Reverse speeds, non mount of money, that is, facts, not words. Action, not promises. In this direction, little imports if Geddel Vieira better express Rasp if that Jaques Wagner, and vice versa. It matters that, a time elect for the public administration, plays with efficiency its functions, in order to guarantee more quality of life for the Bahians. In other words, that work more and say little. Obviously that, if the politician obtains to unite the capacity to manage with the one to make a speech, it will be a public personality not only useful to its community as well as wanted by its people. At this moment Otvio Mangabeira comes me to the mind a crucial name of the bahian politics. (In Itanhm, where I passed my infancy and adolescence, a Square Otvio Mangabeira exists, that, for obvious reasons, already popularly was known as ae became the dhecida as Square of the Market and, now, Square of> in the actions and the words.
Nowadays, unhappyly, it more is remembered by its words, the provocative and relaxed way with that he defined the Bahia, of what for the actions that undertook in favor of its native land as councilman, member of the house of representatives, senator, governor or minister. It governed the Bahia of April of 1947 the January of 1951 after to have been exiled for the Getlio dictator Vargas, to who made systematic opposition, and its government is considered one of most progressive of the history of the Bahia. To have an idea, Mangabeira attracted biggest bahian intelligences to compose its secretaryship: Ansio Teixeira> even so, ironically, the Center of Memory of the Bahia have more than catalogued ten a thousand documents of the former-governor. Unhappyly, for an mistake (or it will be comodismo) of the new generations, the great Bahian finished reduced to the condition of philosopher of the baianidade Pense about a nonsense, in the Bahia has precedent ; or the Bahia so is delayed that, when the world if to finish, the bahian ones only go to know five years later . The heading of philosopher of the baianidade does not pass, therefore, of a trick of bad taste or, in the best one of the hypotheses, of a bem-humorada reference to the frasista inspired that also was Otvio Mangabeira, without detriment of the man who had as he marks the firmness of character, the clarity of thought and the inabalvel confidence in the democratic institutions. In time: Otvio Mangabeira is maternal grandfather of Mangabeira Unger, this, yes, a philosopher in the meaning of the word (leciona legal philosophy in Harvard) that .
