How's your elected local official doing?
By archon309
@archon309 (404)
Philippines
September 10, 2010 7:16pm CST
A few months after the election, your can probably see now the performance of the elected local government officials? How do you rate (1-10) them and why? You need not mention your place.
Here, I give the local mayor a 4. First he replaced the not so good traffic enforcers with worse ones. Just imagine, they will signal the drivers from (let's say) North going south to go... then after a while they will signal the East-West traffic to go before they signal the North-South traffic to stop! How stupid is that?
Then just the other day, they are installing traffic signs (no signs yet though) on the center island. Guess what color... NAVY BLUE! The mayor's political color! Before they were yellow! Although it was also used as a political color but is yellow not the standard background color of traffic signs?
4 responses
@mspitot (3824)
• Philippines
12 Sep 10
He's strict. He's good but he's having health problems lately. He's already rich and he's still a bachelor even though he's a bit old. He's intelligent and he lived in America. He wants our town to progress like the places he lived in America. People say that he doesn't have any successor so he will not be corrupt.
@archon309 (404)
• Philippines
12 Sep 10
Well.. if a mayor is really good, he's likely to extend his term. Let's pray for his health. :)
@TheAdvocate (2392)
• Philippines
11 Sep 10
Not as well as the previous administration. Now I regret voting for them! There are more beggars around city hall, our streets are dirty (unlike before) and discipline was thrown out of the window. Whereas before people would not dare cross streets except in pedestrian lanes because there were a lot of policemen, not people don't care and cross anywhere. It's driving me crazy! I give them a 1.
@TheAdvocate (2392)
• Philippines
11 Sep 10
That's what my mother said too. I agree that there is no such thing as instant change but you see I live in Marikina. When BF and MCF were active here, we did not have a lot of beggars around. But when their term ended, it was as if we went back to the old Marikina. We did have a lot of beggars here but our local government was very active in addressing this problem and through the years I noticed their decrease. I witnessed one time when a beggar was being cajoled into going to a place by a DSWD worker during the former administration. They did not arrest the mendicant instead persuaded her to go to a shelter, which she eventually agreed. It's sad that just because the newly elected mayor is a political enemy, he let go of MCF's program even if they are good for the city.
@archon309 (404)
• Philippines
12 Sep 10
hmm.. but based on what you have posted, changes were apparent already. Sad to say, it seems that the current administration has not maintained what the previous one had started. :(
@magtibaygom (4858)
• Philippines
11 Sep 10
I will rate our mayor of our town 1. He's not doing his job well and he and his friends are just wasting taxpayer's money. They have built a Five Million Pesos concrete bridge with substandard materials right after they won the election. Heavy rains poured the following days and the bridge was washed out in ruins. In less than a week, the Five Million Pesos turned into trash.
@archon309 (404)
• Philippines
12 Sep 10
uh oh.. the engineer could kiss his license doing that and your mayor could say hello to the obudsman.
