Imam lifts ‘fatwa’ on Escudero
By Cathy Yamsuan
A Muslim religious leader in Marawi City has withdrawn the “fatwa” he issued against Sen. Chiz Escudero after the reelectionist senator gave an assurance that he is not “anti-Muslim.”
A Muslim religious leader in Marawi City has withdrawn the “fatwa” he issued against Sen. Chiz Escudero after the reelectionist senator gave an assurance that he is not “anti-Muslim.”
Who’s afraid of Kris Aquino? A senatorial candidate of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) on Saturday belittled the impact President Benigno Aquino III’s younger sister might have on the Team PNoy ticket at this stage of the campaign.
Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, this city’s longtime chief executive who is known for his tough brand of law enforcement, on Thursday night asked voters to make sure reelectionist Sen. Francis Escudero tops the senatorial race.
Who can crush the Binays in their home turf? Not presidential sister Kris Aquino, or so she believes, as she has announced her plans to run for public office in 2016 not in Makati, where she has long been a resident, but in her home province of Tarlac.
Kris Aquino, Team PNoy, 2013 elections, Chiz Escudero, Grace Poe
The Ad Standards Council (ASC) has recalled the clearance for the airing of an EQ diaper TV commercial which is a spoof on the Battle of Mactan.
For the first time since the campaign began, political neophyte Nancy Binay, one of the biggest buyers of prime time TV ads, has broken into the third to fourth spot of the senatorial race, according to a survey conducted by Social Weather Stations on April 13-15.
Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero shrugged off a text message being circulated linking him to rice smuggling in the country, saying he would not lose sleep over it.
The Supreme Court has been accused by an administration senator of being “jealous” of the powers of Congress and “playing politics” when it upheld its earlier decision that Congress should only have one representative at the Judicial and Bar Council.
He has been reluctantly thrust into the show biz limelight owing to an affair of the heart. But with just a month left before the midterm polls, Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero is hoping to train the electorate’s eyes back to the affairs of the state—a turf where he hopes to remain in the next six years and even beyond.
I am never one to rejoice at another man’s predicament—given my strong belief in karma or whatever you wish upon another comes back to you—but Sen. Chiz Escudero deserves the plunge in his ratings in the latest survey.
The Kris Aqunio/James Yap and Chiz Escudero/Heart brawls triggered a blogging frenzy. “There are more pressing concerns,” former senator Richard Gordon protested. These range from Filipinos squeezed in the Sabah controversy to a severely strained school system. “Let’s keep our focus on issues that matter.”
I arrived yesterday (Thursday) from a monthlong business trip to several cities in Europe and was flabbergasted to read Mr. Ramon Tulfo’s column in which he made totally untrue statements about me. Why anyone would drag my name into such a silly affair will always be a mystery to me.
