Mayoral Forum @ Quezon City Sports Club

I was at the Quezon City Sports Club awhile ago to attend the Mayoral Forum. It is a good event to attend because the majority of the candidates were there. The candidates that were present were the following: Mel Mathay, Mike Defensor, Johnny Chang and Annie Rosa Susano. Last March 17, 2010 during the last forum that I attended at QCPU only 2 Mayoral candidates where present I mentioned it at my last post. Herbert Bautista was a no show again. This event was sponsored by the ROTARY CLUB OF MIDTOWN DILIMAN. This Forum was more intense than the last one at QCPU and it is more formal. Of course, there was an open forum and questions were thrown to the candidates. The introduction of the forum was each candidate has 10 minutes to read or present their platform. First was Johnny Chang, he wants to remove the employment permit and to lower the tax here in Quezon City and better benefits for local employees, U-turn slot to be changed and also the public hospital has to improve. Mike Defensor's turn, he wants to have more budget for the educational system and health care system and senior citizens has to have more privileges and benefits. Mel Mathay wants to sustain business policy and he was able to prevent the 300%increase in real property tax, and his target is the non-employment issue that is still high in QC. He really wants to change our city by developing more business sites and wants to have a better education plan for the youth. Annie Susano said that her family was the descendant of "Tandang Sora" and told the audience that they donated their buildings for education and doesn't do this for the money because she loves the people in QC.

The Open forum begun, most of the questions were about education, poverty, crime rate, health care, senior citizen benefits and development of business sites. Mostly their plans for QC is good. The main candidate that stands out amongst the rest for me is The Ex-Mayor Mel Mathay its just because that he sites every thing that he has done and he will improve everything in QC especially  in education, health care, senior citizen benefits, local employment especially public teachers and business development programs for more job opportunities. For me, the forum would be more intense if the current Vice Mayor Herbert Bautista was there because most of the questions are still the on-going problems of QC. But then again, he was not there for the forum. I think it is a great exposure for the candidates so that they can answer the current problems of QC lively and thoroughly and they have to explain why they deserve to be the mayor of QC, the richest city in Metro Manila. I'm just posting this because I really want Quezon City to be in a better administration. So I hope who ever wins this election, he or she can bring Quezon City to new heights. Because this city is so beautiful, all we need is a better leader and a better administration. But of course, the change is still up to the people who lives in QC.  So like the slogan of the political service group, Citizen Change "VOTE OR DIE".