Wankette 11

The dancing girls was started in Ilocos by Luis Chavit Singson. He called them the "Chavit Girl's" and they were pre-nubile girls from Baguio City. There were some boys at first but as the days passed, they were left in the kangkongan. It was the Chavit Girls they wanted or maybe they were what the politicians wanted because I've been to provincial "Open Bikini Meets" and the loudest and yes, lustiest, cheers were for the guys in T-backs. No, the gays were quiet. It was the housewives and the young girls screaming. But in politics, men had to reassert their role, at least in Ilocos. The girls dance every after two speeches. This is to make the people stay. If the big fish (congressman or governor) have two or three places to go during a village or town rally, they would be the first to speak. And the girls stay. Or the big fish sometimes have two dancing troupes and one is made to stay while the other joins. In Agoo, the gubernatorial candidate has a troupe and the congressman has his own and the mayor has hers. So for the first part of the program, all three were there and in the end, there was only one as the congressman and governor left for other engagements. The dancing girls sometimes dominate the scene that the gubernatorial candidate spent the first part of his speech talking about them.