Hello Pips,
QUOTE FOR SUNSTAR CEBU DATED JANUARY 30, 2007
MAYOR Tommy Osmeña has reason to be bothered by reports that former Cebu first district congressman Jose “Do-dong” Gullas is running against him in May. When Tommy came home from exile in the US in 1986, he asked Dodong to be his runningmate but was politely refused.
Tommy’s offer was recognition not only of Dodong’s moral and technical competence to hold public office but also of the considerable drawing power of the Gullas name, not just in the old third (now the first) congressional district but also in Cebu City where the family-owned University of the Visayas is located.
But relax, Tom. I do not think Dodong will ever go back to politics, much less aspire to take over your throne and its attendant headaches. Somebody is trying to scare you and you’re playing into his hands. Your hatred towards Dodong’s brother, Eddie, is public knowledge, but how could you have made such idiotic claim about the Gullases conspiring to annex Cebu City to Talisay City if you haven’t been affected by the scuttlebutt about Dodong’s candidacy? And what made it imperative for you to start distributing health cards, which you openly admit, is an act of politicking?