Sunday, September 21, 2008

Priest hits Panlilio's detractors

By Jovi T. De Leon

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- Running priest Fr. Roberto Reyes has berated Vice Governor Joseller Guiao, members of the Provincial Board (PB), and MalacaƱang for their alleged attempts to bring the administration of Governor Eddie Panlilio to its knees.

Reyes even described the current political turmoil in the province as "new eruption" in the likes of the 1991 Mount Pinatubo explosion.

He said this would send the province back to its miserable state before the priest-turned- governor assumed the provincial executive's helm.

The fiery and outspoken Reyes visited the province last Friday to express his support for the governor and celebrate what he calls as "liturgy of the stone."

The stones that came from Mt. Pinatubo were blessed and later on placed by participants and Panlilio in a "Kubol ng Pag-asa" poster lying at the Capitol's front steps.

Before he celebrated the short "liturgy," Reyes took a crack at Guiao, challenging him to take over as governor and "show that Pampanga is not corrupt and that he could rid the Capitol of all its evil."

He assailed MalacaƱang for keeping mum on the problems of the province. He also lashed back at the governor's detractors for their "dirty patronage politics."

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