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With that, former governor Casimiro “Ito” Ynares handed me a three-page document as I sat before him at his office in the Rizal Provincial Capitol. I had come to verify rumors going around in Antipolo City to the effect that somebody had signified, albeit to select confidants, a determined bid to contest the Ynares patriarch for the leadership of Rizal in the coming 2022 elections.