Now we know why Senator Manny Villar has been thumbing his arrogant nose at the sessions of the Senate Committee Of the Whole that has him on trial for allegedly pocketing hundreds of millions of pesos in windfall profits from the controversial realignment-plus-extension of the C-5 project.
Villar pulled out his trump card: his self-commissioned Social Weather Station survey that has him leading the field of presidential wannabees.
And his release of the opinion surveys comes right after the disclosure of the competing Puls Asia report that has Villar trailing Vice President Noli De Castro, Sen. Chiz Escudero, and former president Erap Estrada.
Apart from Villar being ahead of the pack in the SWS report, the other detail that stand out is how the tail-ender in this list is Sen. Mar Roxas who was the biggest gainer in the Pulse Asia poll and Sen. Panfilo Lacson who has exposed the C-5 budget double insertion is nowhere in the SWS top rankings.
With his commissioned opinion survey tucked under his belt, Villar’s probably just laughing at Sen. Jamby Madrigal’s estimate that he earned up to PhP 400-M from the C-5 road project that benefited 16 of his housing properties.
Between 400-M big ones the cost of his SWS survey amounts to chump change.
What’s more, the good Senator is bent on painting his accusers as “medieval era persecutors” with poor him as the victim, mega-rich victim that is.
Popularity: 1% [?]
One conclusion from the two surveys is that 2010-elections will be Villar-vs-deCastro battle. Mar Roxas and all the others might as well step aside (or scramble for the VP slot???)
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Pinas waits for more surveys, more scandals and a smattering of good news that will further shape 2010-elections.
Side-topic: Court of Appeals judge Remedios Salazar Fernando is among the six names that the Pinas Supreme Court has submitted to the JBC for consideration as supreme court justice. Justice Fernando was one of the 3 judges who overturned the Pozon conviction of Lance Corporal Smith.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20090602-208482/Supreme-Court-submits-6-names-to-JBC
ang lapit ng mga margins. this is very close…
The blog reads as negative endorsement of Villar.
In other words, here at FV, anyone can work things out in the reverse. What evil then does it carry to endorse whom another one thinks should be the president of 2010?
Prime, with all due respect, don’t use my post to defend your announced support for a candidate.
Do that on your own.
Similarly may I respectfully remind you that no one among the contributors can speak for the Collective.
Truly, no one should speak for the collective – but that is easier said than done (look at the others).
I have worn no masks and I will stand by my belief that if I endorse BF, I do so all of nine yards.
You see, I don’t have to use you post to openly offer to the public just why I choose BF that they may consider also making him the next president. In a future blog, I will have to state my case.
Ding, you know that whatever happens, my respect to you is never diminished.