Dumb, dumber

In an effort to redeem herself of her stupidity, Karen Davila has made Election Automation as her subject in her “Correspondents” edition on ABS-CBN last night (16 February 2010). Here she deftly interviewed various personalities on their experience on voting, inspecting, heckling and anything and everything to do with the coming automated polls.

And again she showed that she just another pretty face.

She just laps up the script, obviously put together or her. It shows so many flaws of her understanding of the voting, counting and canvassing system and processes.

Ganito kami sa Makati

Jojo Binay struts around the country declaring his Makati City leadership has led to fantastic services for his constituents and would like to replicate it for the rest of the country should the people vote for him as Vice President in the elections this May.

If Jojo is given the office to do what he claims he will do, then Filipinos will also give him the personal money making rackets he has run in his city the past 20 years, this time on a national scale. WOW!

Check this out: just one of the benefits Jojo’s Makati gives to its residents is birthday cakes for senior citizens. The city’s Lolos and Lolas just love it, and so does the Binay household which actually supplies the cakes. So the city government supplies the cakes – simple cakes, the price of which is set by the cake-giving program to the tune of P60 million per year!

Giba

Mark Salanga of ABS-CBN News Bacolod today reports: “The wife of business tycoon Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr. said they are dismayed with their nephew, Lakas-Kampi-CMD standard bearer Gilberto ‘Gibo’ Teodoro Jr..

“Gretchen Cojuangco said that her husband Danding, who is chairman emeritus of the Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC), would support a candidate, but not Teodoro.
“Teodoro was formerly a member of the NPC, but switched to the administration party where he became its standard bearer.
“Mrs. Cojuangco made the statement in an interview during a visit to the University of St. La Salle in Bacolod City on Saturday.
“ ‘Anybody but Gibo. Anybody,’ she told reporters, after being asked who her husband would support between Teodoro and their other nephew, Liberal Party standard bearer Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III.

Bridging The Gap

Manny Villar projects himself as a poor boy who, with hard work and industriousness, became one of the richest men in the country. What he has not touched is how he filled the capital gap between his poor start and his dreams. That’s where his missus, Las Pinas congresswoman Cynthia Villar comes in.

It’s known all over that she is the moneyed one (her side of the family, anyway). And this is what provided the much needed moolah to make those dreams come true. (But I wouldn’t go to the extent that others suggest – that marrying her took a lot of Sipag at Tiyaga)

And at a certain point in the building up of wealth, it becomes important that you have a measure of political power. The formula: money begets power and power begets money.