In a recent blogger event, QC Mayor candidate Mike Defensor laid out a strong challenge to Vice-Mayor Herbert Bautista. He shared with us official documents showing that Herbert spent 30% of his 750M budget on food and drinks in the last 3 years. There were also waivers attached signed by Herbert saying that no inspection was needed to physically validate the orders. 30% of 750M is roughly 230M-240M pesos and that’s no small amount. That money could have gone a long way in rehabilitating government hospitals like the one in East Avenue (where I was operated on with no anesthetics).
Why does Herbert need to answer this
If Vice-Mayor Herbert Bautista really did spend 30% of his budget on food and drinks, I’m afraid to entrust to the guy the 10-12 BILLION budget of Quezon City for 2010. That’s a huge amount and if he’s already shown that he can’t properly handle his budget then I have no idea how much of the 10B-12B will actually go into social services. Note that I’m not condemning Herbert now. What I want is for him to answer these serious allegations. There are just two questions:
1. Did you really spend 30% of your budget in the last year on food and drinks?
2. If yes, why?
I would like to take this opportunity to call out to any supporters, staff, or campaign teams of Vice-Mayor Herbert Bautista. I am more than willing to organize a free blogger event for you to answer these allegations so that you also have a voice. Mike Defensor made a pretty convincing case against you and I won’t be surprised if the bloggers will be swayed to support him if you don’t speak up.
To Mike Defensor’s Team
I haven’t been following the case since day 1 and I wasn’t able to ask this during the blogger event but I’ll ask this now. Hopefully someone in Mike’s team will be able to read and answer on his behalf. If you already have a solid case against Herbert and you have the evidence to back it up, have you filed cases against him already? If yes, that’s great. If no… why?
Thank you to Mike Defensor and his family for inviting us into his home. Here’s to hoping that Herbert will do the same (kahit ‘wag sa bahay okay lang 
).
Pictures courtesy of Rochelle Chua
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Good insight. I do hope both camps can answer. Carlo, you’re doing great. Voter Awareness still the best to counter “trapos” in the government. God Bless!
Hi Carlo,
Bistek said NO to your offer..?
Sorry Victorina just had to write about it…
http://donavictorina.blogspot.com/2010/03/bistek-refuses-carlo-ople-offer.html
Hey Amiel,
Thanks for the link. I posted a reply on your post. Please do check it out when you can.
Cheers,
Carlo
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you mike difensor is such a trash!.wag ka mag malinis coz ur the one behind sa mga baklas at detached poster/banner of your rivals…shit ka!.you must play fair and squarely!..campaign period palang but you show us your true color!.panu na kung manalo kpa!?stupid!.hunyango!……………corrupt at magnanakaw ka din!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!kapal ng mukha mong pulitiko ka!!!!!!!!!bird have thesame feather flock together but your the crab!!!!!!!harapin mo fear mo to be defeated ng man to man!….trydor!……
Herbert ang mananalo!
Siya ang karapat dapat maging Mayor ng Quezon City! Herbert “Bistek” Bautista!!!