<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853770276100961116</id><updated>2024-09-05T14:41:10.485+08:00</updated><category term="election 2007"/><category term="senators"/><category term="pgma"/><category term="chiz escudero"/><category term="erap"/><category term="genuine opposition"/><category term="batangas"/><category term="first post"/><category term="kampi"/><category term="lakas-cmd"/><category term="manny pacquiao"/><category term="political killings"/><category term="trillanes"/><category term="welcome"/><title type='text'>Kevin Ray&#39;s Viewpoint</title><subtitle type='html'>Let&#39;s get political here guys. It&#39;s my own way of blogging.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default?alt=atom'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Kevin Ray N. Chua</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07750863253008213843</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf6xDtuwxhno6J-o4xRJX0OsuHyRrRM5oFtHzYKjcd-ZAw6x9c3loLeHaO9_CTSpVruXkR4Br5k10Xd1zrvgtaYF48xe3ATCBZXLTsHMbvU4N9_CZQlCCWQV-WTLeY_g/s220/kevin.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>13</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853770276100961116.post-3229102906496914794</id><published>2007-03-25T14:24:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-03-27T21:11:19.815+08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="election 2007"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="genuine opposition"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pgma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="senators"/><title type='text'>Genuine Opposition has now a blog!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5045754656386888402&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWiFC-Gf-kgOR3cPtugkGssKlFbCSvcyZeYsk4IE1ujkfneblxdDGmSEqEI9H7_dFttnzN6XTdVFGE4zjWMW7fYi-7yzOxQ50GIhWb9U7x5CdEl_gVUsFGGjmJcBuK0tWbveIYpsILnbs-/s320/GO.JPG&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;Finally, the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;Genuine Opposition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; has a blog! I have been longing for a site that would completely entail the informations about the agenda of the&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt; Genuine Opposition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The site was made last March 21, 2007. (&lt;em&gt;How I hope I could contribute in the site&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;By the way, here&#39;s the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;10 Point Program of the Genuine Opposition&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to dispell accusations from the &lt;span style=&quot;color:#000099;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Team Unity&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; headed by their &lt;strong&gt;President &quot;kuno&quot; Gloria Arroyo&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;10 Point Program of the Genuine Opposition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GO &lt;/strong&gt;will strive to create more opportunities for all Filipinos, especially those who have less, to achieve a higher quality of life in a society that is justly, peacefully and honestly governed.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GO &lt;/strong&gt;adheres to the principles of transparency, accountability and good governance and will endeavor to eliminate lying, cheating and stealing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GO&lt;/strong&gt; assures to protect the sanctity of the Constitution by opposing any attempt by the Arroyo regime to amend the Constitution by any mode as recent attempt have exposed the desires of said regime to tamper with the Constitution solely for the purpose of remaining in power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GO &lt;/strong&gt;reinforces the Constitutional provisions of checks and balances in government and pledges that the Senate shall continue to be the people’s vanguard against abuses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GO&lt;/strong&gt; will sponsor and/or support legislative initiatives that would:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; Generate more jobs through labor intensive infrastructure projects in the rural areas rather than mega projects which are prone to large scale corruption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; Train our youth in higher skilled disciplines through increased budgetary allocations for our educational system at all levels including teacher’s pay, books, classrooms, computers, distance learning and school feeding programs except anomalous rice subsidies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; Substantially lower the cost of drugs by as much as 90% by providing incentives for domestic production of drugs, adoption of procurement reforms in the health sector and parallel importation of affordable medicines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.&lt;/strong&gt; Lower the costs of transportation and power through the aggressive development of renewable domestic sources of energy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.&lt;/strong&gt; Reject any new tax such as the proposed tax on text messaging, improve tax administration and exclusively utilize the additional revenues collected from EVAT for priority areas like education, healthcare, agriculture and science and technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6.&lt;/strong&gt; Strengthen the protection of human rights by granting prosecutorial powers to the Commission on Human Rights and upgrading its investigative capabilities and review the government’s counter-insurgency program to de-emphasize the heavily militarist approach and once again address the deeper causes of social conflict – poverty and injustice – through development programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7.&lt;/strong&gt; Contribute to the arrest of global warming and ensure a cleaner and better environment for future generations through programs that would accelerate the use of cleaner fuels, reforestation, lower electricity consumption and waste recycling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8.&lt;/strong&gt; Organize additional support programs for OFWs that will provide them with legal assistance abroad in their countries of work, retraining services, entrepreneurial mentoring and welfare and counseling services to the families they leave behind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9.&lt;/strong&gt; Reinforce the effectiveness of the press in its role as watchdog against graft and corruption by decriminalizing libel and increasing penalties for harm done to newspersons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10.&lt;/strong&gt; Institute other meaningful reforms to make the economy more dynamic, efficient and equitable and make the Filipino workers and enterprises more globally competitive. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/3229102906496914794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3853770276100961116/3229102906496914794' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/3229102906496914794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/3229102906496914794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/03/genuine-opposition-has-now-blog.html' title='Genuine Opposition has now a blog!'/><author><name>Kevin Ray N. Chua</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07750863253008213843</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf6xDtuwxhno6J-o4xRJX0OsuHyRrRM5oFtHzYKjcd-ZAw6x9c3loLeHaO9_CTSpVruXkR4Br5k10Xd1zrvgtaYF48xe3ATCBZXLTsHMbvU4N9_CZQlCCWQV-WTLeY_g/s220/kevin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWiFC-Gf-kgOR3cPtugkGssKlFbCSvcyZeYsk4IE1ujkfneblxdDGmSEqEI9H7_dFttnzN6XTdVFGE4zjWMW7fYi-7yzOxQ50GIhWb9U7x5CdEl_gVUsFGGjmJcBuK0tWbveIYpsILnbs-/s72-c/GO.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853770276100961116.post-2929799818589277347</id><published>2007-03-15T16:44:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-03-18T01:22:12.270+08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="election 2007"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pgma"/><title type='text'>Vote Kabataan for Partylist!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand&quot; height=&quot;176&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.kabataanparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/iboto2_2.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;The time has come for the youth to be represented. Finally, Kabataan Party has come for us to let the House of Representatives hear the sentiments of the youth with regards on the issues of the country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;I am encouraging all the first-time voters and the voting public, as a whole, to let the youth&#39;s voice be heard. We want to the youth to help shape their future. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;With your vote, you can help stop the abuses of the government that makes the youth&#39;s future more close to danger. Vote KABATAAN for partylist this May 2007 elections!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/2929799818589277347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3853770276100961116/2929799818589277347' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/2929799818589277347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/2929799818589277347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/03/vote-kabataan-for-partylist.html' title='Vote Kabataan for Partylist!'/><author><name>Kevin Ray N. Chua</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07750863253008213843</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf6xDtuwxhno6J-o4xRJX0OsuHyRrRM5oFtHzYKjcd-ZAw6x9c3loLeHaO9_CTSpVruXkR4Br5k10Xd1zrvgtaYF48xe3ATCBZXLTsHMbvU4N9_CZQlCCWQV-WTLeY_g/s220/kevin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853770276100961116.post-3082669494314003211</id><published>2007-03-12T17:00:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-03-12T17:51:59.248+08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="batangas"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="election 2007"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="genuine opposition"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kampi"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="lakas-cmd"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pgma"/><title type='text'>Vilma&#39;s running for Batangas governor</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 125px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 157px&quot; height=&quot;260&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.vilmasantos.net/assets/images/thumb_vilma_womens_96.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s final, Lipa City Mayor &lt;strong&gt;Vilma Santos&lt;/strong&gt; is running for Batangas Governor, under the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#009900;&quot;&gt;Lakas-CMD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, against incumbent Gov. &lt;strong&gt;Armand Sanchez&lt;/strong&gt;, who is running under the&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#cc0000;&quot;&gt; KAMPI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and Vilma&#39;s brother-in-law Vice Gov. &lt;strong&gt;Ricky Recto&lt;/strong&gt;, who is running under the &lt;span style=&quot;color:#000099;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genuine Opposition&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She made the announcement in an event together with her husband, Sen. &lt;strong&gt;Ralph Recto&lt;/strong&gt; (also called as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mr. E-VAT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) and Sen. &lt;strong&gt;Joker Arroyo&lt;/strong&gt;. The event was also attended by Vice President &lt;strong&gt;Noli de Castro&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Edwin Ermita&lt;/strong&gt;, the son of Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita. Edwin is the one being groomed as Vilma&#39;s runningmate in the upcoming elections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vilma is on her third and last term as Lipa City Mayor. As what her constituents can say, she has made Lipa City from a barren place into a star-studded city. Star-studded in a sense of development in infrastructure, social services, social welfare and health.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;As far as I am concerned, she is really qualified for the post. But the problem is that the politics in Batangas. There&#39;s her brother-in-law Vice Gov. Ricky Recto who is also aspiring for the gubernatorial post against incumbent Gov. Armand Sanchez whom he wanted to be out of office because of Sanchez&#39;s anomalous computerization program. While Ricky Recto&#39;s exposé is very convincing to the Batangueños and to other people, his brother Sen. Ralph Recto insist that he&#39;s not a popular guy in the province thus he deserves to be deprived from the gubernatorial post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;Sanchez&#39;s dismissal as governor of Batangas, as ordered by the&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#339999;&quot;&gt; Department of Interior and Local Government&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (DILG), was regarded as unacceptable to many Batangueños that&#39;s why he received a lot of sympathies and remained in the post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;With Vilma&#39;s entry in the gubernatorial race, it would be very complicated for the people to choose on whose to be their governor. Some Sanchez&#39; and Recto&#39;s supporters may change their allegiance to their leader and instead support Vilma.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;Their would be also a big problem in the clashes of&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#009900;&quot;&gt; Lakas-CMD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#cc0000;&quot;&gt;KAMPI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, who are both in coalition supporting President Gloria Arroyo and it&#39;s not only happening in Batangas alone. If Vilma would run under &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#009900;&quot;&gt;Lakas-CMD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and Armand Sanchez under &lt;span style=&quot;color:#cc0000;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KAMPI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, the province will be automatically under a &quot;free zone&quot; wherein the ruling coalition would not make an endorsement of their official candidate because both parties are in alliance. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;So, it&#39;s up for the Batangueños on who would they vote. Vilma&#39;s track record is her basis on running as governor but you could not also deny the track record of Armand Sanchez and Ricky Recto. Thus, it may be a toss-up on who&#39;s to win as Batangas Governor this election. Vote wisely!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/3082669494314003211/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3853770276100961116/3082669494314003211' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/3082669494314003211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/3082669494314003211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/03/vilmas-running-for-batangas-governor.html' title='Vilma&#39;s running for Batangas governor'/><author><name>Kevin Ray N. Chua</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07750863253008213843</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf6xDtuwxhno6J-o4xRJX0OsuHyRrRM5oFtHzYKjcd-ZAw6x9c3loLeHaO9_CTSpVruXkR4Br5k10Xd1zrvgtaYF48xe3ATCBZXLTsHMbvU4N9_CZQlCCWQV-WTLeY_g/s220/kevin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853770276100961116.post-9104945838504838273</id><published>2007-03-10T15:10:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-03-10T15:27:24.236+08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="chiz escudero"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="election 2007"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pgma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="senators"/><title type='text'>GO bets lead SWS and SSS polls</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s very clear that the people are tired of candidates who really don&#39;t deserve to have a seat in the Senate. These candidates I am referring to are mostly in the Team Unity (TU). Most of TU&#39;s bets are lagging behind the Genuine Opposition&#39;s (GO) candidates and even Independents! What&#39;s the real score behind it? Well, most of TU&#39;s bets are not united at all. They have different views on issues thus the name TEAM UNITY doesn&#39;t make it deserving to call for themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 241px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 71px&quot; height=&quot;85&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.sws.org.ph/banner.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;In the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) Survey that was conducted last February 24-27, 2007, from 1,200 adults divided into random samples of 300 each in Metro Manila, the balance of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao (sampling error margins of ±3% for national percentages), the result was in favor of GO bets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The survey topnotcher was not from GO, not from TU but an Independent (though he&#39;s anti-administration): Francis Pangilinan (Liberal Party-Drilon Wing) with 56%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trailing behind him are Loren Legarda (Nationalist People&#39;s Coalition-GO) with 54% followed by Manuel Villar Jr. (Nacionalista Party-GO) with 52%, Alan Peter Cayetano (Nacionalista Party-GO), Panfilo Lacson (United Opposition-GO) with 43%, and Francis Escudero (Nationalist People&#39;s Party-GO), 37%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ralph Recto (Lakas-CMD-TU) got a percentage of 37% while his fellow team mate Vicente Sotto III (Nationalist People&#39;s Party-TU) got 31%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Completing the last 4 seats are John Osmeña (United Opposition-GO) and Benigno Aquino III (Liberal Party-Drilon Wing-GO), 30%; Gregorio Honasan (Independent) gaining 29% and lastly the People&#39;s Dragon, Joker Arroyo (Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino-TU) with 28%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, the government agency Social Security System (SSS) also held their own mock polls where unknowingly, GO bets led the said polls. It was ironic that the agency under the Arroyo administration is favoring its rival&#39;s bets that theirs. It just shows the dissatisfaction of government employees to Gloria Arroyo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The result was 9 GO, 2 Independents and 1 TU. It was casted by 4,800 employees from 118 SSS branch offices participated in the mock polls that started last March 6. Here&#39;s the result:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://as.wn.com/i/15/70944b527e8765.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;The mock poll topnotcher was Francis &quot;Chiz&quot; Escudero with 3,862 votes; followed by Benigno &quot;Noynoy&quot; Aquino III with 3,149 votes and on third place was Alan Peter Cayetano with 3,100 votes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Landing in fourth, fifth and sixth places were Loren Legarda (2,985), Manuel Villar (2,872) and Panfilo &quot;Ping&quot; Lacson (2,855).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wrapping up the Magic 12 were Arroyo (2,555), Francis &quot;Kiko&quot; Pangilinan (2,361), Antonio Trillanes (2,147), Sonia Roco (2,011), Aquilino &quot;Koko&quot; Pimentel III (1,095) and Gregorio &quot;Gringo&quot; Honasan (1,679).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s now clear on who&#39;s winning the soon-to-be-vacated 12 Senate seats. It will be an opposition-dominated Senate. The TU bets will make it hard to have a 12-0 in favor of them because they&#39;re dimwits. They&#39;re running for the public office that they want to abolish. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/9104945838504838273/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3853770276100961116/9104945838504838273' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/9104945838504838273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/9104945838504838273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/03/go-bets-lead-sws-and-sss-polls.html' title='GO bets lead SWS and SSS polls'/><author><name>Kevin Ray N. Chua</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07750863253008213843</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf6xDtuwxhno6J-o4xRJX0OsuHyRrRM5oFtHzYKjcd-ZAw6x9c3loLeHaO9_CTSpVruXkR4Br5k10Xd1zrvgtaYF48xe3ATCBZXLTsHMbvU4N9_CZQlCCWQV-WTLeY_g/s220/kevin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853770276100961116.post-7008597895935654550</id><published>2007-02-27T16:04:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-03-08T14:28:43.993+08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="election 2007"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="political killings"/><title type='text'>Alstonishing Report</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039436554917344722&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1J7LOE8m4zsV8c-LGhfI0r5pWrDp-22XdiKJKFAeJpOl3oHHEAt_Ne5qGq9RwDo5cs-uXYSncLdM-iZrAcZQn3A2ueyn20kEUCi93-muZo7v0unKblvXIRGFvo1a17CE3uuW4Vs7x-BzC/s320/alston.JPG&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;The report of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Philip Alston&lt;/strong&gt; is very &quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff6600;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;alstonishing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&quot;! It has closely matched the government-sponsored &lt;strong&gt;Melo Report &lt;/strong&gt;headed by the former Supreme Court Justice &lt;strong&gt;Jose Melo&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, the alleged killings of several leftists and mediamen have been enlightened. Though, it&#39;s not a very comprehensive report, it has already gave an account on the military&#39;s role in perpetrating these killings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After he ended his 10-day visit in the Philippines, he made a controversial report that made the faces of those in Malacañang and in the Armed Forces awful. He said to the media that the military was in a denial of these killings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;Armed Forces Chief Hermogenes Esperon said that Alston was in denial, though he was not. His report is based on the facts that he gathered from several persons allegedly involved and affected by the extrajudicial killings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;There&#39;s a possibility that the military is behind the killings of several leftists and mediamen because somebody ordered it. Whether it&#39;s a high-ranking official from the National Executive, Legislative, Judiciary and even in the local governments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s no secret anymore. Our country is the 2nd most dangerous place after Iraq. Iraq&#39;s reputation of being the most dangerous place is very well justified because of the ongoing war of U.S. President George Bush. But, c&#39;mon. Philippines is not under a state of war! The government insists that we are on war against poverty, criminality, terrorism, etc. and not against our own deserving compatriots.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;The Alston report is done. It will be delivered to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Thus, the UN will finally make a stand on whether to scold its non-abiding member or not. But of course, we don&#39;t want to be scolded by the UN, neither do I! We should solve these killings immediately so that we would not reach that point.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;Mrs. Arroyo is not doing enough. Whether she&#39;s involve with these political killings or not, she should do something NOW! If she can&#39;t sincerely do it, the people would be curious. Let&#39;s see if she&#39;s really sincere in solving this crisis in her administration.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;Another thing, this issue can also be a good point of argument for the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;Genuine Opposition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (GO). The irresponsibility and insincerity of the Arroyo administration is evident in solving these political killings. It has been a long time that we are hounding this to our leaders and they&#39;re are only doing a magnified big (because it&#39;s small) action now because the world is watching them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;To the military and Mrs. Arroyo, my message to you: The world is watching on how you solve these political killings, and we are waiting. Abide by the findings of the &lt;strong&gt;Alston &lt;/strong&gt;and &lt;strong&gt;Melo Report&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;To those who want to read the entire text of the two reports, just visit this &lt;a href=&quot;http://politics.alleba.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/Meloreport.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF link&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;strong&gt;Melo Report&lt;/strong&gt; and this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.extrajudicialexecutions.org/news/Philippines_21_Feb_2007.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF link&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/7B6094F7150CDC99C125728A003B12B1?opendocument&quot;&gt;HTML link&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;strong&gt;Alston Report&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/7008597895935654550/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3853770276100961116/7008597895935654550' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/7008597895935654550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/7008597895935654550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/02/alstonishing-report.html' title='Alstonishing Report'/><author><name>Kevin Ray N. Chua</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07750863253008213843</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf6xDtuwxhno6J-o4xRJX0OsuHyRrRM5oFtHzYKjcd-ZAw6x9c3loLeHaO9_CTSpVruXkR4Br5k10Xd1zrvgtaYF48xe3ATCBZXLTsHMbvU4N9_CZQlCCWQV-WTLeY_g/s220/kevin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1J7LOE8m4zsV8c-LGhfI0r5pWrDp-22XdiKJKFAeJpOl3oHHEAt_Ne5qGq9RwDo5cs-uXYSncLdM-iZrAcZQn3A2ueyn20kEUCi93-muZo7v0unKblvXIRGFvo1a17CE3uuW4Vs7x-BzC/s72-c/alston.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853770276100961116.post-6967872373972275592</id><published>2007-02-25T14:02:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T15:08:18.802+08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="election 2007"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="erap"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="senators"/><title type='text'>Let&#39;s GO! Genuine Opposition</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5035349566323592610&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoHuwNfSm3Uc2roMQrLESor1it28iaOqFRy9cz6x8tatardp3T5tYx5uTswDyQTzSLvFhgqunwvqwxlhyphenhyphenpvRMSxwAddYrusZYqWAYut6Gd0w7pXwVTCWy5OnOjdGhIKFa8GBIMD1DZ0ne_/s320/GO.JPG&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt; After the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#3333ff;&quot;&gt;Team Unity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the election-cheater president was proclaimed in the Cebu City Coliseum, the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;Genuine Opposition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (GO) also made their proclamation rally in the historic Plaza Miranda last February 24.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;Of the 12 senatorial candidates of the GO, only 10 attended the event making it a &quot;&lt;em&gt;bungi&lt;/em&gt;&quot; ( a Filipino term for a &quot;&lt;em&gt;missing tooth&lt;/em&gt;&quot;) rally. It was already made known that &lt;strong&gt;Antonio Trillanes IV&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Francis Pangilinan&lt;/strong&gt; were not to attend the said event.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;Trillanes has a more convincing excuse for not attending the said event because he was in detention by the Philippine Armed Forces. In his lieu, he sent his representative, in the person of &lt;strong&gt;Sonny Rivera&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;Meanwhile, Pangilinan, who has declared himself as an independent candidate, refused to attend the proclamation rally because of a certain thing. He doesn&#39;t want to be viewed as an Erap supporter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;Pangilinan is an adopted candidate of GO. When he was made known that he was adopted by GO, he said &quot;Thank you!&quot;. With that gesture, he was willing to accept the offer. So? Why would he distance himself from the opposition? His track record in the Senate is undeniably among the best. But, if his opposition stance remain in question, he is in risk of replacement (maybe, if he keeps on doing that!) by either &lt;strong&gt;Gringo Honasan&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Zosimo Paredes&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Richard Gomez&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;Well, c&#39;mon! This election is not about a proxy fight between &lt;strong&gt;Erap &lt;/strong&gt;and &lt;strong&gt;PGMA.&lt;/strong&gt; It&#39;s about choosing candidates who want to abolish the Senate (ironically, TEAM Unity&#39;s Senate candidates are running for the office that they want to abolish) and those who want to protect the Senate from the hands of &lt;strong&gt;PGMA&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;In my 2007 senatorial preferences, I chose mostly from the&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#3333ff;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;Genuine Opposition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; than in &lt;span style=&quot;color:#3333ff;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Team Unity &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#000000;&quot;&gt;as what my post entitled &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/02/2007-senatoriables-who-should-win_11.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;2007 Senatoriables: Who should win&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; said&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#000000;&quot;&gt;. The 2 GO senatoriables that I didn&#39;t like to win in the election are &lt;strong&gt;Nikki Coseteng&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;John Osmeña&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nikki Coseteng&lt;/strong&gt; is a good politician as far as my knowledge is concerned. She is an anti-graft and corruption, women&#39;s rights and environmental protection advocate. She also gives importance to arts as her special passion. But, her winnability is at stake in this election. Honestly, she&#39;s not too appealing to the people anymore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;Lastly, &lt;strong&gt;John Osmeña &lt;/strong&gt;was used to be a Cebuano pride of the Senate. He has a magic within that made him one of the longest serving senator in the Senate&#39;s history. But aftr 2004, his magic fade out. He&#39;s too old, and I&#39;ll tell you my fellow citizens, he&#39;s ironically an anti-Cebuano. Why? He supports the move to break Cebu into 3 provinces namely Cebu del Norte, Cebu del Sur and Cebu Occidental together with the Cebu province proper.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;As I am predicting, it would be a 10-2 victory, in favor of the &lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff0000;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genuine Opposition&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#000000;&quot;&gt;. The people are tired of PGMA&#39;s lying, election-cheating and corruption.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/6967872373972275592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3853770276100961116/6967872373972275592' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/6967872373972275592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/6967872373972275592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/02/lets-go-genuine-opposition.html' title='Let&#39;s GO! Genuine Opposition'/><author><name>Kevin Ray N. Chua</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07750863253008213843</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf6xDtuwxhno6J-o4xRJX0OsuHyRrRM5oFtHzYKjcd-ZAw6x9c3loLeHaO9_CTSpVruXkR4Br5k10Xd1zrvgtaYF48xe3ATCBZXLTsHMbvU4N9_CZQlCCWQV-WTLeY_g/s220/kevin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoHuwNfSm3Uc2roMQrLESor1it28iaOqFRy9cz6x8tatardp3T5tYx5uTswDyQTzSLvFhgqunwvqwxlhyphenhyphenpvRMSxwAddYrusZYqWAYut6Gd0w7pXwVTCWy5OnOjdGhIKFa8GBIMD1DZ0ne_/s72-c/GO.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853770276100961116.post-4320419966310586332</id><published>2007-02-19T17:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-02-19T17:52:59.919+08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="election 2007"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="erap"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pgma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="senators"/><title type='text'>Erap or Gloria&#39;s Endorsement?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5033173886215294338&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr2HOyPBiIA6290IUUDgPSOsSrFrdX-LgQIESQye8z15fMNvsn8mOmlgnhkLjYxR4iykPu7F5fAcTCIIYTZEHmTBVNk83ipAZ4R4oRdpMIEzSI1qsYRySxZ4oJe98n8u-5g3gd20Ul_Yvi/s400/GOTU.JPG&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;We&#39;ve seen their respective senatorial line-ups, and we had heard a few of their platforms. Now, they&#39;re scrambling to get the endorsement of their &quot;&lt;em&gt;supremos&lt;/em&gt;&quot; namely &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#000099;&quot;&gt;Joseph &quot;Erap&quot; Estrada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;span style=&quot;color:#cc0000;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, for the &lt;u&gt;Genuine Opposition&lt;/u&gt; (GO) and &lt;u&gt;Team Unity&lt;/u&gt;, respectively.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Team Unity&lt;/strong&gt; recently made their proclamation rally here in Cebu and showed up their strong &quot;&lt;em&gt;kuno&lt;/em&gt;&quot; ticket that would surely beat the opposition&#39;s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Huh? Are you joking? Having an endorsement from &lt;strong&gt;PGMA&lt;/strong&gt; would be a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;kiss of death&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;! Just look at the Philippines under her watch. Increased killings of leftists and of media practitioners, widespread corruption, toleration of election cheating and vote rigging, an many to mention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, I was one of the supporters of &lt;strong&gt;Erap&lt;/strong&gt;&#39;s ouster in January 2001. Though, as the years past, I have seen this person as a symbol of oppression and abuse of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#cc0000;&quot;&gt;Arroyo regime&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. I really admire &lt;strong&gt;Erap&lt;/strong&gt;&#39;s deed of forgiveness to his mortal enemies in politics. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I am chosen to have an endorsement between &lt;strong&gt;Erap&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;PGMA&lt;/strong&gt;, I would rather chose &lt;strong&gt;Erap&lt;/strong&gt;! &lt;strong&gt;PGMA&lt;/strong&gt;&#39;s record for the past 6 years has been the worst that any Philippine President. &lt;strong&gt;Erap &lt;/strong&gt;may have served for only a few years because of his immorality. I admit that. But time has changed,and he also has changed. Now, he&#39;s the real symbol of the &quot;&lt;em&gt;masa&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and &lt;strong&gt;PGMA&lt;/strong&gt; of the &quot;&lt;em&gt;elite&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, how about you? Given a chance to be endorsed by &lt;strong&gt;Erap&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;PGMA&lt;/strong&gt;, whose hand would you like to be raised? I&#39;ve given my side, now it&#39;s your turn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genuine Opposition&lt;/strong&gt;, Go! Go! Go!&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/4320419966310586332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3853770276100961116/4320419966310586332' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/4320419966310586332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/4320419966310586332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/02/erap-or-glorias-endorsement.html' title='Erap or Gloria&#39;s Endorsement?'/><author><name>Kevin Ray N. Chua</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07750863253008213843</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf6xDtuwxhno6J-o4xRJX0OsuHyRrRM5oFtHzYKjcd-ZAw6x9c3loLeHaO9_CTSpVruXkR4Br5k10Xd1zrvgtaYF48xe3ATCBZXLTsHMbvU4N9_CZQlCCWQV-WTLeY_g/s220/kevin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr2HOyPBiIA6290IUUDgPSOsSrFrdX-LgQIESQye8z15fMNvsn8mOmlgnhkLjYxR4iykPu7F5fAcTCIIYTZEHmTBVNk83ipAZ4R4oRdpMIEzSI1qsYRySxZ4oJe98n8u-5g3gd20Ul_Yvi/s72-c/GOTU.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853770276100961116.post-5246856227459278220</id><published>2007-02-17T11:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T14:01:36.357+08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="election 2007"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="senators"/><title type='text'>Petilla out, Montano in!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.lpp.gov.ph/images-may06news/Governor%20Petilla2%20copy.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s final. Leyte Governor &lt;strong&gt;Jericho &quot;Icot&quot; Petilla&lt;/strong&gt; is out of the Senate Race for the Team Unity of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for the reason that her mother, Leyte 1st District Rep. &lt;strong&gt;Remedios &quot;Matin&quot; Petilla&lt;/strong&gt; decided not to run for governor of Leyte and instead wants him to run again for another term. This is a great development for me because today, the Team Unity will be in Cebu to formally proclaim their complete senatorial line-up in the Cebu Coliseum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what about his substitute? Don&#39;t worry, after a 5-hour talk with President Arroyo in Malacañang, they had finally decided to appoint one. It&#39;s &lt;strong&gt;Cesar Montano&lt;/strong&gt;, the long-rumored bet of the Arroyo bloc since last year. It was really a surprise for us that Montano will be the replacement of Petilla. Nobody knew that it would happen. After the Team Unity completed its senatorial slate, there was no more rumors that Montano would be running for the Senate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C&#39;mon! Miracles do happen on election period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Petilla insisted that he would still run even if he&#39;s not popular to the people. He has the platform of local government empowerment and autonomy just like senatoriables Zambales Gov. &lt;strong&gt;Vicente Magsaysay&lt;/strong&gt; and Ilocos Sur Gov. &lt;strong&gt;Luis &quot;Chavit&quot; Singson&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 272px; CURSOR: hand&quot; height=&quot;183&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.kodak.com/global/images/en/motion/16mm/why/palacio1.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;Petilla and presidential political adviser &lt;strong&gt;Gabriel Claudio&lt;/strong&gt; together with Montano, arrived in the main office of the Commission on Elections in Intramuros, Manila around 7 p.m yesterday to formalize the substitution of candidates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Montano, whose real name is Cesar Manhilot, is one of the popular actors in the Philippine movie industry. Just to name a few of his blockbuster hits, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Jose Rizal&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Panaghoy sa Suba&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Muro Ami&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Bagong Buwan&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;em&gt;The Great Raid&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and others that I hard to remember.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But if he really succeeds, and gets elected to the Senate, I hope he will be a true servant and not only on his campaign. I am really disappointed with his decision, but who are we to stop him from his decision. We are not his mind. It was Arroyo&#39;s pups who made him run even though he insisted before that he wouldn&#39;t.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/5246856227459278220/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3853770276100961116/5246856227459278220' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/5246856227459278220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/5246856227459278220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/02/petilla-out-montano-in.html' title='Petilla out, Montano in!'/><author><name>Kevin Ray N. Chua</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07750863253008213843</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf6xDtuwxhno6J-o4xRJX0OsuHyRrRM5oFtHzYKjcd-ZAw6x9c3loLeHaO9_CTSpVruXkR4Br5k10Xd1zrvgtaYF48xe3ATCBZXLTsHMbvU4N9_CZQlCCWQV-WTLeY_g/s220/kevin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853770276100961116.post-2038434614386878831</id><published>2007-02-16T16:03:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-02-16T17:04:41.655+08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="election 2007"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="manny pacquiao"/><title type='text'>Pacman&#39;s run for Congress?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032046667753491810&quot; style=&quot;FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQMmBR1CbkNFQwgFMeQQfUqHkx5bcN3itZhjBtjZCrlZmoGo2IP1Ae_wqeqpFdL1MZTlNMJAoBbscDE0q8zFdIWavLTCwmzBoKJPxW6xNekZlJbOe2hzMk0wnReUBuqt53uE6zmWvdBJXp/s320/SP.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#cc0000;&quot;&gt;Manny &quot;Pacman&quot; Pacquiao&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; will be running for Congress, and he&#39;s ready for it. But it seems that a lot of people around the country and in his district disagree with his initiative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This boxing superstar has a lot to offer for the country and yet his joining the confusing world of politics. He&#39;s no Superman to others. He may be when he wins against his boxing opponents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He can unite the people through his fight. But, having this ability doesn&#39;t mean that he&#39;s ready for the position he&#39;s gunning to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not saying that he&#39;s really not worthy for the position. Anyone can run for the said public office. It&#39;s our right by the way with the compliance of pertinent qualifications. But he has a job to do. Boxing is his passion and not politics. He would just be listening to his &quot;&lt;em&gt;alipores&lt;/em&gt;&quot; whose only aim is to function him as a robot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His promises are non-sense. Giving healthcare, education, etc. to his constituents. Enough of that. I&#39;ve heard that for several times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And what if he would be a congressman? Debates in the House of Representatives will like be a &lt;strong&gt;Mano-a-Mano Opposition vs. Pacquiao&lt;/strong&gt;? When someone disagrees with him on issues, he might give a little bit of South Pow and a little bit of Right Hook punch. Automatically, the fight between the erring congressmen and Pacman will be a &lt;strong&gt;Technical Knock-out&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://cbox.ws/smilies/1/tongue.gif&quot; /&gt;! Will the Filipino people rejoice with him? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So Manny, my unsolicited advice to you is to stay away from politics. Remember, politics is dirty. It might be the realm of your weakness and it may even destroy your career as a boxer more popular than Jesus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/2038434614386878831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3853770276100961116/2038434614386878831' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/2038434614386878831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/2038434614386878831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/02/pacmans-run-for-congress.html' title='Pacman&#39;s run for Congress?'/><author><name>Kevin Ray N. Chua</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07750863253008213843</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf6xDtuwxhno6J-o4xRJX0OsuHyRrRM5oFtHzYKjcd-ZAw6x9c3loLeHaO9_CTSpVruXkR4Br5k10Xd1zrvgtaYF48xe3ATCBZXLTsHMbvU4N9_CZQlCCWQV-WTLeY_g/s220/kevin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQMmBR1CbkNFQwgFMeQQfUqHkx5bcN3itZhjBtjZCrlZmoGo2IP1Ae_wqeqpFdL1MZTlNMJAoBbscDE0q8zFdIWavLTCwmzBoKJPxW6xNekZlJbOe2hzMk0wnReUBuqt53uE6zmWvdBJXp/s72-c/SP.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853770276100961116.post-1687729235315311239</id><published>2007-02-15T17:11:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T14:00:43.520+08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="election 2007"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="senators"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="trillanes"/><title type='text'>The Antonio Trillanes IV Campaign</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/2744/792314095541212/660/z/335106/gse_multipart14521.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;Another person whom I admire in this 2007 elections is Antonio Trillanes IV, the leader of the group who staged the Oakwood Mutiny last July 27, 2003. It&#39;s his crusade and principles whom I really admire. But most people view him as a son of a crap kid who&#39;s only job is to create paranoia in the ailing country of Philippines.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;What he had done in Oakwood may not be right, but his exposé about the corruption in the military really triggers us to be vigilant with the Armed Forces. The corruption in the institution, as what he said, is already starting to deteriorate itself. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;Visit his blog at &lt;a href=&quot;http://magdaloparasapagbabago.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;http://magdaloparasapagbabago.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;He has already made his legislative agenda and it can be seen in &lt;a href=&quot;http://trillanesproposedlegislativeprogram.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;http://trillanesproposedlegislativeprogram.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;If you don&#39;t know him, then get try to visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://whoistrillanes.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;http://whoistrillanes.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt; to know him more. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;Try to visit some of Trillanes-related blogs like &lt;a href=&quot;http://corruptioninthephilippinenavy.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;A Study of Corruption in the Navy&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;http://corruptioninthepnprocurementsystem.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Corruption in the Philippine Navy Procurement System&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://philippinepublicpolicyprocess.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Understanding The Philippine Public Policy Process&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://thetrillanespapers.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;The Greenbase Expose&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://preventingmilitaryintervention.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Preventing Military Intervention&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;If you want to volunteer for the Trillanes for Senator campaign, just visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://kaisanitrillanesatngmagdalo.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Kaisa ni Trillanes at ng Magdalo Para sa Pagbabago&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/1687729235315311239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3853770276100961116/1687729235315311239' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/1687729235315311239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/1687729235315311239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/02/antonio-trillanes-iv-campaign.html' title='The Antonio Trillanes IV Campaign'/><author><name>Kevin Ray N. Chua</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07750863253008213843</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf6xDtuwxhno6J-o4xRJX0OsuHyRrRM5oFtHzYKjcd-ZAw6x9c3loLeHaO9_CTSpVruXkR4Br5k10Xd1zrvgtaYF48xe3ATCBZXLTsHMbvU4N9_CZQlCCWQV-WTLeY_g/s220/kevin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853770276100961116.post-107939597456797992</id><published>2007-02-13T16:41:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-02-13T17:14:39.286+08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="chiz escudero"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="election 2007"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="senators"/><title type='text'>The Chiz Escudero Campaign</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style=&quot;FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 226px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 148px&quot; height=&quot;167&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://chizescudero.com/chiz/newsroom/images/news_013007_ChizFilesCandidacyfortheSenate_01_192x129.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;The election fever has finally started and the campaign season has finally began. Now, let&#39;s focus in this young, active, principled, and articulate candidate for Senator. His track record in the House of Representatives since 1998 is very impressive. His principles are definitely the best as far as I am concerned. His charisma to the people is unmatchable. I referring to none other than &lt;strong&gt;Sorsogon Rep. &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#ffcc00;&quot;&gt;Francis &quot;Chiz&quot; G. Escudero&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;This is his platform:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sa aking pagtakbo bilang senador, layunin ko po na maiparating ang boses ninyo sa Senado upang sama-sama nating ipaglaban ang tama at labanan ang mali. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 118px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 175px&quot; height=&quot;175&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://chizescudero.com/chiz/images/teamChiz_logo_2.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pangunahing pagtutuunan ko ng pansin ay ang maibalik ang dignidad ng bawat Pilipino nang sa gayon ay taas-noo nating harapin ang mga hamon ng tadhana sa pamamagitan ng pagsulong sa mga sumusunod:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;(1) Disenteng tirahan sa bawat Pilipino ayon sa programa ng Gawad Kalinga (GK), di lamang para sa mahihirap kundi pati na rin sa mga ordinaryong empleyado tulad ng mga guro, pulis, sundalo at iba pang mga kawani; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;(2) Kabuhayan at sapat na pagkakakitaan batay sa sariling kakayahan ng bawat pamilyang Pilipino sa pamamagitan ng micro-finance, skills training, at pagbigay ng prayoridad sa sarili nating mamamayan at kababaihang entrepreneur; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;(3) Pagkakataon ng kabataang Pilipino na makapag-aral at makapagtapos mula mababang paaralan hanggang sa kolehiyo sa pamamagitan ng pagbibigay ng sapat na pondo sa mga sate colleges at universities, kaagapay ang pagkilala sa mahalagang papel na ginagampanan ng pribadong sektor sa larangan ng edukasyon; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;(4) Pagkilala sa karapatang makapagpagamot at gumaling sa anumang karamdaman lalung-lalo na ang mga mahihirap at mga may edad; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;(5) Pagtatanggol sa karapatang pantao at pagsupil sa anumang uri ng diskriminasyon; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;(6) Pangangalaga ng ating kalikasan sa pamamagitan ng wastong paggamit nito upang matiyak na ang ating likas na yaman ay mapapakinabangan ng susunod pang mga henerasyon; at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;(7) Isulong at ipaglaban kung anong naaayon sa batas upang makamtan ang katotohanan, katarungan, kalayaan, kapayapaan at pagkakaintindihan nating lahat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ito ang aking mga adhikain at pangarap para sa bawat Pilipino. Hiling at dalangin ko na sama-sama nating pagtulungan na makamtan ang lahat ng ito.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;Ang inyong boses sa Senado,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;CHIZ ESCUDERO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 267px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 172px&quot; height=&quot;106&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://chizescudero.com/chiz/images/sayChiz_logo.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;Visit Rep. Chiz Escudero&#39;s website at &lt;a href=&quot;http://chizescudero.com&quot;&gt;http://chizescudero.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;If you are interested to join the &quot;Say Chiz Escudero&quot;, just register &lt;a href=&quot;http://chizescudero.com/chiz/views_comment.php?act=volunteer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;If you want to join the discussion in Rep. Chiz Escudero&#39;s website, just register &lt;a href=&quot;http://chizescudero.com/phpBB2/profile.php?mode=register&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/107939597456797992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3853770276100961116/107939597456797992' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/107939597456797992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/107939597456797992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/02/chiz-escudero-campaign.html' title='The Chiz Escudero Campaign'/><author><name>Kevin Ray N. Chua</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07750863253008213843</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf6xDtuwxhno6J-o4xRJX0OsuHyRrRM5oFtHzYKjcd-ZAw6x9c3loLeHaO9_CTSpVruXkR4Br5k10Xd1zrvgtaYF48xe3ATCBZXLTsHMbvU4N9_CZQlCCWQV-WTLeY_g/s220/kevin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853770276100961116.post-8607307553349653021</id><published>2007-02-11T16:45:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-02-11T18:21:21.521+08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="election 2007"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="senators"/><title type='text'>2007 Senatoriables: Who should win</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;For the past days, I have been glued to ABS-CBN, GMA, blogs and news websites about the composition of the United Opposition and Team Unity (and also independent senatoriables). Well, as far as I am concerned, I have already finished my ideal list of winners for the 2007 Philippine Senate elections. I have based my criteria on their respective track records, advocacies, publicity and their popularity (the last thing that I had considered). And here&#39;s the list:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Francis G. Escudero&lt;/strong&gt; - This son of former Rep. Salvador H. Escudero III is a young, articulate, intelligent, vocal and principled man. He has really made a big impact on my political leanings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Allan Peter S. Cayetano &lt;/strong&gt;- This son of former Sen. Renato Cayetano and brother of Sen. Pia Cayetano is also a young, intelligent, smart and a brave man. When he accused the First Gentlemen on his alleged German bank accounts, he never surrendered and even made me impressed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Juan Miguel F. Zubiri &lt;/strong&gt;- This son of former Rep. Jose Zubiri, Jr. is also a young, humble and environmentalist man. His advocacy of protecting the environment made up my decision. It is just good that environmental issues be brought to serious consideration in the Senate as we brace for the worst of global warming.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael T. Defensor&lt;/strong&gt; - This son of Rep. Matias Defensor is also a young, vocal, friendly and active man. He defends what he says and he sticks to his principles. His call for Erap&#39;s release is a good thing that would make him win the election. He may also see his bestfriend in the Senate, Chiz Escudero.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aquilino D. Pimentel III&lt;/strong&gt; - This son of Sen. Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. is a young, professional, energetic and intelligent man. His track record in his law profession and being a bar topnotcher is definitely a great testament that he&#39;s ready for the public office.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Loren R. Legarda&lt;/strong&gt; - She has the strong symbol of woman empowerment. Her track record in the Senate surpasses Richard Gomez&#39;s accomplishments in showbiz. Her charisma to the people would make her number 1 again in the elections.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Antonio F. Trillanes IV&lt;/strong&gt; - You may wonder why I am supporting this coup plotter. Well, he maybe the next Gringo Honasan in your own point of view. But on mine, he&#39;s gonna uncover the stinks of the Philippine Armed Forces. The reason of their coup attempt was justified thus, he can correct it properly because he came from that organization.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III &lt;/strong&gt;- This son of former Sen. Benigno Aquino, Jr. and former Pres. Corazon Aquino is a young, good and energetic man. His public service to his constituents in Tarlac bared fruits and indeed made his people admire him. So, why not an Aquino again in the Senate?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Manuel B. Villar, Jr.&lt;/strong&gt; - This former House Speaker is a very productive man when it comes to legislations that were of quality and of quantity. His dedication to his service in the Senate was proven since 2001. He should be given another term by the electorate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Panfilo M. Lacson&lt;/strong&gt; - This former PNP Chief is also a very productive and very brave that he uncovers expose&#39; that we have never expected before. He should be placing 2nd in the elections because of his iron-fist policies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Francis N. Pangilinan&lt;/strong&gt; - This husband of actress Sharon Cuneta is great senator. His Comprehensive Juvenile Justice Law is definitely his best product. So, why should the voter spare him another term?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sonia M. Roco&lt;/strong&gt; - The proposed programs of his late husband, former Sen. Raul Roco, would definitely be back if ever she&#39;s in the Senate. The people would really admire her because her platform is just the same as her late husband. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/8607307553349653021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3853770276100961116/8607307553349653021' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/8607307553349653021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/8607307553349653021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/02/2007-senatoriables-who-should-win_11.html' title='2007 Senatoriables: Who should win'/><author><name>Kevin Ray N. Chua</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07750863253008213843</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf6xDtuwxhno6J-o4xRJX0OsuHyRrRM5oFtHzYKjcd-ZAw6x9c3loLeHaO9_CTSpVruXkR4Br5k10Xd1zrvgtaYF48xe3ATCBZXLTsHMbvU4N9_CZQlCCWQV-WTLeY_g/s220/kevin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853770276100961116.post-2285369414839280987</id><published>2007-02-11T13:42:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-02-11T16:28:33.310+08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="first post"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="welcome"/><title type='text'>Welcome everyone!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://photos.friendster.com/photos/50/63/10953605/735582151l.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 358px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 263px&quot; height=&quot;234&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://photos.friendster.com/photos/50/63/10953605/735582151l.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;Welcome everyone! I am &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#ff6600;&quot;&gt;Kevin Ray N. Chua&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and I am back to political commentaries. I have been blogging seldomly and I have thought of making a comeback. Now, with this political commentary blog about politics, here in the Philippines and even overseas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;I am very grateful that a lot of people have remembered me, and asked me to return in this kind of blogging. Honestly, I really miss this thing. I have returned. So, watch out for my political commentaries, especially about the upcoming 2007 Midterm elections!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;Your Blogger,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#33cc00;&quot;&gt;KEVIN RAY CHUA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/2285369414839280987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3853770276100961116/2285369414839280987' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/2285369414839280987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3853770276100961116/posts/default/2285369414839280987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://krcpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/02/hi.html' title='Welcome everyone!'/><author><name>Kevin Ray N. 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