Just a few things though.

1. It’s fuss, not fuzz. Fuzz is fine hair growth either on one’s skin, similar to molds or “amag”. Fuss is what you mean.

2. I think it’s been made known far and wide that the BF posters are considered campaign material just like the other politician’s “welcome to {insert location here}” posters.

3. Being anti-BF may not necessarily mean anti-government, but of course you are entitled to your interpretation, as well as your little spot on this blog.

I have been following the news on television and the internet regarding your move against the shenanigans of Chairman Bayani Fernando of the MMDA. Now I realize that this may be exactly what he was aiming for. The banners were put there as bait, which he knew someone would eventually speak out against. Now that you and Mayor Binay have spoken about the banners and the traffic barriers etc, he is now (well at least his banners are) on national TV, instead of just on EDSA.

I think he knew this all along. Bayani Fernando knows that all publicity, whether it be good or bad publicity, is good for him.

I do hope, Congressman Golez, that your resolution will prosper in the house. I cannot bear to think that we are being faced with someone as Machiavellian as Bayani Fernando who thinks he can rule this country some day.

Congressman Golez, my apologies for thinking that you delegate the handling of your email to your staff, I told my father about this and he is of the same mind as you are. Email is very private.

The pessimist in me is anticipating all the negative reactions the pro-MMDA camp will have against your resolution: Why zero in on Bayani Fernando when there are other much more important matters at hand; What gives you the right to investigate us when we work in the streets in the heat while you sit in your airconditioned offices …

We’ve heard this from them several times and we will hear them again in various other forms.

I believe there are more of us in the same mindset, that people can do their jobs effectively without having to paste their faces on MRT columns, that due process cannot be sacrificed for expediency, and that while one man can make a difference it can be done by example and influence, not by force.

Thank you for your visit, Congressman Golez.

Yes, it was I who emailed you earlier. For your info, I personally handle my emails as I consider my communications very private unless I disclose them myself.

For your info, I filed the House Resolution now numbered HR 511 and this is the wrtie-up in Inquirer Online:

Breaking News / Metro
Solons seeks probe of MMDA chair’s projects

By Maila Ager
INQUIRER.net

Posted date: April 03, 2008

MANILA, Philippines — A resolution seeking an investigation of the “huge personal tarpaulins” of Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Bayani Fernando, the agency’s U-turn lanes, pink fences and other projects, has been filed at the House of Representatives.

House Resolution 511, filed by Parañaque Representative Roilo Golez on Thursday, also seeks to determine how much money had been spent for the MMDA projects.

The resolution also cited other MMDA projects such as pink urinals, pink road signs, and pink lanes.

It also noted what it described as “makeshift, topsy-turvy” U-turn lanes in various major thoroughfares, like the ones along newly widened Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City. The resolution said the U-turn lanes are perceived to be “traffic hazards and obstructions, and eating up lanes, thus wasting the hundred of millions of pesos used to widen and improve the said avenue.”

Golez zeroed in on huge tarpaulin signs bearing Fernando’s picture on posts and the centerlines of EDSA, saying these “tend to uglify, instead of beautify, Metro Manila” and to “annoy or offend the senses and unduly obstruct the natural view of the landscape [and] distract or obstruct the view of the public.”

He said the tarpaulin signs could be classified as a public nuisance.

Golez also said the investigation may look into the possibility Fernando may be using government funds, through the MMDA projects, to advance his own political ambition.

Fernando is reportedly planning to run for president in 2010.

“The MMDA chairman, in many instances, has categorically expressed his desire to run for higher office and there is concern that he is using his office and substantial public funds, through the aforementioned tarpaulin, for his personal political interest in violation of anti-graft laws and the code of conduct or public officials,” the resolution said.