Okay, let’s try to take stock of the current sentiments, views, opinions, and analysis of the writers and readers here at FV. Come 2010, elections will once again be both local and national, not to mention the election of our next president.
I think a very big issue that muddles the analysis of this upcoming election of 2010 is that of the role of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo herself, if there will be a united opposition, what role issues will play, and if the electorate will have matured to a certain degree by that time.
Some key aspects that many consider will be the role of citizens in this upcoming elections. As of now, there are a great number of factors that are still uncertain, but with that in mind, what are your thoughts with regards to the upcoming elections, you can come at it from all angles, and tackle some or all of the parts of what will make up the 2010 elections.
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i think the admin will ultimately field in Kabayan as their official candidate, with BF and Teodoro probably sliding down to the senatorial/VP slots.
So that would be Noli vs Villar vs Roxas vs Villanueva.
Same o same o.
New faces Same Old Scripts.
Nothing New.
Elaborate, if it will be the same, what can citizens do?
i should have said “the people should be extra vigilant in guarding their votes”. until i thought of how the computerized elections can and will play a role.
we are on transition-an exciting time indeed.
Nothing can citizens do without the help of our pekeng-peryodistas. Professionalize our peryodistas makes our citizenry well-informed. Once we are well-informed, we form an intelligent opinion.
It’s not the citizens job. It’s the mediia’s job to enlighten and educate us.
Elaborate, if it will be the same, what can citizens do?
Nick:
Let’s look at some of the best practices out there:
* Citizen’s Handbook
* Project Vote Smart: The Voter’s Self Defense System
* Election Protection
*Winning Elections Through Local Organization
These sites have a wealth of activities that citizens can do.
MLQ3 talks of Pacquiao for public office, and
… the law of unintended consequences, which we should examine if we are to get a grip on the crisis of democratic representation we’ve been undergoing since Joseph Estrada’s election to the presidency in 1998.
There are other dynamics at work here, of course, and that includes alienation on the part of voters no longer impressed with, or downright hostile to, the credentials of those formerly deemed solely qualified for public office. “Where have all these bar topnotchers brought the country?” was the dismissive argument you heard going into 1998, from many quarters.
2010? As usual electyion then nothing happens after same o same o goot business for pekeng-peryodistas …. HA!HA!HA!HA!
Election-2010: I hope DJB, Felix Muga and others are sloughing off about the automation. Specific company-names are getting released:
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MANILA, Philippines—After Tuesday’s deliberations, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Special Bids and Awards Committee (SBAC) declared another bidder ineligible for the P11.2 billion automation contract.
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“SBAC ruled unanimously considering the bid documents required the submission of import and export license and the bidder [Sequoia and USSC] does not have an accreditation as an importer and no written explanation why there was no accreditation, we ruled that the bidder is ineligible,” said SBAC chairman Ferdinand Rafanan.
With the decision, only four bidders would be evaluated namely Smartmatic-Total Information Management Inc. group; Syrex Corp-Anishin Inc. Philippines; AMA Group of Companies-Election System and Software; and Gilat-FF Cruz and Co. Inc.
.. are not
sloughing offlosing interest …We dont play the guessing game. Whatever Gloria Arroyo will do. She
will do. We focus on the honesty of the coming election. We hope that
the fraud will be minimal.
agreed…. the honesty of the election process is more important than the honesty of the people who get into office .
No, honesty of the election and the honesty of the people
elected. We dont want fraudsters, scammers, conjugal plunderers, etc… to be in Malacanang again!
Hmmmm…. 2010-automation may be the perfect opportunity for civil society to hire a bunch of hackers to do dagdag-bawas for the honest candidates.
Hmmmm…. 2010-automation may be the perfect opportunity for civil society to hire a bunch of hackers to do dagdag-bawas for the honest candidates.
it might also be the perfect opportunity to have white-hat hackers protecting the system from black-hat hackers in order to have accurate, smooth and quick elections.
each candidate must put in writing, in simplest language, what he/she would do should he/she gets elected president, how he/she would do it, and a timetable within his/her tenure when it would be done. it could be in a form of a “contract with the filipinos” upon which his/her incumbency would be judged at its end. such a formal pledge must be given full free publicity during the campaign period in all branches of the media, and more importantly, in all the cause-oriented blogs and chat rooms of the world-wide web, where it can be scrutinized, analyzed, discussed, dissected and criticized.
candidates must win or lose primarily on the basis of their election pledges and program of government. personal attacks and mudslinging against political opponents must be absolutely discouraged and be considered a red flag against the muckraker by the electorate. instead, political campaigns, rallies, and miting de avances must be devoted to explaining a candidate’s proposals for governance.
in lieu of pictures and posters, campaign materials must consist solely of printed matter containing each candidate’s qualifications, experience and performance plan.
some of the above proposals may not be realistic and may even be constitutionally problematic. but we cannot underestimate the power of the people acting as one. if the people decide to ignore candidates who run for office the old-fashioned way, reject dirty tricks and character assassination, vote-buying, harassment and intimidation, who can question that?
Are you dreaming, Bencard? They lie thru their noses. Like all of us lie before human resources to catch a plum job.
We try to over-market ourselves even though we actually don’t know how to do the job …
as far as “over-market(ing)”, speak for yourself, girlie. they can lie at their own risk. with cynics like you, the country is doomed before it even start to reform itself.
No, politicians and our leaders lie between their teeth to get
elected. This is always the case…
so, be smart and learn not to vote for one you know is lying. when will the likes of you ever learn?
Malacanang will not field Noli de Castro since we know that the 4th Estate can be a double-edged sword. I believe, it will only field someone really more tamed, more patronizing, with deep history of involvement in everything ‘governmental’, in everything ‘transactional’ in our state of affairs.
Besides, Noli is not publicly perceived as a well-defined ‘organism’. It resembles every other kind of organisms. In short, in the animal kingdom, it is important to know which one is the lion to the tiger, et cetera. Make no mistake about it, no one even knows where Noli stands on emerging issues that have already confronted us as a nation, as a people.
I wish I did not lost that email earlier sent to me which was a litany of the complaints people had of the man – true or false.
Now, if we are rather agreed that the mad race for 2010 would have been conflined to a “Noli vs. Villar vs. Mar vs. Villanueva”, then we can come late in the voting booth, maybe not even have to come at all. It does not make sense to pick any from the pack – they are already ‘tested’ and ‘tried’ – and we all ended up not getting the bigger part of the bargain.
Villar had many years in Congress? In Senate? As House Speaker as Senate President? Did our collective life get any better? How many years did Noli put into his government employment card? Again, can you say – “lahat na tayo, nagkabahay na?”. And so on. Mar did pour in a whole length of time with Congress and what were those years when Speaker de Venecia was the ‘king’ in a make-believe world of greatness. Who were JDV’s boys or operatives? And Villanueva? Well, if he can swing those votes from one end to the other, he must summon a miracle.
All told, nothing from a pack of ‘wolves’ – just no one, I feel.
Just a point for my friend bencard. Please simply write the presidentiables a letter asking them to submit to you what you asked and post them all here as individual blogs and then we start the festival but never allow yourself to operate in the periphery when criticism start to flood. If you can do that, I can believe you.
Primer: it is not government’s job, but your neighbor’s job to earn the money so he can buy his house…. and your job to earn the money so you can buy your house.
It’s the government’s job to give us a job to buy a house. It’s the government’s job to level the playing field so we can get a job to buy a house.
“Malacanang will not field Noli de Castro since we know that the 4th Estate can be a double-edged sword…” — PRIMER
Please elaborate “double-edge sword”. I know the faults of 4th Estate, you may have something that I don’t know yet.
Just a point for my friend bencard. Please simply write the presidentiables a letter asking them to submit to you what you asked and post them all here as individual blogs and then we start the festival but never allow yourself to operate in the periphery when criticism start to flood. If you can do that, I can believe you.
Primer, go to this site – http://www.votesmart.org/index.htm – and drool or weep.
The Voter’s Self-Defense System
Every candidate and elected official from President to local government can be easily and instantly accessed through the:
• Vote Smart’s Website: http://www.vote-smart.org
or
Voter’s Research Hotline: 1-888-VOTE-SMART (1-888-868-3762)
Voting Records — Compare what your representatives said during the campaign with how they actually voted on the record.
Biographical & Contact Information — From their previous professions, education, families, organizational membership to their latest e-mail address, we gather it all.
Issue Positions (Political Courage Test) — We test thousands of candidates for President, Congress, Governor and State Legislature with our Political Courage Test. The test accurately measures a candidate’s willingness to provide voters with their positions on the issues they will most likely face if elected to represent you.
Interest Group Ratings — Over 150 competing special interest groups, from conservative to liberal, evaluate your representatives. Look at what they say.
Public Statements – The Project constantly collects speeches and public comments of the president, governors, and congressional representatives. Just type in a word, say; ‘immigration’ and all public utterances containing the word ‘immigration’ will appear. Compare what they said while campaigning in California a few years ago to what they are saying now in New Hampshire.
Campaign Finances — How much money did your representatives raise and from whom? Just follow the money and then follow the votes.
so what if you don’t believe. if i’m going to do it, it’s not for you to be impressed. the nerve!
primer:
if you think malacañang will not go for noli, who do you think will get the endorsement?
any hint?
Mike Arroyo, Sr….
Nick, i’ve blogged about it and i am commenting it here. Unless a trojan horse comes along that changes the dynamic, 2010 can be summed up (pardon my French) like this: “Same Shit, Different Day”.
In Flipland nothing change …. Oooops … there is change but for the worse … 2010 is same o same o nothing doing …
The first order for 2010 to change is change the pekeng-peryodistas … what these pekeng-peryodistas peddle are nothing but biases and dumbnesss
the challenge remains to picking the lesser evil.
All the choices are greater evils…
the peryodistas i know won;t go for mar since korina will become first lady. ei, more than 99% of the media can’t stand the anchorwoman’s arrogance
pekeng peryodistas don’t want change –
if positive change happens – they wouldn’t have sh*t to write about.
Pekeng peryodistas are just earning their living. Times are hard.
OFWs are laid off in bunches and are returning home.
UP n, I hate to think that at times, you just might be bluffing your way in. At least, at times, renato can understand things better than I thought you do. But it’s just that, one opinion, other opinion but at least try to defend it.
Bong, who should droll or weep? Thank you for supplying blogs with so much information but sometimes they should be ‘synthesized’ a bit.
Siyetehan, as to gma’s endorsement, as early or as late as now, it should have already been announced but its indicative secrecy only strengthens suspicion of an end-game scenario.
Lastly, one does not have to fall on a cliff head first or it’s a shame.
Everybody do their things…
Bong,Thank you for supplying blogs with so much information but sometimes they should be ’synthesized’ a bit.
Primer:
Better that way, nothing gets lost in translation.
droll or weep
did you see all the information compiled? can you see how many volunteers got their acts together? – ten thousand.
nakupo kung Pinoy yun – paiyakan pa. swerte na lang kung may makuha kang singkwenta.
Okay bong, I’ll pay it another visit then. Thanks
Bencard,
are you trying to say that we Filipinos MUST rely on instincts? Intelligent choices thrives from empirical studies, not from pure intuition.. Don’t kid when you claim that all of us must conduct a posteriori analysis of who must be voted and who must not be.. Face the fact that runners are over-marketing themselves well in fact, they are underrated TRAPOs.. No one can easily tell if what they utter are true and they would eventually work for it to materialize..