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CAMPAIGN 2007
 


Batangan News Service

Sergie "Serging" Atienza: The son also rises

BATANGAS CITY (Philippines).
Following are the candidates for member of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (Provincial Board) of Batangas in the May 14, 2007 elections ("r" denotes re-electionist):

Benjamin Bausas

Consuelo Malabanan District 1
Benjamin Bausas (r), Kampi.
Emmanuel Calingasan, Lakas-CMD.
Ramiro Magnaye, Kampi.
Consuelo Malabanan (r), Lakas-CMD.
Roman Rosales, Lakas-CMD.

Roman Rosales

Rosales was mayor of Lemery for 1995-2001 after a stint as councilors representative on the Provincial Board.

Sergie Atienza District 2
Arturo Atienza
Joel Atienza, Kampi.
Sergie "Serging" Atienza, Lakas-CMD.
Godofredo Berberabe (r), Kampi.
Florencio de Loyola (r), Kampi; and
Portia Ayao Lazar-Panaligan, Lakas-CMD.

In 2004 Arturo Atienza got 2,249 out of 830,833 votes cast for governor.

Joel Atienza seeks promotion from the municipal board of Batangas City.

Business executive Sergie Atienza, son and namesake of three-term Bokal Serging Atienza, is a De La Salle psychology graduate.

Cecilio Hernandez District 3
Rodlfo Balba (r), Kampi.
Chona Dimayuga, Lakas-CMD.
Cecilio Hernandez (r), Lakas-CMD.
Arturo Malijan, Kampi.
Gregorio Nora, Uno.

Balba and Nora, along with Bausas and Mrs Malabanan of District 1 and Berberabe of District 2, are among the Evercrest Thirteen. The Thirteen were Sanggunian members charged with corruption by then outgoing governor Hermilando Mandanas on the eve of the 2004 elections for allowing Jose Go to recover a golf course that had lapsed into ownership of the Province for tax delinquency. The case is pending resolution in the Ombudsman's Office.

Hernandez was twice deposed and twice restored as Majority Floor Leader of the outgoing Board. A bachelor, "Ilio" raises fighting cocks but he himself does not gamble.

District 4
Roberto Asa, Uno.
Amado Carlos Bolilia, Lakas-CMD.
Francisco Calingasan, Kampi.
Danilo Gusie, PDP-Laban.
Amado Kalaw Jnr, Kampi.
Fernando Mitra, Kampi.
Edgar Timones, Lakas-CMD; and
Mabelle Virtusio, Lakas-CMD.

Businessman "Caloy" Bolilia is the husband of outgoing Board Member Lianda "Siling Labuyo" Bolilia of Padre Garcia.

Kalaw was an also-ran for governor in 1995.

Ms Virtusio was on the 1998-2001 Board for the Sangguniang Kabataan.

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