I am officially a fan of Dick Gordon. This guy has balls. LOL! Here’s a video of him collaborating with MOYMOY PALABOY using the “In the Jungle” theme music thingy. Simply hilarious, entertaining, and it just makes Dick Gordon more human. To whoever thought of doing this, you are genius.

Now that’s how you do Viral Videos.

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I was able to watch the recent Presidential forum in DLSU which was aired on ANC. Among all the candidates who participated, Senator Dick Gordon got my attention the most. His answers were direct-to-the-point and he presented solutions and plans that were logical and actually doable. Next to Gordon would be Gilbert Teodoro who also delivered quite well for the entire evening.

During the evening, Dick Gordon talked a program that I will support 110%. He discussed about giving free Kindle Readers to 17 million public school students. He even went on to discuss how he would get funds for that project. He also shared that he would raise the salaries of public school teachers to P40,000. For more details on how he’ll get the funding for these projects, check the original article on ABS-CBN.

I put a high premium on education and embracing new media and Dick Gordon pretty much played up to all of my “wants” in a presidential candidate. I’m not saying I’m voting for him but man this guy got a lot of points tonight. He’s definitely on my radar screen… but there’s no chance in hell I’m voting for his VP, Bayani.

Here’s a summary of the event:

Lastly, I found JC Delos Reyes to be the weakest candidate during the debate. His answer on sex education is just flawed and insane. I think the Kapatiran party made a huge mistake in fielding him and his continued participation in events like this will just drag down the political and social capital of the party. I’m looking forward to a debate that he can actually shine in so that he can redeem himself.

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Senator Dick Gordon, chairman of the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) is now under heavy fire on Facebook. Stories are going around on how his staff or the production people decided to delay giving away the relief goods because he wasn’t there yet and hasn’t delivered his speech. This was narrated by a certain Martin Cervantes who was a volunteer for the PNRC in one of the Bayanihan operations on September 30, 2009.

Here’s the blog entry for your perusal:

To think the deluge of volunteerism support and the “Bayanihan” spirit of the Filipino has somewhat made me believe that this country is indeed worth figthing for, someone destroys it for me. Here’s my story…. On September 30, 2009, our company decided to volunteer with various efforts around the Metro as a genuine act of helping out those who have been ravaged by Typhoon Ondoy. I was placed under the group to support the mission of the Philippine Red Cross in Quezon City. Call time was at 8 am sharp and we got to the Evacuation center by Novaliches at around 10 am. As we were briefed what to do, we also initiated a system to keep things in order because of the number of people. At around 10:45 we were ready and so was everyone else because they’ve been there since the early part of the morning but we were informed by one of the PRC staff on site, we couldn’t give out the goods yet because “protocol” dictates that the PRC chair….Mr. Dick Gordon was going to visit and deliver some sort of speech or at least hand out the goods. We were infomed by a certain Ms. Torres that this was how it goes…we reasoned out with her that the people were lined up already and OBVIOUSLY hungry waiting for so many hours as it was. We also asked if the goods were from MR. GORDON and we were told it was donations to the Red Cross. So we kinda hinted ….we can give it then! But wait we did, by around noon, no word from the DICK and people were getting rowdy saying “Ibigay nyo na! (Give it already!) The number of people was increasing and we knew the goods provided to us would be gone in an instant. It was only a small container van of Air 21 that housed the goods and I’d approximate there were at least a 1,000 people on site.

At this point, my fellow colleagues were exasperated at what was going on. WE COULD STAY THERE the whole day to help out and make sure the people there would at least be spared from any further hurt (if losing a house wasn’t hurtful enough) by doing something significant, instead we were made to wait doing nothing just because someone wanted to use the program for his political gain. I mean, the bag only contained rice, canned goods and noodles…would it be so DIFFICULT to give this away already??!!! We were wearing our company shirts…so it looked like WE WERE THE ONES DELAYING the damn operation.

The Barangay Captain got a hold of the mic and told the people “Maswerte tayo na tayo ang pinuntahang Barangay, hinihintay lang natin ang mga panauhin natin, kaya’t wag kayong mag tampo” (We’re lucky to be the Barangay that will be visited, we’re just waiting for our guests, so don’t fret).

At almost 2 pm, I don’t know what happened but the Brgy. Captain suddenly asked all Senior citizens and pregnant women to make a new line (from the original lines) and then he started to instruct us to give out the goods…and that’s when all hell broke loose. Obviously the people in the original line weren’t too happy with the situation…even if…the idea was noble.

In the end, the stubs to claim the relief goods were more than the relief goods themselves…and I could see a lot of upset people at what had just happened….oh and the clincher of it all…..DICK MOTHER(*@#$!%^) GORDON DID NOT SHOW UP. He wanted this obviously to be a POLITICAL event for him and then decided that maybe it wasn’t worth showing up for after all.

I can’t believe that a time like this when ORDINARY people are coming together, POLITICIANS REMAIN THE SAME…AND I can only PRAY MR. GORDON that you be granted some sort of WISDOM (OR BALLS) to DECIDE WHAT YOU REALLY WANT TO DO. Don’t go on making PROTOCOLS that are STUPID AND INANE especially in times like this….people have lost their loved ones, their houses, basically everything they have and you still have the GALL to use this to YOUR Advantage.

Believe me, if you ever run for office, I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR YOU and I hope everyone who sees this blog does the same thing. It’s funny a week ago on ANC you told viewers that the reason why we’re in a rut is because our government does not have a CLEAR SYSTEM….so please EXPOUND to me how your PROTOCOL of overseeing the distribution of relief goods was more of SYSTEM rather than a POLITICAL STUNT.

DICK. I honestly believe your name suits you quite well.

And here’s a conversation on Facebook as posted by Manolo Quezon:

Senator Gordon, you should address this matter ASAP. I have high respect for you since your starting days as a Mayor but this is just too much to take. I heard that your guesting on Boys Night Out tonight on Magic 89.9FM. Maybe you can answer this allegation on air?

UPDATE (1): I posted this article on the Facebook wall of Magic 89.9FM and I also sent an e-mail to the DJ’s. Senator Gordon gave a statement on air and explained what happened. Let me quote my good friend Kevin who was able to hear Senator Gordon on the radio:

He’s on BNO RIGHT NOW. He explained what happened was that the barangay told the people to ‘wait for the Senator’ and it was not his order. He was stuck on traffic so instead of 6 places, 4 places lang napuntahan nya.

Hopefully this won’t happen again. Also, someone should call the attention of the organizers. We need a more organized approach to the relief operations.

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