A man of honor

There’s a new Sarah in town --and she’s the one with the “h”.

- Joseph T. Gonzales

Sarah Discaya and husband Curlee, for all their self-styled humble beginnings, have managed to land splat onto our history books. And not just that --she’s managed to push the other Sara out from the front pages.

What being accused of siphoning off a trillion or so can do for one’s newsworthiness. In a few short years, after flinging herself into the heart of infrastructure contracts, Sarah has amassed spectacular wealth worthy of being featured in lifestyle channels. Enough, in fact, to run for a political position, where she pitted herself against a good-looking, charismatic heartthrob with a reputation to pine for. What was she thinking?

Well, run she did, and lose, she did. Badly beaten in the elections, despite having garnered massive press coverage. It is important to note that along the way, she necessarily became entangled against the existing political alliance between her opponent Pasig Mayor Sotto, and Pasig Congressman Roman Romulo.

Not content with squandering a fortune in a disastrous campaign, Sarah refused to leave the headlines. The rains came, floods rose, and suddenly, all those government contracts on flood control measures surfaced. Sarah, like other flotsam, came merrily rising.