Valerie Santos – DC Deputy Mayor
August 17, 2009
Written by News Team, in Photo Gallery
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The Manila Mail
A fortnightly Filipino newspaper in Washington, DC, United States. Site offers news in English and Filipino, aimed primarily at expats in the USA.
“Santos, 36, is responsible for implementing Mayor Adrian Fenty’s economic development vision and managing a development pipeline worth more than $13 billion comprising public-private housing, retail, office and parks projects throughout the district.”
I’m impressed. Where does she plan to reside in the future because she can be governor and president someday, or does she want to be the Mayor of Washington, D.C. instead?
Mayors are not usually a stepping stone to be the American President because they are stereotyped of having “tunnel vision”, while a governor can more likely run a conglomerate of metropolises and smaller subsidiaries.
The governorship is a more suitable background to be Chief Executive than just mayor.
A woman with politics and business development in her BIODATA, with the government owning private banks and General Motors, she is earning the qualifications to be C.E.O. and President of the United States of America, not just president on TV.
A vice-president nominee while mayor is a better stepping stone than just a mayor running to be the Top Dog.
She might be a Bulldog based on her ambitions so far, a $13 billion budget, wow!
Daniel Escurel Occeno – danielocceno@ymail.com
Washington D.C. is not in a State but is bordered by Virginia and Maryland. Santos has to reside in a state to be governor, I thought.
If she decides to be Mayor of Washington D.C.; can she run? Because some cities you had to be born in the city to run for mayor and it will be more difficult for her to be President of the United States with Mayor only in her Biodata.
Since I do not know her place of residence, Valarie can establish residence back in her birthplace of San Francisco, California and be considered a commuter (the red eye) to work as deputy mayor and run for Governor of California where she will have more support and a better chance to win the presidency if she can become Governor of California.
There are plenty of Filipino Americans in California to help her win, probably more than movie stars that helped the current governor.
She needs a juggernaut of foot soldiers for a natural-born immigrant to win and she has to court the powerful media of TV, Radio, and newspapers of the East Coast (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and CNN) not just the Midwest, to be president.
As much as hundreds of thousands of Filipinos per city while organized with yearly festivals and regular meetings, Valerie will have blocks of streets in Filipino Communities in every major city in the United States that will give her a realistic chance to be president, but she has to win the primaries to be seriously considered by the entire country.
Take the first stepping stone, run for Governor of California and win the primary in June.
Daniel Escurel Occeno – danielocceno@ymail.com