By Mortz C. Ortigoza
I'm watching both
GMA-7 and ABS-CBN evening prime time news.
I saw Sara Duterte endorsing the Senatorial bid of Harry
Roque.
Roque has become aggressive lately with his multi-million pesos 30 seconds TV ads that cost more or less P500, 000 per 30 seconds.
When I consulted the latest March 9-14 polls of Publicus
Asia, it showed Roque - the pet peeve of many Filipinos because of his
eccentric principles - catapulted from the cellar (No. 30 several months ago)
to No. 13.
One hard pushed and he will be in the Magic 12 almost two
months before the May 9 election.
I suspected Roque's patron President Rodrigo Duterte
"bankrolled" his foray in the Senate race -- just like what he did to
senatorial bets Bato dela Rosa and Bong Go in the 2019 election.
I've been telling all and sundry that those who can afford
the hundreds of millions of pesos of ads on TV win the elusive Senate seat.
Alan Peter Cayetano, Win Gatchalian, Mark Villar, and Joel
Villanueva soar in the Top 10 by spending P1 billion each on ads since they patronize
the magic of boob tubes middle of last year.
Damn, a billion of pesos to a post that gives P300, 000 a
month or P23.4 million as salary in a six years term.
