By Mortz C. Ortigoza
Before I delve on my
arguments why I will not vote for most of the reelective senators in the May
13, 2019 national election, please listen to the recent tell-all of former
senatorial wannabe Harry Roque, a former congressman, to GMA Super Radyo (DZBB
594) broadcaster Mike Enriquez who asked him the following questions.
QUESTION: Sinabi ninyo
na ang kandidato sa pagka senador ay dapat gumastos ng minimum na P500 million
at hindi ka pa siguradong mananalo doon?
ANSWER: Pag senador
useless ma mudmod ng pera hindi mo kakayanin iyan. Hindi mo kakayanin na mag
vote buy sa national scale dahil napakalaking pera. Ang gastos mo pag ikaw ang
tatakbong senador ads. Kaya sino ang nanga-nga-lampag sa survey iyong maaga pa
lang nag ads na iyong mga walang palya nandiyan iyong advertisement. So walang
pagkakaiba sa pagbebenta ng softdrinks sa pagbenta ng sino dapat maging
senators. Nakakasalalay po iyan sa ads.
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A: Ako nga po pruweba
ko kulelat ako ng tumigil ako. Pero ano ang nangyari noong nag ads ako sa TV na
doble ko iyong conversion votes ko in just one month. At predicted ko iyon na
every month pag ganito ang gagastusin ko I will gain six points at pag na
continue ko iyan over 90 days pasok pa ako pag dating ng 90th day.
Q: Halimbawa gumastos
nga kayo ng P500 milyon pero may mga negosyante na nag-aambag bilang parang
tinatayaan ang kandidato.
A: Alam mo sa totoo
lang nang araw na pupunta ako sa Commission on Election para mag withdraw
tatlong tycoons ang nag text sa akin na kunin mo na ang tulong namin
para sa iyo…
(That tycoons could be
some of the controlling owners of First Gen Corporation, JG Summit
Holdings, Inc., Jollibee Food Corporation, Manila Electric Cooperative,
Megaworld Corporation, DMCI Holding, Inc., SM Prime Holding, Inc., PLDT, Globe,
Aboitiz, San Miguel Corporation, and others – Author)
Q: Pera pera
pa rin.
A: Oo pera
pera pa rin. Pero iba ang style sa Senado. Sa local vote buying, sa
national ad spending.
Before I justify my
arguments why we should not vote those reelective senators where I will provide
their names at the bottom part of my column, the ads Roque mentioned are those
political advertisement national candidates buy at major TV
stations’ GMA-7 and ABS-CBN whose reach to the voters nationwide dwarf the
listeners of radio and readers of Facebook.
Here’s what former
Speaker Joe de Venecia told me that I quoted in my old column when I asked him
how much his son and namesake Joey spent on these giant boobtube networks when
the latter ran but failed to win the senatorial poll:
“When Senatorial
bet Joey de Venecia ran in the 2010 election, former Speaker Joe de Venecia
told me that Joey pays P200 to P300 thousand per 30 “seconder” advertisement at
either TV giant ABS-CBN or GMA-7. If my memory serves me right, Joey for the
few weeks dash, in his race to be included in the Top 12 of either Social
Weather Station or Pulse Asia polls, had been airing three to four ads a day to
get the attention of the voters around the country.
Hmmm? P250,000 multiplied by three times a day multiplied by 30 days equal a staggering of P22,5000, 000!”.
Hmmm? P250,000 multiplied by three times a day multiplied by 30 days equal a staggering of P22,5000, 000!”.
Yes Virginia, that’s
not thousands but P22.5 million or P45 million or P270 million for the
six months propaganda before the May 13 national derby for the two
mammoth networks or for a job that gives the official more than P100
thousand a month salary for six years stint.
That advertisement
price as based on the recent statement of Roque to Enrique was the same.
Let’s go, salamabit, to
the jugular.
Don’t vote for the
reelective senators especially those members of the Committee on the
Public Service.
These candidates have
in their hands the opportunity to save the most of the 105 million
Flips, er, Filipinos from the squalor of poverty but they seem to cohabit with
the lobby monies of big corporations.
The corporations interest
is to prolong their oligopoly in running their businesses
in the country without a threat of rivals from other countries that can give us
cheaper but better goods and services.
I cite here the slow
but expensive internet service to us by Manuel Pangilinan runs Philippine Long
Distance Telephone Inc. and Ayala founded Globe Telecom.
This Filipino 60
percent control of business equity versus the 40 percent for the foreigners
exacerbate our unemployment and underemployment problems.
We have 2.3
million unemployed, 7.5 million underemployed out 44.1 million laborers based
on the January 2018 data of the Philippines Statistics Office, and
2.3 million workers abroad (PSO 2017) who wanted to come back home if there are
available and good paying jobs in the country.
Look what open business
equity had brought to places Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and
Mainland China.
Foreign Direct Investment become a sparkplug of their dizzying growth.
Foreign Direct Investment become a sparkplug of their dizzying growth.
If Congressmen Gloria
Arroyo, Arthur Yap, Joey Sarte-Salceda, Jose Christopher Belmonte, and Manuel
Monsour Del Rosario combined their four bills for this economic magic bullet in
September 8, 2017 by amending for 100 percent ownership the utilities in the
Public Service Act like transportation, electricity, telecommunications,
mining, oil and gas, why not the senators could not do it?
Is it because of the
lobby monies, as what Harry Roque expose, that these tycoons give to these
senators who sold us in favor of their selfish ambition to win the May
2019 election?
Here are the names of
these senators who probably will no longer amend the PSA till the end of their
term in June 30 this year.
They are Senators Grace
Poe, Cynthia Villar, Sonny Angara, Nancy Binay, Koko Pimentel, JV Ejercito, and
Bam Aquino.
Their inaction will
make the new 18th Congress where the Houses of Representatives
and Senate go back to step one to pass again the amendment of the PSA.
What a waste of money
and saliva these congressmen had done before September 2017 where they
intricately hammer and spent countless precious time to the amendment of
this archaic law that contribute to our penury.
Here’s
Harry Roque again why big corporations bribe members of the Senate and the
House:
Q: Para saan ang perang
ito, saan nanggagaling at gumagastos sila ng ganitong halaga sa mga
kongresista?
A: Usually ang
naririnig ko diyan iyong buwis na makakasira sa isang kumpanya. Usually iyong
isang tax measure na gobyerno ang nagsusulong o may isang vested interest
either sa itaas para mamatay iyong kalaban nila or ibaba para paburan iyong
isang korporasyon sa buwis. Pangalawa, prankisa dahil siyempre….
That “prankisa” is the
franchises that I cited as utilities in the Public Service Act.
They are the franchises
that should be amended but the present senators will not touch because of the
billions of pesos question.
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