Heto na naman si Kris Aquino

Tatlong linggong nakapahinga ang bayan kay Kris Aquino at heto na naman siya. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/video/entertainment/07/30/10/kris-aquino-arrives-vacation-tells-all#ooid=d0d3FsMTonP2nbNqnWZ8s7ImIYkZl6Gk Pagdating niya galing sa Amerika, nagsalita siya sa naka-abang na media at siyempre nagbigay ng exclusive interview sa kanyang BFF na si Boy Abunda. Nagpaliwanag siya sa mga tsismis tungkol sa kanya. Hindi raw totoong may affair siya sa mga batang [...]

July 31, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Politics, Showbusiness  27 Comments

Walang katotohanan ang Chiz-Kris tsismis

ā€œAbsolutely not true,ā€ sabi ng scriptwriter at director na si Bibeth Orteza ng aking tinanong sa text kung totoo ang tsismis na may romantic affair si Sen. Chiz Escudero at si Kris Aquino, ang artista at TV host na kapatid ni Pangulong Noynoy Aquino. Sabi ni Bibeth, ā€œHindi ko nga maintindihan kung bakit kumalat yan.ā€ [...]

July 11, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Abante  34 Comments

Batting for Chiz to fill a dangerous power vacuum

Raissa Robles, Philippine correspondent of the Hongkong-based South China Morning Post, has waged an online campaign to have Sen. Francis ā€œChizā€ Escudero elected as interim Senate president to be eligible to be the acting president in case there would be a failure of election in the May 10 polls. In her personal blog, Raissa said, [...]

April 9, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: 2010 elections, Malaya  44 Comments

An honorable act

Sorrsogon Rep. Salvador “Sonny” Escudero said when he talked with his senator-son Chiz the first hour of Tuesday, he (Chiz) was not yet decided on his political plans. As he was going out of the church yesterday morning, “6:47 a.m., to be exact”, he got a text from Chiz: “Tatay, I will not run.” Congressman [...]

November 25, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: 2010 elections  34 Comments

Chiz: I will not run in 2010 elections

Napagpasyahan ko, na hindi tumakbo bilang pangulo sa darating na halalan. Iā€™ve always said that for me, itā€™s the presidency but not at all cost. Not at the cost of losing my soul, not at the cost of losing myself, not at the cost by being eaten up by the system and the process and [...]

November 24, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: 2010 elections  44 Comments

Ano ang gagawin kay Gloria Arroyo?

The discussions in the previous post on this question of how the next president would handle Gloria Arroyo have been vibrant. However, I noticed that some quoted just a part of the answers which could be misleading. For my column for Abante I got all the answers of the four presidential aspirants: Senators Manny Villar, [...]

November 7, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: 2010 elections, Abante  66 Comments

Joining Chiz odyssey

(This is Lito Banayo’s last column for Malaya as he would be Sen. Chiz Escudero’s campaign manager in the latter’s presidential bid in the 2010 elections.) by Lito Banayo Malaya The surprise decision of Chiz Escudero to resign from the NPC was finalized in his mind and in his heart only on Tuesday morning, the [...]

November 4, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: 2010 elections  102 Comments

Escudero: ā€˜No angels, saints in politicsā€™ (Q&A)

Inquirer articles on Escudero: Escudero’s radical position caused split with NPC- Danding son No way: Legarda slams door on Escudero Sen. Francis ā€œChizā€ Escudero wants to be the countryā€™s youngest president. He seemed ready to join the 2010 presidential derby, but party politics got in the way and the much-anticipated declaration turned out to be [...]

October 31, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: 2010 elections, Vera Files  197 Comments

On his own

The decision of Sen. Francis ā€œChizā€ Escudero to bolt from the Nationalist People’s Coalition, the party that nurtured his political career the past 11 years, has introduced a new moral element in the campaign. It showed a young candidate, without the logistics – from family treasure chest or from business earnings or from government resources [...]

October 29, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: 2010 elections, Malaya  81 Comments

Chiz: dehadong kandidato

Bukas (Oct. 28) na raw ang deklarasyon ni Sen. Francis ā€œChizā€ Escudero para sa kanyang kandidatura para presidente. Dapat matuloy na itong kanyang deklarasyon dahil sa kanyang kaka-postpone, akala tuloy ng marami hindi na siya matutuloy. Lalo pa ang kanyang original political team na kinabibilangan ni dating senador Serge OsmeƱa, advertising executive na si Yolly [...]

October 26, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: 2010 elections, Abante  147 Comments