves or “unusual” sea currents. An academe community, they should know better that Camotes Sea is not included in the alert zones.<br />
In Borongan City, the editor of Eastern Samar Reporter, a sister publication of EV Mail, reported also of massive evacuations of coastal areas. He said that people who had relations living in higher grounds preferred to stay with their relatives. Some evacuated as early as Saturday, after Level 1 was hoisted. The evacuees only returned later in the evening of Sunday, when they were sure that “the coast was clear”.<br />
He said his sources also added the same scenario prevailed in Northern Samar. Both Eastern Samar and Northern Samar face the Pacific, and the waves there are gigantic already without a tsunami, and even on good days. Some areas of Eastern Samar are known as surfing paradise.<br />
But on Sunday, February 28, even as Level 2 was already hoisted, Calvin Rosellosa of the SuperCat said that none of their trips were cancelled. “All our masters were advised to be extra cautious and to report any unusual signs. Our routes are not affected and out of danger”, he said.<br />
Those in imminent danger of the tsunami waves are coastal areas facing the Pacific. In Leyte, these would be the coasts of Dulag and Abuyog, where a tsunami warning system have already been installed around a year ago and vulnerable villages underwent training on how to recognize the signs and what to do.  By Lalaine M. Jimenea</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[BAYBAY CITY &#8211; Senator Manny Villar said that the only other presidential candidate that he considers as a real contender is Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino Jr., and even so, he has already eclipsed him in the latest surveys.
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<p>BAYBAY CITY &#8211; Senator Manny Villar said that the only other presidential candidate that he considers as a real contender is Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino Jr., and even so, he has already eclipsed him in the latest surveys.<br />
Villar said this when asked whether he thinks former Pres. Joseph Estrada would continue to pursue his candidacy. Estrada also counts as his bailiwick the vote rich Tondo, where Villar comes from.  “Huwag na nating pagusapan ‘yan, si Noynoy na lang”, he said, in an exclusive interview over lunch at the house of Rep. Carmen L. Cari (Lakas) in Baybay City. <span id="more-1618"></span><br />
Villar, who dropped by to greet Cari who was celebrating her birthday that day, February 23, also took his lunch there and took the chance to meet with the fifth district mayors and other guests.<br />
Villar had just come from a short handshaking trip to Ormoc and a meeting with Sabin Larrazabal at the Sabin Resort Hotel. He also visited the Visayas State University where teachers and students greeted him warmly. Villar’s wife, congresswoman Cynthia Villar, is the chair of the committee on education and is a board of trustee of the university.<br />
The senator said that the country has so many problems that “we do not need a greenhorn to lead us”. Unfortunately, he said, Aquino hasn’t have had a “leadership” responsibility bestowed on him when he was congressman and senator, and is ill equipped to run the country.<br />
He added “what we need right now is a good manager”, “one who can manage the country well”. He is that man, he said, with his long experience in management and turning around his own life, from being a slum boy to one of the country’s richest men.<br />
Asked how he proposed to do away with the country’s increasing poverty, Villar reiterated that what the Philippines needed was to do away with corruption. Once corruption is minimized, if not eradicated, he said, the Filipinos can start expecting a more decent life with improved living standards.<br />
He added education is one of his topmost priorities, saying that it was the very tool that saved him from poverty. A Tondo boy but a consistent honor student, he refused to be defeated by poverty and found his ticket out when he got a scholarship from the University of the Philippines. He then became a Certified Public Accountant. He said nothing was impossible when one is well educated, and determined.<br />
Meanwhile, Villar maintained a “mysterious” stance when asked who his leaders would be in the region, or in Leyte province at least. So far, in the fourth district, there are only two distinct parties – Lakas and the Liberal Party.<br />
The same scenario prevails at the 5th district, where the ruling class are with the administration party Lakas.<br />
Villar smiled mysteriously and said, “malalaman nyo lang ‘yan baka by March or April”. He added that he was not without friends, adding “you must remember I was Speaker of the House and Senate president. I have many friends”.<br />
As for the acceptability of a Gloria Arroyo speakership, Villar did not say categorically what his stand was but said that history would show that the House Speaker was usually the president’s man, or woman for that matter.<br />
However, he hinted that he did not believe that Arroyo would be as powerful as congressman, than she is now as president. He said he was a pragmatic man, and knew that in politics, leaders amassed a lot of friends when they are in power. “But when you’re out, they also leave you”, he said in Tagalog.<br />
Villar said that knowing this, his only driving force once in Malacanang is to serve the people and turn the country around. He said he’ll encourage investments which will give people jobs and food on their tables, and enough money to educate their children.<br />
He also pooh-poohed the notion that Aquino was the candidate backed by the powerful Catholic Church. Villar said that he had many friends in the Catholic Church and has the support of many bishops being a member of the Couples for Christ movement for 12 years now.<br />
In fact, he said, he is the only presidential bet who has made a clear stand on the Reproductive Health issue. “I am not in favor of the RH bill”, he said, because it becomes a law instead of a choice. “It becomes mandated”, he said, and when it becomes a law, it becomes something that should be followed.<br />
He believes in leaving it to the couples to make a choice, as reproductive health services are readily available in the country. By Lalaine M. Jimenea</p>
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		<title>Lucy breaks  silence, urges Codillas to take the high road</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LUCY TORRES-Gomez, Ormoc’s homegrown beauty and one of the most respected stars in our local tinseltown, has broken her silence and is urging her husband Richard Gomez’s political opponents “to take the high road”.
In a Skype videoconference with Lucy, she answered “warnings” leveled against her and her husband by Edwin Codilla and Winnie Codilla, that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.evmailnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/lucys-picture.jpg" rel="lightbox[1610]"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1611" title="lucy's picture" src="http://www.evmailnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/lucys-picture-146x300.jpg" alt="" width="146" height="300" /></a>LUCY TORRES-Gomez, Ormoc’s homegrown beauty and one of the most respected stars in our local tinseltown, has broken her silence and is urging her husband Richard Gomez’s political opponents “to take the high road”.<br />
In a Skype videoconference with Lucy, she answered “warnings” leveled against her and her husband by Edwin Codilla and Winnie Codilla, that they could destroy her modeling career with a perjury case, which will affect her various endorsements. <span id="more-1610"></span></p>
<p>Edwin Codilla, around two weeks ago in an interview with this reporter, said that the controversial Community Tax Certificates of Richard and Lucy could cost them their jobs and endorsements. This was reiterated by Winnie Codilla himself, in an interview this week. (see story on Winnie)<br />
The porcelain beauty, the face of many advertisements for beauty products, said “I am not threatened by that. (As artistas) our life is an open book”, she said, adding that the only reason why they are being threatened such is because their opponents know that they will never give up on their quest to give Ormoc and the fourth district a better representation.<br />
“We will never give up”, she said.<br />
She added she is sad to think how low politics have gone in Ormoc City. “This is not the Ormoc I know”, even adding that these were not the Codillas she knew.<br />
“Sayang”, she said, “they started very bright”. Lucy was apparently referring to the time when the Codilla patriarch, Eufrocino “Dodong” Codilla Sr. who boasts of a rags-to-riches story, wrestled power from the powerful and moneyed Larrazabal clan in 1991.<br />
The elder Codilla’s mercurial rise to power is the stuff of legends, Lucy alluded, but unfortunately, the younger generation did not get the old man’s charm and humility.<br />
Lucy was in high school then, and remembers the upbeat spirit of Ormoc with the entry of a fresh name in the city’s jaded political scenery. In not so many words, she said that the same jaded spirit now prevails over the district, with two generations of Codillas holding sway over it for years now.<br />
She said that what her husband only aims is “to bring some good changes (to the district)”. Gomez had always emphasized in his sorties here that the fourth district has stagnated, and Ormoc City, once considered a premier city in the country, has been overtaken by many places.<br />
Meanwhile, Lucy said that they refuse to “play dirty” and hopes to introduce a new kind of politics here. She said that was what they hoped to start, when Richard Gomez filed for Congress.<br />
“Somebody has to start somewhere and somebody has to act to bring that change. It’s all about setting a good example, hoping there would be a domino effect”, Lucy added.<br />
Lucy and the Torreses are known to be a very religious and conservative family, and old-timers welcome their entry into the political scene, hoping they would bring a “Christ-centered” kind of politics over.<br />
Meanwhile, she also urged Richard Gomez’s supporters not to be disheartened. “We will not give up”, she said, and even said that once the official campaign season starts, she will be around to also campaign for her husband. She told supporters to have faith in God and His wisdom and to “pray for Richard”.<br />
Meanwhile, she also said that she knew talks about her substituting for Gomez are growing stronger. “We haven’t reached that point yet in our discussions, and Richard is going to bring his case all the way to the Supreme Court”, she added, but did not say she was adverse to the idea. By Lalaine M. Jimenea</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACTOR RICHARD Gomez, who is seeking the congressional seat of the fourth district of Leyte against the incumbent’s son, urged supporters not to be “discouraged” with the resolution of the Comelec disqualifying him.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.evmailnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/goma.jpg" rel="lightbox[1607]"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1608" title="goma" src="http://www.evmailnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/goma.jpg" alt="" width="88" height="130" /></a>ACTOR RICHARD Gomez, who is seeking the congressional seat of the fourth district of Leyte against the incumbent’s son, urged supporters not to be “discouraged” with the resolution of the Comelec disqualifying him.<br />
He said his name will continue to appear in the Certified List of Candidates issued last January 30 yet, and the votes cast for him on May 10 will be counted in his favor. Gomez, as of press time, has filed a motion for reconsideration with the Comelec.</p>
<p>Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said as much over the national news. Jimenez said that “votes of disqualified bets with pending motion for reconsideration will be counted”. <span id="more-1607"></span><br />
Gomez added that presuming the case is pending at the Supreme Court by then, whether he or the Codilla camp be the one to elevate it to the highest arbiter of the land, if he wins the vote count then he will be considered the winner.<br />
The Comelec, in a resolution issued on February 17, ruled that Gomez was disqualified “for lack of residency requirement”. The Comelec, however, did not rule on the petition to cancel Gomez’s Certificate of Candidacy, leaving the question open whether a substitution is allowed.<br />
This opinion is also shared by a Manila-based lawyer, whom the EV Mail considers a third independent party as she is not involved in either Gomez’s camp or the Codillas, said in an e-mailed opinion that “ on the issue about no substitution allowed” (as claimed by the Codilla camp), she noted that “nothing in the Comelec resolution says about the issue on substitution. Nonetheless, it is not true that substitution is not allowed. Under the Comelec rules, no substitution is allowed unless and until the disqualification of a candidate becomes final.” (underscoring hers)<br />
She explained, “In Richard&#8217;s case, since he will be filing a motion for reconsideration which will be heard by the Comelec en banc and will be decided with finality by the Supreme Court, his disqualification by the 1st Division is not yet final.”<br />
“For all intents and purposes, he is still very much a candidate and votes for him will still be counted and he could still be proclaimed if he garners the highest number of votes.”<br />
“However, if he concedes this early and refrains from filing an MR, or if he has filed an MR, and eventually withdraws the same, that is when his disqualification will become final. Only then will substitution be allowed per Comelec rules.”<br />
She observed that “perhaps his detractors are capitalizing on this because they know that he will be fighting it out until it reaches the Supreme Court. Substitution, therefore, is not yet within the horizon at this time.”<br />
In this vein, she also opined that maybe this is why the Codillas continue to threaten Richard and Lucy with charges of perjury, to make them buckle down to pressure and give up the fight.<br />
On another aspect of the case, the Ormocanon lawyer who is now based in Manila added that on the issue of what will happen to the case if it reaches the Supreme Court, “we all know that election controversies take a while for the Supreme Court to resolve. Chances are, the candidate may have already served the full term of office before he is declared ineligible. If Richard garners the highest number of votes, he can be proclaimed the winner pending resolution on his disqualification case. “<br />
“If, however, Richard only ranks second in the election, his disqualification case will be still be resolved by the Supreme Court, but only in so far as his eligibility is concerned. It becomes useless even if the Supreme Court will rule in his favor because, realistically speaking, the people did not choose him in the first place.”, she added, taking note that this was what happened with the Codilla vs. Locsin case in 2001.<br />
She said Ormocanons and people of the fourth district are not ignorant about this, because the very same case happened here just a few years back.<br />
She further noted, “that is probably the reason why Winnie&#8217;s camp is propagating these rumors about Richard no longer qualified to run and that votes for him will not be counted, causing despair or disappointment on his would-be voters because they know that the 1st Division’s resolution is only a momentary victory &#8211; if one can truly call it a victory &#8211; since the process is long and will take a while to be finally resolved.”<br />
“The Comelec resolution can best be used as a leverage for political propaganda purposes, but not for legal purposes. The plan is admirably sophisticated, though predictable and sad.”, she said.<br />
She ended her piece saying, “Tyrants perpetuate themselves in power by keeping their subjects ignorant and poor”.  By LM Jimenea</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[EUFROCINO “WINNIE” Codilla Jr. is happy. He is happy because he has triumphed on the first round of a disqualification case filed against his leading opponent, actor Richard Gomez, by an ally, former Libertad barangay chairman Ben Juntilla. He is also confident that the disqualification will be sustained in any Court that Gomez will go [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.evmailnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/winnie-codilla.jpg" rel="lightbox[1603]"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1605" title="winnie codilla" src="http://www.evmailnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/winnie-codilla.jpg" alt="" width="208" height="232" /></a>EUFROCINO “WINNIE” Codilla Jr. is happy. He is happy because he has triumphed on the first round of a disqualification case filed against his leading opponent, actor Richard Gomez, by an ally, former Libertad barangay chairman Ben Juntilla. He is also confident that the disqualification will be sustained in any Court that Gomez will go to. <span id="more-1603"></span><br />
In a telephone interview, Winnie said that he is satisfied with the Comelec ruling, adding that the Comelec commissioners really dwelt on the merits of the case. “We all know that Richard is not an Ormocanon, does not live in Ormoc and that the Comelec saw that”, he said in the vernacular.<br />
He added that his lawyers have told him that since Gomez has been disqualified for lack of residency, it means that a valid Certificate of Candidacy has not been filed, so scenarios of a substitution by his wife Lucy can never be.<br />
Winnie emphasized that they are only “righting a wrong” and twitted Gomez, saying that a person keen on becoming a lawmaker cannot even follow simple rules of the game.<br />
“Gibarogan lang nako nga if mu-representar ka, dili ilad-ilaron ang tawo. Kun sa baraha a, i-plastar nato sa lamesa, dili tago-tagoan”, he added.<br />
He also added that if only Richard had done it his brother’s way, there would have been no problem. Winnie said that Richard never made an effort to establish his residency, unlike his brother Elmer who is now mayor of Kananga, who bought a property there, built a house and stayed at the town when he planned to run for mayor way back in 2007.<br />
That way, he said, Richard could have presented electric and telephone bills in his name, to bolster his claim that he intends to make Ormoc his domicile. “Wa na unta siya’y problema”, he said.<br />
The Comelec resolution disqualifying Gomez was promulgated on Wednesday, February 17 and was anchored more on the actor’s not being able to prove his transfer of domicile.<br />
The resolution was issued by the Comelec 1st division where an Ormocanon is a member, Atty. Gregorio “Goyo” Larrazabal. Larrazabal, son of former Leyte governor Adelina “Inday” Larrazabal who was also disqualified when she failed to prove that she was a resident of Kananga, took no part in the proceedings.<br />
Goyo’s side<br />
Goyo, in a message posted at the Facebook account Better Ormoc said, “Thank you for the query on why I inhibited in the disqualification case filed against candidate Richard Gomez. Three inconvertible facts necessitated that I take no part in the proceedings. First, my uncle, Mr Marcos &#8220;Mackoy&#8221; Larrazabal is running as Mayor of Ormoc under the party&#8230; and as official candidate of Mr. Gomez. Second, another uncle, incumbent Councilor Dudi Larrazabal is running under the party of Mr. Codilla. Third, my brother Emeterio Jr, who recently passed away, was a candidate for Councilor under Mr. Gomez. It is therefore incumbent upon me to inhibit from deciding a case that will inure to the benefit or detriment of ANY of my relatives. It goes beyond the law, common decency dictates that I do not favor, whether directly or indirectly, any of my relatives &#8211; regardless of their party affiliation. I hope that this will put the matter to rest. “<br />
Meanwhile, Winnie also debunked rumors that his camp doled out millions to get a favorable decision. He said this was a claim that Gomez’s himself mentioned during a TV interview after news of his disqualification came out.<br />
Winnie said that he also understands that Gomez is going to file a motion for reconsideration, which will be treated by the commissioners en banc, and added that was his right and that is due process at work. However, he expressed confidence that the negative ruling versus Gomez would be sustained by the commissioners because of the merits of the case, and even by the Supreme Court, where he is sure Gomez will elevate his case.<br />
He added people don’t have to wait long because Comelec was dispatching pending cases lodged with the agency swiftly, because the elections is fast approaching. He added they have filed a motion with the Comelec to strike out the actor’s name from the Certified List of Candidates. He added this might not be acted upon immediately considering that Gomez is filing an MR.<br />
Perjury case vs. Richard, Lucy<br />
Winnie also clarified that the issue they raised against Gomez regarding his Community Tax Certificate is not an issue they raised at the Comelec but one that they would be using to file perjury against the actor, and even his wife Lucy.<br />
He said that as if admitting the first CTC was indeed spurious, which he underscored was used by Gomez on his Certificate of Candidacy, the actor again got another CTC, this time paying P5,000. “I don’t know who Richard is getting his advise from, but he is digging his own grave”, Winnie said in the vernacular.<br />
He said that they will use the CTC issue against Gomez on a perjury case they would be filing against him, and maybe include his wife Lucy. He warned that if company owners of products that Lucy is endorsing gets whiff of this anomaly, they might withdraw their contracts with her.<br />
As for claims that he is afraid of Gomez’s popularity, Winnie pooh-poohed this saying that why should he be afraid of Gomez and partymates. “Wa man gani mi mahadlok niadto nga ngilngig to amo kontra, sa iya pa?”, he posed.<br />
Winnie is apparently referring to their family’s going up against the Locsin and Larrazabal clans. In 1991, his father ran up against Ormoc Mayor Vicky Locsin and won. In 2001, his father again ran up against then Cong. Vicky Locsin and won. Winnie however, lost to former Cong. Carmelo Locsin for mayor of Ormoc in the same year, but the Codillas fast regained the post in 2007, with newbie Eric Codilla proclaimed mayor. Since then, the Codillas have routed their political foes, with a brother Elmer, winning as mayor of Kananga town.<br />
Winnie also challenged Gomez to substantiate his claim that he is a drug lord. He said Gomez accused him of this during an anti-drugs forum at Matag-ob, and he has witnesses to prove this. He said that if he was a drug lord, he will not bother joining politics because it would be more lucrative for him.<br />
Winnie’s priorities<br />
Meanwhile, Winnie also took the chance to bare his priorities, once he wins as congressman of the fourth district. He said that his first priority would be to improve the educational institutions in the district, saying that if people would only care to go around, they would see how dilapidated the schools are and antiquated.<br />
Second, he said, he is pushing for the construction of basic infrastructure projects like road concreting and the like. While he said his father was not able to make good of his promise to build his “Senator’s Highway” to concrete the road between Matag-ob and Palompon, he said the congressman has already replaced two dilapidated bridges that were already hazards to the riding public. Nonetheless, he said, he wants to pursue the project but “hinay-hinayon lang nato” because he knows it is a need of the people there.<br />
Another priority area is health. He said he would want to replicate the “three-in-one” health center-cum-police station-cum barangay halls all over the towns that his brother, Ormoc Mayor Eric Codilla, has done for Ormoc. He lauded his brother’s initiative, saying it was a very useful and practical project, which also brought services to the people.<br />
Winnie said that he doubts that Gomez and his partymates would win against their slate, saying that ever since it was the Codillas who ran the fourth district, people have seen a visible difference. In Palompon, he said, they always lost at the coastal areas but added he doubts if the Onates would win there again, saying that they had almost concreted all the roads there, provided electricity and water pumps.<br />
Another big project, he said, that people in Ormoc, Kananga and Albuera should expect to be implemented soon, is the asphalt overlay of its highways. He also defended the reblocking an old but still sturdy road in Ipil, saying that it was necessary to pave the way for the asphalt overlay. He apologized for the delay of the implementation of the project, saying that they did not have control over the fund releases.<br />
The congressional candidate also allowed the EV Mail to take a peek into his family life, saying he is aware that his opponents are still making a big issue out of his break-up with now Cebu governor Gwen Garcia.<br />
Winnie said that his marriage with Gwen has long been annulled and that he now has another family.<br />
“I am very happy with my family”, he said, and proudly said that one of his sons was an achiever at his school.  He has four kids with Marife namely, Cherry Ann “Cheche”, Charlie Angelo, Carlo Eufrocino and Christian Andrew.<br />
He added that he also has a comfortable relationship with his children with Gov. Garcia. “We call each other, and everything’s okay”, he added.<br />
“One thing I can say”, he said, “is that I do not have any children out of wedlock”, adding that he and Marife were legally married before they had kids. By L.M. Jimenea</p>
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