Tesay Glinoga

Advocacies.

Tesay has initiated the project, “March Na! An Ode to Women.” for Women’s Month. She organizes gender sensitivity seminars to men to raise their awareness on the plight of women. She also organized “Men for Women Movement that jumpstarted a 10K and 20K Race Walk among men which she envisions to become an international race in the future. She organized brisk walking trainings in Metro Manila and promoted it as a better exercise than jogging.

Interview With Manila Times.

In her small niche in her office, Bilancia, and even before that, she prefers to work quietly in an almost semi-hermitic life for the past years, modest as not to announce her little achievements, and chooses to be forgotten. With so much of humility to stay in the sidelines, Tesay now finds it difficult to advertise herself in her political battle against the perceived political giants who have learned the art and skill of making noise and empty promises during election season.

The Decision To Run For Mayor.

That Saturday during the onslaught of the typhoon, I was trapped in San Carlos Seminary from morning till afternoon. The rains were strong and the traffic was not moving anymore. A neighbor called me up to inform me that floodwater was rising to knee-deep. I was not really worried kasi mataas ang lugar ng office. When there were floods in the past, people took shelter in my office. Nagpapainom pa nga ako ng kape pag minsang merong stranded sa harap ng office. But not this time; my office was not spared. Anyway, I could not return to check my office; everywhere was flooded. I went home to my condo unit here in Legazpi Village. I was able to check on the office on Monday afternoon yet.

Tesay Glinoga would like to thank all of her supporters for being there for her, for believing in her vision, for standing firm and for backing her up to stand against the political machineries in the Philippines. Tesay Glinoga, you are are a winner to your supporters.

The numbers she got were almost exactly what she expected. The funds she was expecting to help her with the campaign did not materialize. What did she do? She continued with the campaign with zero funds, no machinery. Was she irresponsible? No, she waged an honest campaign and made a political statement.

She is going to write about her experiences and her observations for her two-cents’ worth. The votes she got are a political statement; they are pure. Imagine, a virtual unknown and her supporters trusted her with their votes. She would like to think that they are not wasted.
This is just the beginning for Tesay Glinoga. Now that the elections are over she will make a great impact by exposing what she had observed and experienced before and during the elections by writing in detail—most especially ”the poverty or the pseudo poverty that government, both local and national, have created a monster of and is now almost beyond solution and the rampant vote buying.”

“I am quite happy that I got less than 2,000 votes…..from people who truly believe in me”, Tesay said.

The next chapter of Tesay Glinoga’s campaign will be about this.

Tesay Glinoga

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Interview With Manila Times.

The Decision To Run For Mayor.

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