Ito naman si Joker Arroyo. Talaga namang kampi kay Gloria at kay Mike Arroyo noon pa. At gusto lang naman kumandidato na wala siyang gastos, kung ano-ano pa ang sinasabi.
Sinabi ni Arroyo sa interview sa ANC na kaya raw ayaw siya sumama sa ticket ng oposisyon dahil kasama raw si Sonny Trillanes na nagtangkang patalsikin si Gloria Arroyo noong July 2003.
Ito yung Oakwood mutiny. Dahil doon nakakulong si Trillanes hanggang ngayon.
Despite obvious indications that Joselito Pepito Cayetano is a nuisance candidate out to ruin all “Cayetano” votes for Alan Peter Cayetano, Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos said they cannot disqualify the former because he was sponsored by a Comelec-registered party, Kilusan ng Bagong Lipunan.
Alan didn’t mince words and attributed to Mike Arroyo the dirty tricks.
The Malacañang connection is bolstered by the statement by presidential legal counsel Sergio Apostol that between Joselito and Alan, it could even be Alan who is a nuisance candidate because Joselito filed ahead of Alan.
Last Monday Navy Lt (s.g) Antonio Trillanes asked permission from the Makati Regional Trial Court to be allowed to grant media interviews. The DOJ is opposing it. Click here.
Meanwhile,the Magdalo Group has launched an online campaign for Trillanes in defiance of an earlier warning by the military leadership against engaging in partisan political activity.
Press Secretary Bunye’s line was Gloria Arroyo will be ‘concentrating on governance’ so she won’t be joining the administration’s senatorial candidates in their campaign. Of course, that’s their ploy to deflect the real issue in this election which is Gloria Arroyo. Even her senatorial candidates are ashamed of her.
Here’s Malaya’s story:
TEAM Unity senatorial candidates have asked President Arroyo to distance herself from their campaign sorties so as not to doom their chances of winning, Malacañang sources said yesterday.
The sources said former presidential chief of staff Michael Defensor, the only former Cabinet member running in the administration senatorial ticket, was tapped as messenger by his fellow candidate.
Walang-wala ang tiket ni Gloria Arroyo sa kalidad ng nasa oposisyon na ngayon ay tinatawag na Grand Coalition.
Kahit na may ilan na hindi ko gusto (ganyan lang talaga ang buhay, hindi perpekto), sa kabuuan makikita natin na talagang maingat na pinag-isipan ng mga lider ng oposisyon na sina dating Pangulong Estrada, Makati Mayor Jojo Binay, dating Senate President Ernesto Maceda, Malaya columnist Lito Banayo, Rufus Rodriguez at iba ang tiket.
Boxing champ Manny Pacquiao today said he is determined to enter politics in this coming May elections.
Pacquiao will contest the congressional seat currently held by Darlene Antonino-Custodio in the first district of South Cotabato.
Update: Custodio unfazed by Pacquiao’s planned candidacy.
The 24-year old Custodio has made a mark in the House of Representatives for actively participating in the impeachment complaints against Gloria Arroyo and in opposing the Con-Ass railroaded by the House majority last December.
While the United Opposition is looking for a name that will truly describe the grand coalition that they are now, San Juan Mayor JV Ejercito has accepted the role of campaign manager for the senatorial slate.
Opposition sources said, former Senate President Enesto Maceda will take the tougher job of assembling the local line-up for the opposition.
The opposition senatorial ticket is “a grand coalition of people from all sectors— women, the youth, the political sector and civil society,” grand coalition spokesman Adel Tamano said.
Lito Banayo, who had been speaking for UNO, will be running for representative of Manila (Ermita distict).
Senators Joker Arroyo and Ralph Recto truly belong to Gloria Arroyo.
We can now throw away whatever illusions we had nurtured for Joker in matters of democratic ideals, honesty and integrity. Never mind Recto. We never expected much from him.
A conversation I heard last week between a PDP-Laban stalwart and a reporter who covered the 2001 senatorial campaign should help explain Joker Arroyo’s puzzling maneuvers in the Senate when it comes to issues against Mike Arroyo as well as his decision to be on the administration ticket for his re-election bid.
Detained Lt.(sg) Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes is included in the United Opposition line up, UNO announced today.
For Trillanes’ legislative program visit www.magdaloparasapagbabago.blogspot.com
Update:Troops campaigning for Trillanes to be sacked, AFP says. Click here.
Try not to puke as you read this:
We ran for the Senate and won on the Arroyo administration slate. Nothing
that has happened since gives us reason not to do the same in our reelection
bid.
We have opposed the President on many major issues, before the Supreme Court no less. And we won.
We fought the Venable contract which involved American money to change the Constitution. We fought the People’s Initiative to do the same. We fought the emasculation of Congress by EO 464 and put the PCGG back under the law when it tried to rise above it. We fought Proclamation 1017, which curtailed freedom of assembly and freedom of the press.