John Osmena calls Team Unity a “herd of cows”

By Ronron
March 16, 2007

“They are like a herd of cows!”

Thus said Genuine Opposition (GO) Senatorial candidate John Osmeña of the senatorial candidates of the administration’s Team Unity in a press conference Friday in Mandaluyong City.

This even as GO consistently brags that it will not resort to personality-bashing against Team Unity, but only bring up issues against it.

Osmeña came up with the comparison to prove that unlike the administration, the GO candidates are not coerced to unite, nor are they being forced to like each other.

“The members of Team Gloria are like cows, they are all herded all the time. They buy tickets for everyone, sit beside each other on the plane, walk together towards a waiting coaster, all at the expense of the government. While we use our own vehicles,” Osmeña said in Filipino.

Asked if he is envious of the arrangement of the administration candidates, he quickly replied: “Oh, no! I have been a part of that, I was already once a cow.”

Osmeña added: “I love it this way.”

He said the “oneness” being “radiated” by the administration ticket is only because “they move next to each other wherever they go.”

“That’s a forced marriage. Do you think Tessie Oreta and Chavit Singson like to go together?” said Osmeña.

Oreta was a former ally of the former President Joseph Estrada, who was accused by Singson of massive corruption in 2000, leading to his downfall in January 2001.

“If there unity is coerced, our unity is our own desire,” Osmeña said./DMS