Rep.Crispin Beltran dies

**Monseratto** · May 20th, 2008 11:14 PM

WOW, masipag...

Beltran, 75, left a wife and 11 children.

There was a time that their home didn't even have any electricity

Power cutoff: Beltran curses not the darkness, but PPA

“In the meantime, it’s candles for us,” says Bayan Muna Rep. Crispin Beltran as the Meralco linemen tasked to cut off his power supply did just that.

Weeks after trying to do their job, Meralco linemen finally found the courage to cut off the power supply to the home of Beltran who is spearheading the campaign against the imposition of purchased power adjustment on all Meralco clients.

At 9:30 a.m. yesterday, four Meralco linemen arrived at Beltran’s house in Barangay Gao, Litex, Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City.

A few days earlier, a militant group had been conducting a daily vigil in front of Beltran’s home and this kept the Meralco linemen at bay.

Yesterday, those conducting the vigil were out and Beltran was left with no choice but to talk to the Meralco linemen who said they would not confiscate the electric meter but would just turn over on its dial.

Seeing that a crowd had already gathered and worrying that a scuffle might break out, he allowed the linemen to do what they were ordered to do by their superiors at the Meralco branch along Commonwealth Avenue.

Beltran, however, asked the linemen to allow him to first finish ironing his barong which he was to wear in yesterday’s afternoon sessions in Congress. The linemen obliged and after 10 minutes proceeded to turn over the electric meter.

Beltran’s unpaid electricity bill, plus PPA charges, has reached P14,602.26, since April.

In a statement, Beltran said: “It’s an outrage that Meralco is forcing millions of other customers to shoulder the PPA. Meralco is committing criminal acts a millions times over everyday by charging its customers with PPA, and then again the criminality of it is exacerbated when they cut off the electricity supply to Filipino households who refuse to pay this anomalous charge.”

Beltran said he is appealing to his colleagues in Congress to support the fight against the PPA and the unused power being charged to consumers by other independent power producers.

He said his household would be living in the dark for the next few days, but he will attempt to work it out with the Meralco Commonwealth Branch and have its linemen restore electricity to his house.

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/i...s02_oct23_2002

Sadly to this day we are still at the mercy of MERALCO...

**jpdm** · May 21st, 2008 07:00 AM

...Condolence to a brave warrior...one of the few true representatives of the ordinary pinoy masses.......

...can't even afford to have a handy man to repair his roof....

**oliver1013** · May 21st, 2008 08:04 AM

Hindi talaga nangurakot, siya pa mismo nag ayos ng sira ng bahay...condolence to the family..Totoo nga talaga yung kasabihan pag mabait kinukuha agad ni Lord..yung iba na stoke na tas na ICU pa, nabuhay pa to fight(steal) another day

**s_quilicot** · May 21st, 2008 09:01 AM

wala man lang nagmalasakit sa kanya nag mag ayos ng bubong? kawawa naman ..

**uls** · May 21st, 2008 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by jpdm

...Condolence to a brave warrior...one of the few true representatives of the ordinary pinoy masses.......

...can't even afford to have a handy man to repair his roof....

He probably didnt want to hire someone coz he fights for workers' rights diba?

Baka sabihin ng tao "Beltran mababa magsahod" "Beltran mapang api"

hehe

Pinanindigan nya ang pagka- pro-masa, pro-manggagawa nya...

Hindi sya magbabayad ng tao para gumawa ng trabaho kasi that would make him look --- what's the word --- bourgeoisie.

**badsekktor** · May 21st, 2008 10:08 AM

condolence......

**empy** · May 21st, 2008 10:17 AM

wow, this brings back memories of a good friend of mine, who died the exact same way, falling headfirst off the roof of his house. he also had many kids (4) and was very comfortable fixing stuff on the roof. the only difference was that my friend was in his mid-30s

:rip: to you both

**chua_riwap** · May 21st, 2008 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by uls

He probably didnt want to hire someone coz he fights for workers' rights diba?

Baka sabihin ng tao "Beltran mababa magsahod" "Beltran mapang api"

hehe

Pinanindigan nya ang pagka- pro-masa, pro-manggagawa nya...

Hindi sya magbabayad ng tao para gumawa ng trabaho kasi that would make him look --- what's the word --- bourgeoisie.

Pero at his age, dapat di na siya gumagawa ng mga bagay na yan, like fixing his roof.

Wala man lang tumulong? Asan yung 11 children nya? Nasa Mendiola, nagra-rally?

**Monseratto** · May 21st, 2008 08:55 PM

Wow, blame the goverment for everything. Pati pagkahulog ni Ka Crispin ay kasalanan ng US-Arroyo rehimen blah blah blah...We should be asking them knowing the fraility of his health and having 11 children, why send a 75 year old man to fix the roof? There's a word called common sense and another called stupidity. Wonder which applies here?

Oppression of Beltran led to poor health, death--KMU

‘Arroyo will pay’

MANILA, Philippines -- The leftist labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU, May 1st Movement) on Wednesday blamed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, saying the oppression by her administration led to the death of its former chairman, Anakpawis (Toiling Masses) Representative Crispin Beltran.

“She will pay for Ka [Kasama, comrade] Bel’s death,” KMU chairman Elmer Labog said.

Labog said Beltran’s more than year-long detention from 2006 to 2007 weakened the solon’s body and made possible the accident that killed him on Tuesday.

Beltran died Tuesday morning from head injuries he suffered after falling from the roof of his Bulacan home. He was 75.

“Peke at hindi sinsero ang pamahalaang Arroyo sa pakikiramay sa pagkamatay ni Ka Bel [The Arroyo administration is false and sincere in its condolences at Ka Bel’s death][,” Labog said.

In February 2006, when Arroyo declared a state of emergency because of a purported “Left-Right” conspiracy to oust her, Beltran was arrested on a more than 20-year old rebellion case.

In May that year, he was transferred to “hospital arrest” at the Philippine Heart Center (PHC), where he stayed until his release in July 2007.

“Arroyo should expect more protest actions and rallies from militant groups because she has to pay for what she did to Ka Bel,” Labog added. “The struggle continues.”

The KMU will welcome and pay tribute to Beltran’s remains late Wednesday afternoon at the Philippine Independent Church on Taft Avenue, Manila, where the late lawmaker will lie in state this week.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakin...lth-death--KMU