By MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA
A
presidential poll survey conducted by Manila Standard Today (MST) last May 8 to
18 said that Vice President Jejomar Binay plunged to 28% points while Senator
Grace Poe breathes at the back of his neck like an albatross with 24% points
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I
don’t know how scientific this 1,200 respondents fairly spread all over the
country based on status
of works, ages, to name a few of the country’s demography as polled by veteran
pollster Junie Laylo - an in-house surveyor of
MST, but if the next poll conducted by the Social Weather Station and
Pulse Asia had covered June 2 to 5 media’s hullaballoo that Poe, a foundling,
has been left as an infant inside the Jaro Cathedral in Jaro, Iloilo (psst our
ancestral home is just at the back of the church, teh-heh!) by her poor parent
to be picked by the daughter of an illustrative family named Jalandoni, gee
whiz I bet, Grace poll’s stocks would eclipse those of Binay and dusted off
those sorry presidential wannabees trying their best to boost their polls
rating.
Filipinos
love those with sorry stories like the one Mary Grace Poe had.
The
survey also tells that if either one of all the putative presidential rivals of
Poe withdrawS they would vote for the lady senator.
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Oh,
the survey also polled who lands on the Top 12 of the senatorial race in the
2016 polls.
Sad
to tell you folks that “si “Push mo iyan
‘teh” former Pangasinan Congresswoman Rachel Arenas, did not make it. If
Arenas, who I met at Davao City’s airport last week, was excluded, Sarangani
Congressman Manny Pacquiao, known for his patent and scandalous absences in the
August Chamber every time it has a session, became shoo-in.
Geez,
the guy, known as mambubutas ng upu-an sa
Congress (a dead wood congressman), has not yet started to spend in the hustling his U.S
$160 million or P7 billion (inclusive of taxes and shares of his team) took on
his ho-hum mega fight with boxing king Floyd Mayweather.
I
felt sad this clown Pacquiao inclusion for the Magic 12 as his presence
would have been an insult to brilliant Senate members that awed Filipinos once
a upon a time.
Names like Jovito Salonga, Claro M. Recto, Arturo Tolentino, Rene Saguisag, and others made us stand tall whenever we remembered how they deliberate on proposed laws on the hallowed halls of the August Chamber. Present breed like Alan Peter Cayetano, Chiz Escudero, Merriam Defensor-Santiago make us stout hearted every time they cross examined their devious resource persons thinking at least taxpayers monies did not go to drain in paying the salaries and emoluments of these solons.
Names like Jovito Salonga, Claro M. Recto, Arturo Tolentino, Rene Saguisag, and others made us stand tall whenever we remembered how they deliberate on proposed laws on the hallowed halls of the August Chamber. Present breed like Alan Peter Cayetano, Chiz Escudero, Merriam Defensor-Santiago make us stout hearted every time they cross examined their devious resource persons thinking at least taxpayers monies did not go to drain in paying the salaries and emoluments of these solons.
But
it saddened me to think how the hell Filipinos voted "simpletons" like Lito
Lapid, Abigail Binay, the father and son Revillas, Tito Sotto and now Manny
Pacquiao.
Here’s
Saguisag, in his letter to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, who reminded Pacquiao that a congressional post means serious work and should not be taken lightly.
He
added that if Pacquiao is serious about running for the Senate and even the
presidency, then he should retire immediately and do his homework.
''If
so, he should retire now from the 'Manly Art of Modified Murder on Instalment
Plan' and start studying,'' said Saguisag. ''We do not underrate his capacity
for subjective growth. He should read the Constitution now and confirm that he
cannot run for president until 2022, when he will have met the age
requirement.''
Saguisag
added that the fighting congressman should accept his limitations. He pointed
out that Pacquiao fared badly as a PBA playing coach.
