Guv'nor bet lost because mayors pocket his monies

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY – One of the reasons why a gubernatorial bet in the eastern part of Pangasinan lost because other mayors  did not distribute to voters the monies he instructed them to do, a high elective official told reporters.

As reaction to the news article by this newspaper’s Guico Nixes Analogy Espino Can Beat Him, the official, who asked not to be named, said that other chief executives of the local government units in the Fifth Congressional District did not distribute  the funds given to them for the voters intended by defeated gubernatorial candidate former congressman Mark O. Cojuangco in the May 9, 2016 election.

“Binulsa nila ang pera a week before the day of the election,” he cited

Those mayors abused the trust of the former solon by withholding his money for the voters while allegedly accepting that of his rival and spent them to the electorates there, he expounded.

“These mayors took the fund offered by the rival of their benefactor and used them to give to the voters to assure his victory while they pocket the money given to them by former congressman Mark”.

In that election Amado I. Espino, III outpointed Cojuangco by garnering129, 403 votes while the latter settled for 86, 458 votes in the district.
Espino won the general election in the 44 towns three cities' province.

The eight towns and one city’s district has 324,319 voters (November 2018 Comelec data) making her  third in the most number of voters in the six districts' Pangasinan Province. 

It is composed of Urdaneta City, the towns of Alcala, Bautista, Binalonan, Laoac, Pozzurobio, Santo Tomas, Sison, and Villasis.

Urdaneta City has the most numbers of voters with 87, 916 (Comelec November 2018 data)  followed by  Pozorrubio with 47, 659. Binalonan has 36, 717 voters only.