Tomas ‘won’t help’ Burdens
CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña yesterday made known his thoughts on the Miss Cebu 2009 controversy, and the Burdens were in the firing line.
He announced that Miss Cebu 2009 Kris Tiffany Janson will be honored in the 2010 Charter Day celebration as outstanding citizen, for keeping her silence despite the issue over the Texters’ Choice award during the Jan. 14 coronation night.
The mayor, who returned to Cebu City last Tuesday after his seventh chemotherapy treatment in the US, said discussing the issue is a “waste of time.”
“They (Janson family) have the right to complain also and they could have met with their lawyer also. The silence they demonstrated is a conduct becoming of a real Miss Cebu…She is deserving as Miss Cebu. Kaning usa, Miss Cell Phone ra man (The other one is merely Miss Cell Phone),” Osmeña told a press conference.
He was apparently referring to reports that the cellular phone that served as prize for the Texters’ Choice award was “changed” to a low-end brand.
He also said that the Cebu City Tourism Commission (CCTC) should not have apologized to the Burdens as the incident was the fault of just “one a--hole,” referring to Bruce Bollozos, who gave the wrong name for the emcee to read as winner of the Texters’ Choice award.
Bollozos has since apologized for the “honest mistake.”
On behalf of the commission, then acting Vice Mayor Hilario Davide III also apologized to the Burdens before City Hall reporters.
Davide had reiterated that Kimberley was the “real and only winner of the Miss Cebu Globe Texters’ Choice Award, and (the CCTC) sincerely apologizes to her, her family, friends, and supporters for the irresponsible mistake.”
Osmeña said no apology should have been made because it means the CCTC admitted it has a hand in the incident, when only one person caused the whole fiasco.
“Maybe you can express your sympathies, but to apologize? Let them file their case, no problem (in that),” the mayor said.
“This is the most over-exposed, ridiculous issue I’ve ever seen in all my years as mayor,” he said when asked if he intends to meet the Burdens while he is here.
He is set to return to the U.S. by the end of the month to undergo surgery to remove his urinary bladder in April.
In separate interviews, Dr. Rowena Burden, Kimberley’s mother, said the mayor’s comment was “insensitive and tactless” and “adding insult to injury.”
She said she will consult the family and their lawyer on their next move, complaining that they thought they could get justice from the City Government.
“Aside from being disappointed, we are so hurt by his insensitive and tactless comment. As a mayor, he should not do that…We were told he will do a drastic action (when he arrives). Diay, si Kim ang la-iton (But it’s Kim who’s being insulted),” Dr. Burden said.
“Wa ko mag-expect ingon ani diay ang i-estorya sa mayor…Nag-add siya’g insult to injury. It’s so disappointing kay mas professional makig-deal ang iyang administrator. Dili man gud mi dato, high society. Ang iyang estorya pang-standby sa dalan man (I didn’t expect that this would be what the mayor will say…he just added insult to injury. It’s so disappointing because his administrator can better deal with us professionally. We’re not rich…the way he talks is for bystanders in the streets),” she added.
It was City Administrator Francisco Fernandez who told her that the mayor will do a “drastic action” when he is back in the city. (RHM)
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Tomas ‘won’t help’ Burdens
Originally Posted by juleskiboi
what's this issue about the Miss Texter's choice diay mga guys, enlighten me gamay pls...
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