It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption and murder in Philippine politics.
“The mayor asked me today, ‘Why did you come here? Is it because of your love for the people of Bohol?’ That’s one of the reasons, ma’am...First, she said that she’s the mother of your municipality. Then she said that I am the father of the nation,” the President said in his speech.
“Actually I’m not trying to pull your leg. But the truth is ang balita ko if I may allow to say it in public and it will not offend you, you and your husband are separated,” he added.
“Can you run away with me? You have children, don’t you, mayor? How many children do you have? I have three, four. I have four but they’re all grown up already so I don’t have a problem there anymore,” he said.
Duterte added he visited Bohol to “play the game of love” as he quipped about asking former Special Assistant to the President Christopher “Bong” Go to take care of his wife while he was away.
“I just talk like that but I’m just joking. And you are truly beautiful,” he said.
“If it were me, why would I ever break up with you? I will really grab and hold on to your panty if you try to leave, even until the garter snaps. You’re just too beautiful.”
Duterte continued: “Ma’am is frowning already. She’s probably thinking, 'P— ina ka Duterte, if you don’t fulfill your promise, you better watch out or else I’ll have you assassinated by my police'.”
That is not flirty talk. That is just pure trash and Duterte has absolutely zero sense of decorum or manners.
Oclarit said the court issued a bench warrant against Calingin, who recently sentenced with a life imprisonment after being found guilty of 15 counts of graft by the Sandiganbayan over the anomalous housing project in 1996.
In March 22, the Sandiganbayan convicted Calingin of 15 counts for violating Section 3(e) of the anti-graft law, or causing injury to the government by giving unwarranted benefits to a party.
The case stemmed from the controversial Balay Ticala housing projects in 1995 and the anomalous reimbursements of more than P7 million under his name.
A case that has taken 23 years to get a judgement. Why didn't they take him into custody back in March?
THE Office of the Ombudsman has found a probable cause to file criminal complaints against Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia and two others in relation to the P49-million cash advances of fuel in 2008.
The decision dated September 26, 2018 was signed by Graft Investigator and Prosecutor Officer II Carl Vincent Sasuman and was approved by Ombudsman Samuel Martires on March 1, 2019.
The complainant was the Field Investigation Office, Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas and it was originally filed by Sara Esguerra, Othello Ramos and two others in 2009.
The copy of the resolution was distributed to the media Thursday, May 9, by mayoral candidate Jocelle Batapa-Sigue along with congressional candidate former congressman and former mayor Monico Puentevella and vice mayoral candidate Jude Thaddeus Sayson.
Batapa-Sigue said in a press conference Thursday, May 9, that the documents were sent to her by an anonymous sender.
For his part, City Legal Officer Joselito Bayatan said that as early as May 6, they heard some reports that Batapa-Segue will be calling for a press conference with Puentevella.
"Personally, I'm so excited because I thought that it will be a press conference of her platform of government because we've never heard or see her platform but, it turns out that she calls for a press conference to be a 'mongerer'," he said.
Bayatan pointed out that this is more of political desperate move of Batapa-Sigue, and she is just looking for issues.
He said they never take this case as an issue, adding that it is an order of the Ombudsman and it has a long way to go.
"He's a working mayor and for sure, the people had seen the merit of the mayor's performance. We don't worry about this case and we never even considered it as an issue. Ombudsman case is common to a performer," he said.
Ten years after a complaint was filed the Ombudsman finally decided to indict the Mayor for anomalous fuel purchases. The opposing candidate was sent these documents anonymously meaning that even the media was unaware of this indictment. Why did the indictment of a sitting mayor go unnoticed? But it doesn't matter anyway because the mayor's legal team, after calling the opposing candidate a "mongerer" for revealing the indictment which the whole city should know about, says this is a non-issue since voters will vote for him anyway and that the case has a long way to go. Since it's already taken a decade to get to this point I can't imagine how long it will take to get to a resolution.
“We are pursuing our investigation in case we see proof of an ouster plot … [but] as of now, we don’t see any strong evidence,” PNP spokesperson Col. Bernard Banac said at a press conference in Camp Crame on Friday.
Every single time.
San Fernando town mayoralty bet Ruben Feliciano yesterday clarified that the four “armed men” arrested for shooting it out with the authorities are not his goons. He classified them as his “supporters.”
He added that they are his supporters, but does not know them personally.
Not my goons just my supporters!
"So even in the matter of the elements of progress, ang Davao is in the forefront and only because we decided nga gisabot ko ninyo. Kay niadto pa man nang extrajudicial killing (that you have to understand me because extrajudicial killing has been going on for a long time)," Duterte said in his speech at the miting de avance of Hugpong ng Pagbabago-Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod in Davao City.
How many times does he have to admit to this before people actually believe him?
Near the end of his hourlong speech on Friday night’s grand rally of HnP candidates led by his daughter Mayor Sara Duterte, the President turned to the candidates and asked, “Walay ihatag nga P100 (We have no P100 to give)?”
The President’s remark was greeted by shrieks from the audience.
The President then turned to his former special aide Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, a senatorial candidate, who told him campaign laws prohibited it.
“Bawal (Against the law)? How would these people get home?” the President said.
He then explained that since the prohibition was “penal” and that candidates could be jailed if they violated it, the people should just say that they attended a meeting and had borrowed money for their fare to Almendras gym, the campaign rally’s venue.
“Tell them, if you don’t take the money, you will have to roam San Pedro [Street] offering yourself there [for sale], before you could go home,” he said, eliciting laughter from the full-house crowd of about 3,000.
Always funny to hear the President joke about violating campaign laws.
Four people from Barangay Cogon Ramos in Cebu City, including two Sanguniang Kabataan Councilors, were arrested by the police late night on Saturday on accusations of vote buying.
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña said that 15 to 20 “masked” personnel of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) picked up the two SK Councilors and the two others and took the prize and payroll money for a basketball tournament which they spearheaded in the barangay.
“2 SK Councilors and 2 other people in Cogon Ramos were arrested while playing in a basketball tournament. 15-20 masked SWAT with no nameplates arrived in full force, took the prize and payroll money and put it in an envelope labelled “VOTE BUYING,” said Osmeña’s FB post at 1 a.m. today, May 12.
That is pretty strange. Lot's of strange and violent election happenings going on in Cebu.
Former senator Heherson Alvarez yesterday withdrew his candidacy for congressman in the fourth district of Isabela, saying he could not continue participating in a “political sham” due to massive vote buying.
“I had hoped that this election would have been my last effort to render public service after several decades of cumulative experience. I am grateful for having been endorsed by our President as the standard bearer of our political party,” said Alvarez, who belongs to the ruling PDP-Laban.
“Unfortunately, the massive and overwhelming vote buying in my district and hometown makes this electoral process a sham. Vote buying is vote killing and is as destructive to our democracy as illegal drug is destructive to our physical well-being,” he said.
According to Eleazar, barangay officials were among the individuals arrested during police operations against vote-buying.
He also said that from the said tally, 8 were vote-buyers while 52 were vote-sellers.
What was alarming from the said operation, Eleazar said, was that the 60 individuals arrested for vote-buying came only from one barangay — Barangay Isidro.
Laguna police chief Col. Eleazar Matta, in a text message, identified the suspects as Melchor Sta. Ana, 61, and Miriam Octavio, 54, both residents of Barangay (village) Oogong.
He said police caught the suspects in the act of distributing P100 together with sample ballots with the names of reelectionist Laguna governor Ramil Hernandez and 13 other candidates for local positions, all under the Nacionalista Party.
But Hernandez, through his spokesperson Chris Sanji, distanced from the allegation. “It’s not in our camp’s style to buy votes,” Sanji said when sought for comment.
Candidates are buying votes for as low as P20 in some areas, the Commission on Elections said Sunday, expecting a surge in the illegal act as the May 13 midterm polls approached.
Police are "working hard to go after vote buying and vote selling", reports of which have been monitored in Cavite and Muntinlupa, said Comelec Education and Information director Frances Arabe.
"Mayroong P20, P50 na ina-attach [ang mga kandidato] sa kanilang flyers. It can go as high as P15,000," she told DZMM.
(Twenty peso, P50 bills are attached to their flyers. It can go as high as P15,000.)
No candidate, however, has ever been disqualified or removed from his post due to vote-buying because complainants often back out of legal proceedings, admitted the official.
"Maraming fina-file pero walang nahahatulan," Arabe said of vote-buying complaints.
(Many are filed, but no one has been convicted.)
During his morning briefing in Camp Crame, Albayalde said the PNP recorded 79 incidents of vote-buying involving 240 violators, of which 213 were arrested while 10 remain at-large
Vote buying a scourge that will never go away and does irreparable harm to the electoral process in the Philippines. It delegitimises the results of the election.
A police corporal was shot dead while on his way to inspect security preparations at polling precincts in Kapatagan town, Lanao del Norte Saturday afternoon.
Police report said Corporal Richard Garcia Gordiones, 31, was traversing along Barangay Panoloon, Sapad town on board his motorcycle at around 3:50 pm when two motorcycle-riding gunmen fired at him from behind.
Another policeman killed by motorcycle gunmen.
The Office of the Ombudsman filed only 52 cases against erring government officials in the first quarter of 2019, compared to 261 in the first quarter of last year, according to the Sandiganbayan.
The new figure represents an 80.46-percent decrease in cases filed in the antigraft court.
That appears to be good news but it could mean that officials have gotten more sneaky or people are unwilling to file cases.
The President said the diagram was supported by spectral voice analysis and recorded conversations of the people involved in the alleged plot.
“The matrix is true, the matrix is true, even Bikoy. You see, even the spectral analysis of their voice is true. Tordesillas is true, she is every inch a prostitute,” the President said, referring to journalist Ellen Tordesillas, whose picture appeared in the diagram.
Oooh spectral voice analysis? Well gosh that means it must be true!
“The [Department of Foreign Affairs] said there might be a slight delay because of certain documents. If it’s just a slight delay, the President is a reasonable man. What’s important is they would take back their waste,” Panelo told reporters when asked about the deadline.
Authorities were still in the process of documenting the trash shipments, he said.
As to how long the “slight delay” is, he said a reasonable delay would be one to three weeks.
“What’s important is that they would take it back, unlike in the past,” he said.
DFA Secretary Teddy Locsin said the trash would ship on the 15th of May not ifs or buts. Look like he is just another liar.
On Thursday, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said the Philippines has recalled its ambassador and consuls to Canada over the garbage row.
“That recall shows that we are very serious in asking them to get back their garbage. Otherwise, we’re gonna sever relations with them,” Panelo said in a Palace briefing.
“That order of the recall is to persuade them to make it fast. The more they delay, the more personnel will be coming back,” he added.
Well that was fast but this will only be bad for the 800,000 Pinoys in Canada.
Hey Duterte you pinoy retard. Panties do not have garters. Even a rapist asshole like you should know that, fucking moron.
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