“Mayor Alfredo Lim has no other choice but to resort to dirty tactics because his sinister plans have been exposed and he couldn’t explain why election returns containing PCOS machine numbers were being prepared at the City Hall.”
Thus said Ali Atienza, campaign manager of Mayor Lito Atienza, following reports that Lim’s camp have been blaming them for the proliferation of “red cards” carrying the pictures of Atienza and Bonjay and were intended to confuse voters regarding the place and number of their respective precincts.
Ali said this is again one of the dirty tactics of Dirty Harry meant to make the people angry at them, just like what Lim did during the 2007 elections.
“They’ve already done this to us before—they gave away cellphone cards with my picture to the media people. But the cellcards were empty, making me look bad. Now they’re doing it again,” the younger Atienza said.
Ali added that Lim should use common sense, saying that if they were indeed the ones behind the proliferation of the red cards, they wouldn’t bother placing the pictures of Atienza and Bonjay knowing that the people would get mad at them.
Ali suspects that nobody but Lim’s camp are behind all of these because they couldn’t explain why election results were being prepared at the EDP unit which is under the Office of the Mayor.
“They couldn’t explain the documents found in their office, that’s why they were fabricating issues against us. Why do they already have the election results and the numbers of PCOS machines that are not even delivered yet to the precincts? They should explain all of these,” Ali said.
Ali also called on Manilans and the media not to be swayed by the dirty tactics of Lim’s group.
“We’ve been expecting all of these because they also created a lot of scenarios in 2007 to provoke outrage among the people. I’m sure they will still come up with more foolish ideas, but I know Manilans are intelligent voters. I also trust the media. Lim can no longer fool the people now, they know him too well,” he said.
“Know their precinct numbers, vote early and don’t be fooled by Lim’s dirty tactics,” he advised Manilans.
even us here in california,usa are having a BIG question mark in our faces and minds. my co workers in the nursing home were so wracked about the result but what can u expect if your opponent is dirty lim.i hope you guys will fight for it in a legal manner…do something or else—pag natalo si mayor atienza…i will abjure my being a manilenyo!