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True or False: Money Buys Elections
It is widely held belief that Senator Manny Villar’s heavy spending in political advertisements was the chief factor that helped him narrow the gap between himself and presidential race frontrunner Senator Benigno Aquino III in the latest SWS and Pulse Asia opinion poll surveys.
The common belief goes that you need money to buy ads. The [...]
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile Regarding Manny Villar Privilege Speech
The following is the statement as released by the Senate, of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile regarding the privilege speech that Senator Manny Villar gave on the C-5 Controversy.
SP: Mr. President, I stood up several times because I wanted to ask questions from the distinguished gentleman who delivered a privilege speech a while ago to find [...]
The Day The Senate Turned Into A Cockpit
Legislatures in democracies are nicknamed ‘August chambers’ harking back to olden times when nobles held court in palaces, exclusively holding the reins of governance while their subjects stood in awe at the wisdom and stately behavior of blue bloods.
Influenced as we are by such western constructs, Filipinos are used to having the Senate and the [...]
How The Wind Blows For Estrada And Villar
Former President Erap Estrads and Senator Manny Villar are a study in contrasts, and similarities.
They’re both running for President, rairing to take over from the hugely unpopular Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Both Villar and Estrada trail Sen. Noynoy Aquino in the surveys but are gaining on the only son of his revered parents Ninoy and Cory Aquino.
Estrada [...]
Should Manny Villar Drop Out of the Race?
Billionaire Senator and now Presidential aspirant, Manny Villar faces perhaps a tough test ahead on the road towards the presidential palace. The senator is facing censure from the Philippine Senate after he was found guilty for “improper and unethical conduct in connection with the C5 Road extension project.” This, the Philippine Daily Inquirer quoted from a [...]
Rebuttal to Villar’s PR
In an unsurprising attempt to discredit presidential front-runner Senator Noynoy Aquino, multi-billionaire and fellow Senator Manny Villar has released a press release saying “that there is no room for an on-the-job training” should Sen. Aquino win the popular vote.
The release proceeds to outline a doomsday scenario that will strike the Philippines on July 1, 2010, [...]
Love and Loss
Our generation has a challenge set before it. To say that our Republic today is ill is to state the obvious. To blame generations before is a mistake. We can no longer afford a Philippines so deeply divided. We can no longer allow our nation to be so much in quarrel over the past and [...]
The 2010 Presidential Derby Tightens Up
There’s now further defining statistical proof that the elections on May 10 has turned into a two-man race.
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