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Nasaan na si Joselito?

Published by Ellen on May 16, 2007

Joselito Cayetano replies to Alan Cayetano.

Sa Halalan 2007 ng ABS-CBN, hinanap ni Julius Babao si Joselito Cayetano, ang paboritong kandidato ng Comelec, lalo pa ni Chairman Benjamin Abalos.

Sabi ni Julius, “Dapat pumunta rito si Joselito para malaman kung gusto ba niya mag-appeal sa Supreme Court.”

Dapat talaga magpakita si Joselito, isang trabahador sa pier sa Davao, para masiguro naman natin na walang nangyari sa kanyang masama. At para na rin mapanatag ang loob ng nanay niya kasi matagal na siyang hinahanap ng kanyang ina mula ng umalis siya doon sa kanilang bahay sa Davao para maghanap ng trabaho sa Manila.

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Disturbing developments

Published by Ellen on May 16, 2007

Is the Comelec trying to instigate a revolution?

Comelec halts media tallies

The Commission on Elections yesterday ordered media outfits to stop their quick count operations or they will be charged with violating elections laws.

GMA Channel 7 and ABS-CBN Channel 2 started conducting separate quick count operations as early as Monday evening or several hours after the polls closed. But they ended their count the next day.

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The day after

Published by Ellen on May 15, 2007

Tuesday, 2.pm. Pulse Asia/ABS-CBN exit poll for the Metro Manila showed detained Antonio Trillanes is in number 7.

Gloria Arroyo’s chief presidential legal adviser. Sergio “Mr. Wetness” Apostol: “Once the votes from Visayas and Mindanao come in, malalaglag din siya sa Magic 12,” Apostol said.

Five hours after, 7 p.m., Pulse Asia/ABS-CBN released the nationwide exit poll. Trillanes is no. 9.

“Mr. Wetness” Apostol is no longer available for comment.

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Nationwide exit poll:6-4-2

Published by Ellen on May 15, 2007

Six Genuine Opposition candidates, four Team Unity bets and two independents are poised to win the top 12 slots in the Senate race, results of the 2007 ABS-CBN/Pulse Asia nationwide exit poll revealed Tuesday.

1. Legarda
2. Escudero
3. Villar
4. Lacson
5. Pangilinan
6. Aquino
7. Angara
8. Arroyo
9. Trillanes
10. Zubiri
11. Honasan
12. Recto

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Post-election statement of Kapatiran’s Martin Bautista

Published by Ellen on May 15, 2007

The election is over. It is time to examine, and to both skeptics and sympathizers alike, explain my participation in it.

I gave up a flourishing medical practice in America, joined Kapatiran and ran for the Senate because I wanted not merely to prove a point, but to live by it.

And the point is this: we can change our country, help our people, not by talking or theorizing but by actually doing something about it. One cannot simply make a statement. He must apply it in his life, by example, by involvement, by action. Our political campaign was such a statement.

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Ano na ngayon?

Published by Ellen on May 14, 2007

Sinusulat ko ang kolum na ito, kakaboto ko lang. Maayos naman.

Ngunit marami akong natatanggap na report ng violations katulad na lamang ng mga watchers at supporters ng Team Unity na namimigay ng mga sample ballot sa loob ng presinto.

Sabi ni Comelec Chairman Bejmain Abalos normal lang daw na may confusion dahil marami naman talaga ang hindi kabisado ang batas.

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With early 8-2-2 count, massive cheating feared

Published by Ellen on May 14, 2007

by Dennis Gadil
Malaya

The Genuine Opposition Opposition, despite an early 8-2-2 lead in the senatorial race, last night shifted its focus to Visayas and Mindanao on reports that administration cheating operators were set to unload at least five million filled-up ballots during municipal, district and provincial canvassing.

Sen. Serge Osmeña III, GO campaign manager, said the opposition had been prepared to concede 600,000 to 1 million “dagdag bawas” votes, primarily in the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao, but was not expecting cheating on the reported massive scale.

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Perfecting a crime

Published by Ellen on May 13, 2007

If Gloria Arroyo had some shred of conscience left in her, she should have learned from her stealing of the 2004 elections that no crime will remain hidden forever.

But Arroyo and her cohorts are a rare breed. They are using the lessons learned from the 2004 elections to perfect a more vicious crime against the Filipino people.

Luz Rimban, formerly with the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and who now teaches broadcast journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University, took note that today’s election is the third under Arroyo’s presidency. The first was the mid-term election in 2001, the second was the presidential election in 2004.

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