By VERA Files and YouthVotePhilippines
WHATEVER the final outcome of the tightly contested vice presidential race, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay has made history by being the first local official to be possibly catapulted to a top national position, just a breath away from the presidency. Unlike another former mayor, Joseph Estrada, Binay bypassed Congress in his quest for a top post.
But Binay’s journey from being a far third at the start of the campaign to becoming the frontrunner in the national canvassing does not surprise fellow mayors and other local executives who say he prepared for it long ago. The Makati mayor made smart use of vast resources and backed these up with an underground operation that included an in-your-face infiltration of a rival political organization.
The latest count by the Senate and House of Representatives acting as National Board of Canvassers shows the Liberal Party’s Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III with a commanding lead of 5.5 million over former president Joseph Estrada of Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino.
But the vice presidential race is still too close to call with the PMP’s Binay posting 14,084,879 votes against the 13,440,127 votes of LP’s Manuel “Mar” Roxas.
Binay leads by 644,752 with some 1.4 million votes still to be canvassed.
This cliffhanger finale to the 2010 elections was unthinkable at the start of the campaign period when Aquino and Roxas topped the Social Weather Stations’ December 2009 survey with 40-percent respondents’ approval. Loren Legarda of the Nacionalista Party was a distant second with 32 percent, and Binay trailed far behind with 10 percent.
But interviews by VERA Files reveal Binay is now merely reaping the rewards of a nationwide network laid out nearly two decades ago when he launched a sister-city program linking Makati with other local government units.
With a P12 billion annual budget, Binay’s Makati could afford to be generous. Since the early 1990s, Makati has forged sisterhood ties with more than 200 municipalities and cities all over the country, advising them on public management, subsidizing computerization training of municipal government employees, providing computer equipment, giving scholarships to poor students from the provinces in Makati City schools, and making available the city’s modern medical facilities.
Binay is also known to be quick in giving at least P50 million in financial assistance to a sister municipality in need, such as in times of calamity.
In his visit to Catbalogan, Samar in March 2009, Binay told reporters that Makati’s sisterhood program had nothing to do with his announced plan to run for president. “Aside from extending assistance and goodwill to other cities and municipalities, the sisterhood is also a good way for LGUs to exchange ideas and best practices on governance,” he said.
Binay had initially aimed for the presidency, refusing invitations from the Liberal party to join its senatorial ticket, saying that his expertise is as an executive and not as a legislator. He only slid down to the vice presidency when Estrada decided to run for president.
The Makati mayor gained valuable exposure to the masses in provincial sorties with the popular Estrada. Sources knowledgeable about the Estrada campaign said Binay underwrote the bulk of the PMP campaign expenses.
Binay solidified his linkages with LGUs with his friendship with 78 other city mayors who compose the League of Cities of the Philippines. This is best shown in Metro Manila’s results where the winning team was Aquino-Binay.
The SWS exit poll showed Binay’s support cutting across party lines. Majority of supporters of NP’s Manuel Villar, Lakas-Kampi-CMD’s Gilbert Teodoro and other presidential candidates had him as vice president.
A source close to one of the Metro Manila mayors said Binay campaigned only for himself with his fellow city mayors, telling them he understood their commitment to another presidential candidate. Estrada showed his displeasure by leaving blank the slot for vice president in his ballot, which was captured on camera on May 10.
Another national organization that Binay cultivated through the years was the Boys Scouts of the Philippines and its allied fraternity, the Alpha Phi Omega.
People made fun of the diminutive mayor looking like an overaged boy in his Boy Scout uniform. But what many didn’t realize was that whenever Binay donned those khaki shorts, he was reaffirming his ties with the 3.5 million members of the organization and establishing a connection with their parents and other family members.
While Binay’s low-key building of national networks would make a good study of effective campaign strategy, his masterstroke was the infiltration of Aquino’s campaign organization.
“There’s no way that Mar (Roxas) could have won with the betrayal from within their campaign organization,” a veteran journalist remarked, sharing his conversation with Aquino’s campaign manager Florencio “Butch” Abad, who was concerned about the activities of the NoyNoy Aquino for President Movement.
NAPM is headed by Ed Roces, son of the late Joaquin “Chino” Roces, founder and publisher of The Manila Times who was responsible for convincing the late Cory Aquino to challenge Ferdinand Marcos for the presidency in 1986.
Abad, the journalist source said, was disturbed that NAPM was campaigning for a Noynoy-Binay ticket from its campaign headquarters in Parc House Building along EDSA, just two floors above the LP office.
It was not only NAPM that was campaigning for a Noy-Bi ticket among Aquino’s supporters. There was the “Yellow Force” reportedly headed by Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski, daughter of Aquino’s brother Jose “Peping” Cojuangco, the gay organization “Ang Ladlad,” the People’s Patriotic Movement, and Council for Philippine Affairs.
Friends of COPA leader Pastor “Boy” Saycon speak of a roomful of Noy-Bi materials when visiting his Makati office. COPA includes Peping Cojuangco and his wife, Margarita, and Philippine Star columnist Billy Esposo.
Other Aquino relatives campaigning for Noy-Bi were Jose Maria “Boy” Montelibano and his wife Maria, who headed Radio TV Malacanang when Cory Aquino was president and who was active in Noynoy’s presidential campaign.
Boy Montelibano, in his column in Inquirer online, said Roxas has only himself to blame for his defeat: “It (a Binay victory) has caused allegedly well-bred people to cross lines of decency and engage in gutter behavior in blaming others for what cannot be but a serious error of the core of Mar Roxas’s campaign. For a candidate to lose a lead of over 30 percent in three months without realizing it until the last moment is a classic case of political ineptness. The inept, therefore, have to point the blame on others, a usual human tendency. “
Campaign strategist Malou Tiquia of Publicus, who helped Roxas’ senatorial campaign in 2004, has a similar observation, although put in gentler terms. “Mar was too complacent. This is not the Mar of 2004 who was well-prepared with a good message, an organized ground troop and an air war with a storyline strategy.”
“My reading of him was he was too burned-out after sliding down to number two, and my sense was he was banking on the ‘sacrifice’ to get the home run,” Tiquia added. Roxas, who had been nurturing his own presidential ambition for years, gave way so that Noynoy could become LP standard-bearer, amid public clamor in the weeks after Cory’s death in August.
Tiquia noted that Roxas’s ads did not “embrace” Aquino’s anti-corruption theme and that he was not able to communicate what a vice president can do. “He was more of Mr. Palengke than a partner of Noy,” she said.
Since sliding down to vice president, Roxas had consistently maintained a commanding lead against his then closest rival, Legarda, until polls showed Binay catching up in April.
And then there was Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero who withdrew from the presidential race in November 2009 and then announced he would be supporting Binay for vice president. Escudero and Binay worked together as part of Fernando Poe Jr.’s presidential campaign in 2004. Escudero did not immediately announce who he was supporting for president.
In February, when Aquino’s rating was declining and Villar was catching up with him, Aquino revamped his campaign organization and brought in Escudero, whose team handled media operations. They are believed responsible for the exposés against Villar that paved the way for an Aquino surge.
In April, Escudero, while managing the Aquino campaign’s media operations, came out with TV ads endorsing Binay for vice president. The next surveys after the endorsement had Binay slightly ahead of Roxas.
Tiquia does not credit Binay’s surge to Escudero’s endorsement. “Binay was already on the rise when it came out,” she said. “What it perhaps did was to raise the ante. The timing of the endorsement created that kick to the end game.”
University of the Philippines political science professor Miriam Coronel-Ferrer agreed with Tiquia. “The vaunted appeal of ‘NoyBi’ is a myth. Let’s not give too much credit to Chiz Escudero, Ang Ladlad, and the faction of the Coryistas who supported Binay,” she said.
Ferrer did an analysis of votes based on figures from the electronic data maps prepared by Cybersoft GeoInfomatics for the Philippine Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting. The running tallies were computed from about 90 percent of election returns.
“Aquino and Roxas dominated all other tandems in terms of sheer number of votes,” said Ferrer. “NoyBi is leading in eight or majority of the regions, but contrary to what most people think, Binay benefitted primarily from being Estrada’s running mate and only in a small way from the NoyBi vote configuration.”
Ferrer pointed out that Aquino and Roxas led the race in Western and Central Visayas and the Caraga regions, while Estrada and Binay prevailed in Cagayan Valley, Northern Mindanao, Davao and Soccsksargen.
“Assuming all Erap supporters also voted for Binay, about 8.7 million of his votes can be accounted for. But he has about five million more votes than Erap,” she said.
Ferrer said the gap between the votes of Teodoro and his running mate, Eduardo Manzano, was a possible source for about 2.9 million votes for Binay. “A secondary source is the 1.2 million more people who voted for Villar but not for Loren,” she said
“Binay should thank Gibo’s and Villar’s supporters instead,” Ferrer said.
What makes this year’s intrigue-ridden vice presidential race interesting, however, goes beyond the results of this election. It could be a preview of the 2016 presidential contest.
The first boy scout to become President? 😛
Ooops… I mean Vice President. Hehehe 😛
Why haven’t they finished canvassing the VP slot votes yet? Amazing!
how true are the allegations that every new condominium project in makati must subcontract with the construction company owned by binay’s relative?
Mar has to accept that his track record of making balimbing twice in his political career, his previous association with Gloria and his absence from the Marcos era struggle were the things that brought him down.
Binay, on the other hand, was able to clearly show that he was anti-Gloria all the way, that he was in the forefront during the Marcos era struggle and he was able to contrast all of these sharply with Roxas’ poor record.
Loyalty for the right cause pays ………
Korina sanchez became the liability of Mar , many did not forget how Korina cried and whine over the radio one day after Mar gave up presidential candidacy in favor of Noynoy.
Mayor (VP presumed) Binay deserves the mandate vested in him by the people. I congratulate him. He worked the grassroots and capitalized on the “Sister City” he has forged, and they are plenty. Similarly, his and Noy’s campaign of ala-pyramid scheme tactic gained so much voters. While Noynoy have the “Gimme 5 For Noynoy”, Binay has 20, imagine that! No wonder their (Noynoy and Binay’s)numbers are similar. Not to mention that plenty of Legarda’s voters switched to Binay, especially after the VP Forum held at La Consolacion College.
Here’s to you Mayor (VP presumed) Binay!
Tungkol kay Mar, sa mga naninira sa kanya.
Sino sa mga kilala ninyong tao, may mataas na posisyon sa gobyerno ang tumugon sa panawagan ng isang hindi niya kilala sa minsang pagdulog lamang?
Ako ang makapagpapatunay na si G. Mar Roxas ay hindi katulad ng sinasabi ng ilan tungkol sa kanya sapagkat ang sinasabi kong dumulog upang humingi ng tulong ay walang iba kundi AKO!
Sa dinami dami ng mga pinadalhan ko ng e-mail, sa bunton ng mga senador natin ay SI G. MAR ROXAS lamang ang personal na tumugon. Hindi pa malay na magpahayag siya ng naudlot na kandidatura sa pagka-presidente noong bago magtapos ang 2008.
‘Yung ibang mapagkawanggawa daw, hindi ba’t hanggang sa harap lamang ng kamera ang pagdamay?
Why haven’t they finished canvassing the VP slot votes yet? Amazing! – Anna.
Paano’ng matatapos eto, o!
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=581471&publicationSubCategoryId=63
Why haven’t they finished canvassing the VP slot votes yet? Amazing! – Anna.
Paano’ng matatapos eto, o! – mpr
Ini smart matic matic ang botong 1.45 million. Pag hinati, panalo pa rin si Binay. The commissioners on elections must be waiting for a huge bribe money from either the Binay camp or Mar’s. The highest bidder wins, wink!
TB,
Ikaw, ha?
Nang-iintriga ka na naman.
Baka madoble na ‘yung bayaran. Sobra na.
MP #9 on Mar.
I agree, Mar is good guy and would assist anyone in dire need, without fanfare. I also remember him as the one who tried to keep Jun Lozada out of jail, and one of the Firsts to visit Jun whlst at MPD.
Mar poured his funds into Noynoy’s campaign, especially when Noy’s ratings were going downhill and Villar’s was going up. The order of the day at Mar’s Campaign HQ is that, Noy and Mar must be promoted at the same time. Insisting that, the priority is for Noy to get elected.
Korina, for her part, did remarkable campaigning. It’s just that Binay’s caampaign was apparently more effective.
I have high respects for both Mar and Jojo, and are grateful to them both. Either one of them would be a great help and complement to Noy’s leadership.
I trust that the Filipino people would be empowered and hopefully get back on their feet.
Many moons ago, at the height of the NBN-ZTE senate hearings, I have lost confidence and hope for our country. Chi and Yuko gave me encouraging words, I thank them for that. I am optimistic that with Noy’s administration, the right thing would be done. Six years is too short to do a complete recovery, but I sure hope the momentum would be enough to thrust us into a new direction.
Godspeed to all!
Kapatid,
Agree.
Although I supported Mar, Jojo Binay has also a soft spot in me being a fraternal brother. Should Mar went on with his presidential ambition, I would have and surely supported Jojo. Kaso, nagbigay daan si Mar kay Noynoy while Jojo Binay threw his hat in the vice presidential derby only during the last minute of filing candidacy in the Commolect.
Mahirap namang bawiin ‘yung committed support kay Mar. Baka lumabas pang para akong katulad ni Ate Neri na laging pouting lips kahit walang sinisipsip na kendi.
Magno,
Don’t know Binay, the mayor, at all (met him once accidentally at a restaurant in Paris but not remotely enough to say I know him)… although seems to me he’s done a great job in Makati.
I’m curious, is he really a good administrator?
kapatid, natandaan mo pala yun. Look what that brought us, nandito pa rin tayo at topic pa rin ang ZTE/NBN sa recent loop. 🙂
I didn’t have a hard time choosing for my vp. Bumaba sya, bumaba din ako. Mar was my presidential bet even after Noynoy won 🙂
Magno (#10)
Yan ang problema ko sa adjournment sine die declaration ni Nograles.
The canvass is conducted by Congress in joint public session. The Constitution said Congress, not a committee of Congress. So kung adjourned na ang House, paano pang mag-ca-canvass?
So can the proclamation be valid?
Mistake ba yan? O sinadya?
Re Anna’s question #15
Tongue is in a better position to answer this.
Seeing Makati now, no doubt Binay is a good administrator. But more can be done with the resources that Makati has. There are still a lot of depressed areas.
I also cannot say he is morally upright.
Ellen,
I also cannot say he is morally upright.
A friend of mine, another journalist (someone I believe you didn’t exactly like) said something similar and something to do with what Tongue had implied earlier, eg., questionable deals.
The depressed areas in Makati is where Binay gets his votes. It will still remain depressed during the term of his son, Junjun.
Ancient rulers, especially tyrants don’t allow their subjects to have an education and become wiser then them. They’re (the subjects) easier to manipulate. It’s still in practice today. 😛
They’re (the subjects) easier to manipulate. It’s still in practice today. 😛 – Mike
Extraordinarily true…
Mike,
Where exactly are the depressed areas in Makati? Except for the red-light district (can’t remember name of street), which is “not” actually depressed, must say, I’ve not seen them.
Must also admit, have not visited all of Makati.
Any leader (local or national) cannot just be judged by his/her accomplishments in each area of constituency. Tulad na rin nang sinabi ni Ellen, hindi niya masasabing morally upright si Jojo Binay, but proofs of his above par leadership is the progress of Makati.
Kung meron mang bahid dungis ang kanyang pamumuno, siguro naman TINGA lamang ‘yun kung ikukumpara sa mga kinurakot ng pamilya arroyo.
Anna, the depressed areas of Makati are those along JP Rizal – where the old municipal hall still stands. Where San Miguel Village, Rizal Village, and the less flashier villages of Makati ends, poverty and despair begins.
In the boundaries of Makati and Pasay along the banks of the creek where BLTB bus co. used to have their terminal, a huge squatter colony was almost wiped out in both sides during the last Christmas eve. In the barangay where the Binay ancestral house stands, the poor abound. The voters in these places far outnumber the votes of the gated communities by double.
I’m not sure where they relocated the squatters along the railroad tracks from Vito Cruz all the way to Fort Bonifacio but until recently, those were living monuments of the great disparity among Makati’s residents. I guess the fight against poverty also meant physical elimination of their makeshift, if you can call it, homes.
With almost all of the taxes of big business concentrated in one little city, of course it is expected that its executives spend most of it on its people, no less.
I’d say that if even just a quarter of the country’s GDP is created in this little city, and it might be even more, then the much vaunted success leaves much to be desired.
hindi solo at si Binay lang ang nakatulong to make Makati what it is now….ang mga Ayala may nagawa! si Nemesio Yabut ay may na contribute din…masuerte lang si Binay na financially maayos ang Makati when he came in and he was able to use all these resources to make what Makati is now..malaki ang naitulong ng mga Ayala…investment perhaps for them….but nevertheless it was a ghood investment..masuerte lang si Binay…
I have not heard of that issue, as isaganaigatmaitan says, new projects have to subcontract with his relative, but what I do know is that any high-rise building that needs occupancy permits pay in hundreds of millions. Or no deal. But that is the least of his sins.
Being the human rights lawyer he says he is, I doubt if he practices the principles of the same. My former neighbor (former, because his body had not been seen for decades) was a very popular figure in the underworld for being a quick trigger and most sought-after gun-for-hire. Binay hired him as close-in security, legitimizing his service by taking him in as CIS Civilian Agent. Those were the days when even Cardinal Sin approved of Cory’s support for local administrators with vigilante forces which thrust into the limelight Rod Duterte, Manny Piñol, Edward Hagedorn, and yes, Jojo Binay.
Try applying for a business permit in Makati, even for a small store. Siguradong uuwi kang nag-ngingitngit sa galit at inis. I heard that San Juan is more friendlier to business applicants not because they don’t ask for “lagay”, it’s just that their greed is moderate compared to other cities. 🙂
Anna, the red-light district is in Burgos-Makati Ave.-Kalayaan. The clubs are mostly owned, and frequented by, foreigners. These days, Korean stores line the streets, it’s their version of our sari-sari stores.
In the days when you were still here you might have noticed the cabarets (not like those cabarets you have in Paris!) it’s the local “kabaret’ literally red lights and all, where men buy tickets which they paid their hostesses with, one ticket one dance. This is in the rotunda where the Sta. Ana race track once was.
To see if Makati is really doing its job, go check how much any of the Ayala sons is paying for personal income tax.
I wish there were local businessmen as upright as, say, “the Sage of Omaha”, Warren Buffet, who once challenged Forbes’ top 400 businessmen that he will donate a million dollars to charity if they could prove that they were paying more tax each than their respective executive secretaries.
Tongue,
Magnificent lowdown on Makati. Thank you!
Yes, I remember Burgos st (wwith karaoke clubs cum brothels, I suppose?) where my local gentlemen agents would take my foreign male team (without me which I resented greatly)… recounted stories of our sorties in previous threads in this same Ellen blog years ago :-):-) 🙂
To see if Makati is really doing its job, go check how much any of the Ayala sons is paying for personal income tax.
Is there a possibility that taxes they paid were also misspent by city authorities?
but what I do know is that any high-rise building that needs occupancy permits pay in hundreds of millions. Or no deal.
In 1996, Tony Leviste and his brother Conrad did hint to me that they had to pay more than the required permit fees to build their LPL buildings.
binay is fortunate that he heads makati, the premier city in the country where business and commercial concerns are concentrated. only a grossly incompetent mayor will fail in makati. also most of the physical improvements were private undertakings. i would like to see how binay would fare in olongapo (after the us bases pullout) and marikina.
n the days when you were still here you might have noticed the cabarets (not like those cabarets you have in Paris!) it’s the local “kabaret’ literally red lights and all, where men buy tickets which they paid their hostesses with, one ticket one dance. This is in the rotunda where the Sta. Ana race track once was.
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Nowadays you go to Burgos St., I particularly like Divino with its Russian models, I swear it was Kirsten Dunst, another looked like Paris Hilton… 🙂
Is there a possibility that taxes they paid were also misspent by city authorities?
That is the “kalakaran” in many other places. But in “lucky” cities like Makati, the taxes payable are haggled between the payer and the payee so the figures are massaged. Cities get 40% from all the taxes collected as Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA). You deduct this from the amount you remit to the National Government of the taxes and fees collected.
During tax time, auditors from City Hall descend on your company’s accounting department and examine your books. If the negotiations go well, you can bring down your taxes to half with the aid of these auditors. Whatever you save, you share part of it to their boss who usually fronts for the chief. Big discounts are always good for business. This is an open secret among businessmen.
If you do not play their game, expect to see a barrage of inspectors from city hall’s various departments – fire inspection, occupational safety, mechanical and electrical engineering, building inspection – and you get a long, long checklist of violations in each area of concern. Without these guys’ signatures, do not expect to get a Mayor’s Permit to operate, which you secure every January. No permit, no operations.
The campaign brag about “Ganito kami sa Makati, ganito rin sana sa buong bansa” is therefore, as empty as Jacob’s kettle. I challenge him to replicate his feats in Makati in ARMM, Abra, or Samar where there is not much revenue, if any at all.
Try applying for a business permit in Makati, even for a small store. Siguradong uuwi kang nag-ngingitngit sa galit at inis. I heard that San Juan is more friendlier to business applicants not because they don’t ask for “lagay”, it’s just that their greed is moderate compared to other cities. – Mike
Las Piñas is “friendliest” to new businesses. Even to mere residents paying their “cedulas”. Nene Aguilar sees to it that all transactions at City Hall are fast and clean and convenient to all his residents. The lobbies are air-conditioned with TV monitors to kill the boredom of people in queues. All processes are computerized and fixers are banned. No wonder, Aguilar is probably Las Piñas’ longest-serving mayor.
Ellen,
Just read the article carefully. Firstly, let me say it was like reading a fast paced thriller story. Full of drama and exciting twists.
Amazing turn of events indeed and you recounted it with great aplomb. Thanks. Understand now what happened. Indeed preparation is half the key to sure victory.
As Sun Tzu said, The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
Part of Binay’s prepation for the national position was a physical make over. He underwent lessons in public speaking and projection at the Robert Powers Finishing school in makati.
Thanks, Anna.
So….. Binay wins the Vice-Presidency!!!
Congrats Vice-President Jejomar Binay!!! Isa kang tunay na boyscout!!!!
You did your HOMEWORK!!!
Sana maging DILG Secretary ka…. kung hindi ka pag-iinitan ni Noynoy dahil tinalo mo si Mar.
My sympathy to Mar. But do not lose hope. ‘Andito pa rin kami para suportahan ka, (either sa) 2013 if you decide to run again sa senate at/0 2016 sa una mong ambisyon, ang presidency.
My best wishes naman kay VP Jojo Binay. Congratulations, Bro!
Ganyan talaga ang politics ngayon…. may Nananalo,,, may Natatalo.
Noon dati daw hindi pa Automated ang Election… ang battle cry ng mga Politicians ay dalawa lang.
Isang NANALO at isang Dinaya, meaning walang talo. hehe!
Siguro ang pagkapanalo ni VP Binay ay Gods Will,,, Democracy ika nga sabi ni Maam Ellen.
At least patapos ang ang pekeng pangulo na may peking suso na utangera ng bayan.
Move Forward Philippines!
Na-underestimate ni kuya Mar si Rambotito. Parang si Rambo, bigla na lang sumulpot sa tubig at nagratatat….
Naniniwala ako na malinis ang panalo ni Binay. Iproklama na silang dalawa ni Noynoy para makasimula na ang bagong buhay Pinas, kung ano man yun ay ewan ko…..
Parang si Rambo, bigla na lang sumulpot
Hahaha…
Reminds me of Gloria Macapagal too. When she was asked by Erap to join her cabinet she chose the SWD portfolio because she knew that it was the best way to get through to grassroots in preparation for 2004 election (after Erap); two years waiting and preparing… And then all of a sudden, sumpulot na siya, presidente na kaagad… 🙂
Magno, APO is a potent force when it comes to politics by its sheer numbers. I saw their motorcade in San Pedro during their January founding day, the National Road from the Muntinlupa boundary all the way to Biñan was lined with young men all dressed in black t-shirts with the APO logo. Traffic had to stop for about 30 mins. to give way to the very, very long motorcade made up of hundreds of cars, jeeps and motorcycles. I believe they have the same number of active members in many other towns and cities.
Ellen is right, APO is a Boy Scouts spinoff org which started in the US and brought here by the Americans, first to FEU until it spread all over the country, even out-of-school gang members today consider themselves Po-Aps. Congrats sa brod mo, Mags.
Nathan, hindi pwedeng pag-initan ni Noynoy si Binay, gagalit nanay niya. 🙂
Oo nga chi, Noy nay…! Hehe!
Pero sana maging DILG Secretary si VP Binay kasi bagay na bagay sa kanya yan… dyan sya magling at malaking tulong yan para ni Pres. Aquino.
Pero Chi, hindi sila magka partido, i know theres a posibility na pag initan sya ng Liberal Party at madala si Pres. Aquino sa “Bulong Brigade” at tagasulsol.
Alam natin na masakit sa LP ang nangyari at pag naging DILG Vice President Binay… huwag nilang ismolin yan… talagang magaling yan… baka mas lalo syang lumakas na kainggitan ng mga taga LP at “Bulong Brigade” “Sipsip ng Bayan” or AIDS- Akoy Isang Dakilang Sipsip. Hehe!
Wait and see nalang tayo kung ano desisyon ni Pres Noynoy.
From GMANews online:
Belying rumors of their rift, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay on Tuesday thanked his running-mate, former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada, after learning that he has won the vice presidential race based on the final tally by the Congress.
Binay, who finished with 14,645,574 votes, also thanked his fraternity, the Alpha Phi Omega, for supporting his candidacy.
“Salamat kay Pangulong Erap at sa fraternity ko, sa Alpha Phi Omega [Thank you to President Estrada and to my fraternity, the Alpha Phi Omega],” Binay said in a radio interview after a press conference held in his residence in Makati City Tuesday afternoon.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/192971/binay-thanks-erap-frat-mates-for-victory
Big blunder!
Sorry, it was not APO that had a successful motorcade last January in San Pedro. It was the rival frat, Tau Gamma Phi.
Erase, erase, erase!