Garcia and Tijam won by a margin of 17 to 13, and 18 to 12, over Mogado and Cusipag, respectively. Their victory affirms that PPCO is a self-regulating association governed by a Constitution & By-laws and a Code of Ethics for journalists, a platform opposed by the Mogado-Cusipag team who contended that PPCO is merely a social club.
ConGen Junever Mahilum-West inducted the winners shortly after the results. She congratulated all the candidates and the PPCO officials for the efficient and transparent voting and expressed the hope that with the new leadership, PPCO is now poised to achieve even greater unity and strength.
Go to The Filipino Web Channel to view the video: http://youtu.be/nnaQCWbIgWI
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Transcript of the election campaign speech given by TESSIE CUSIPAG, Editor/Publisher of Balita, who ran for vice-president of PPCO:
I am one of the founders of this group and I have been with you for a long long time now since we founded the organization and I am very open and I'm very honest and I do not quarrel with anyone - not unless I'm provoke. I become a tiger and I become a wild dog when I'm provoke and, but luckily none of us have ever ever did that - none of you have ever did that to me.
And, I'd like to say that, we should also always remember that we are not all journalists. I myself, I am not a journalist and I never claim to be a journalist. I write but I am not a journalist. And so I would like to take care of those people that are not writing here. We have all kinds - we have photographers we have, contributors we have everything here. We just want to maintain the camaraderie that we had before - we never had any quarrels - there was no politics inside - it's just pure fun. And that's what we wanna keep. I am not saying I'll be very good at it. If you want to vote for me, if you don't wanna vote for me I'm still ok. I will be here. Regardless. I will not - I don't have to hold a position to serve. I am always here and you know me. Ok? Thank you.
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Transcript of the election campaign speech given by MOGI MOGADO, Associate Editor of Balita, who ran for president of PPCO:
Mga kasama, just to be a political sport, I want to tell you now that kung manalo si Ka Hermie, my good friend, Hermie, you can have my support.
I read his material last night and I could not believe what I was reading.
The big question is does Hermie care about PPCO? Does he ever know PPCO the way we are? I have other questions. Number 1:Does Hermie think that PPCO is just for journalists? Remember now in his speech - he never mentioned anything about the others. What about our photographers? What about our other staff?
If I am president, I will give equal treatment, equal respect to all of us. Number 2: In his material you have noticed that he mentioned about other staff other than PPCO for example. I think he wants to transform PPCO towards social justice. I have no quarrel with the CASJ. But are you prepared to be an adjunct of CASJ? Number 3, in our discussions, what is good for PPCO. Ano ba ang gagawin natin para successful and ating organization na eto. And there was an informal agreement that we should not encourage publishers and owners of radios or whatever to be president because it means that PPCO will become an adjunct of publication. And we cannot allow that. It is ok. Hermie does not care about PPCO so long as makakuha siya ng mga trophy points. Ako? I don't have publication I don't have nothing to sell. I'll stop there before I get carried away. And I'm gonna give you my one hundred and one percent, not fifty percent but one hundred and one percent.
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Transcript of the election campaign speech given by ROSE TIJAM who ran for vice-president of PPCO:
I am one of the founders of the Philippine Press Club and I have been there since day one. The Philippine Press Club is not just a social club as a lot of us understand it. And we have been engaged in many political actions and information matters.
Social clubs have parties and social gatherings, PPCO have them, too, but we go beyond these. But we have a special mandate in the community journalism. The Philippine Press Club also covers not just journalists or writers but broadcasters, television people, admin staff, delivery, all publications included, printers and all those things.
I support the platform of my colleague, Hermie Garcia, and I will continue to provide serious leadership in PPCO and in the community.
I feel that we need to expand the education and information program of our organization and promote unity as well.
We should be familiar with our constitution and our bylaws and code of ethics for journalists, and professionalism should be practiced as well.
I am for unity, for strength, for developing our organization and community as PPCO members and members of the community.
I always want to emphasize credibility, respect and dignity in any organization or in any group. We are mature people, we are professionals. People look up to us. We have a reputation to protect, a reputation to maintain. This we have to be very careful about.
With that I know that many of you know that I am in touch with most of you because we meet in other community activities. We are going to exercise our fair judgment of each other, judgment of leadership and as well as in our role in the community.
People look up to us and we have that to look into and we have that to protect.
So with that I wish everyone good luck and all the very best for our organization.
Thank you.
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Article written by HERMIE GARCIA for his campaign for the presidency of the Philippine Press Club of Ontario: http://www.philippinereporter.com/2013/03/08/notebook-ppco-principled-press-for-camaraderie-and-openness/
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