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“Sa mga batang Maynila, sasakabilang ilog lang naman ako. Magkikita pa rin tayo.” With that, Isko Moreno Domagoso declared he will be running in the May 2022 election for President. Excellent production values for a launch. Excellent camera positioning and shot selection complete with a camera drone flying overhead. In his speech, Isko took potshots…
Today Isko Moreno Domagoso will make the formal announcement of his candidacy for President with Willy Ong as his running mate. It might as well have been made last night as it was all over social media by late afternoon. Many wondered at the choice of his running mate. For pundits like myself, it meant…
While the public was engrossed with the ongoing feud between President Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Dick Gordon, the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee Chair, who is investigating the questionable purchases of personal protective equipment (PPEs) and face masks by the Department of Budget Management (DBM) Procurement Service for the Department of Health (DOH), the Nationalist People’s…
Here goes former Undersecretary and Inquirer columnist Manuel L. Quezon III (MLQ3) again with his Duterte doomsday scenarios. In his piece “Winter is coming” today, MLQ3 writes of his obsession with speculation around “how close, exactly, the President and the Marcoses are”. Deep inside he would like nothing better than for President Rodrigo Duterte to…
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Manila Mayor Isko Moreno is back from a Covid-induced hiatus. I don’t think it was really Covid but more of a tactical retreat after having been the subject of a full-frontal attack by no less than the President himself. If you believe his campaign manager Lito Banayo, he gained political points for that. Unfortunately, we…
Leave it to the desperate traditional Opposition to still be hopeful of a sudden change in fortunes at this late a stage in the lead up to the 2022 national elections. In a post on Facebook, former Undersecretary Manuel L Quezon III (MLQ3) thinks he’s smelling blood much like a shark does going after its…
The Chief Political Analyst gets all worked up in his Manila Times piece today “Moreno’s past and Duterte’s present”. Antonio Contreras writes about how President Rodrigo Duterte “demeaned and diminished” Manila Mayor Isko Moreno by referring to his past as a sex movie starlet and his posing in provocative photos dressed only in his underwear….
Harry Roque’s former law partner Joel Ruiz Butuyan posts a want ad for the opposition in his Inquirer piece “Wanted: An opposition coalition”. A “coalition” he says. For the opposition to get us out of the black hole the current administration has brought the country into, it needs all hands on deck. That means all…