Even P-Noy is guilty of premature campaigning

By Al S. Mendoza

THIS talk about premature campaigning is all gobbledygook.

Don’t ever believe anything.  Everything is hearsay.

Look, many candidates for senators themselves had placed radio, TV and newspaper ads even before the official blasts of campaigning could even begin.

One senatorial bet even had long set up tarpaulins along Edsa endorsing a medical supplement that allegedly makes you strong, physically or otherwise.

Worst, that’s all boladas, of course.

As the usual punch line of every power-enhancing pill that is being liberally advertised goes, “No approved therapeutic claims.”

Really, an openly advertised medicine has no approved therapeutic value as per scrutiny by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?

Only in this country, indeed.

But, anyway, know that candidate peddling the pill packed with power?

Chiz Escudero.  He left the NPC (Nationalist People’s Coalition) in 2009 because he said that by being a non-aligned politician, “I could think more freely as an independent politician.”

But who was he fooling?

Did he not leave NPC because Danding Cojuangco, the NPC boss, did not allow him to run for President in 2010?

And how can Chiz be independent when he campaigned for Jojo Binay for vice president in 2010?

And if you haven’t noticed it yet, isn’t he in the chosen ticket of President Aquino – P-Noy being the guy he would have battled in 2010 had Boss Danding approved of his candidacy?

If Chiz were true to his word, why did he not run as an independent for the May 2013 senatorial polls?

And, yes, look at this:  Chiz, like Loren Legarda and Grace Poe, are also in the ticket of UNA (United Nationalist Alliance) being backstopped by Binay, Erap and Manong Johnny Enrile.

Independent and you have two tickets backing you up?

Not raising even a whimper when he was adopted as an UNA guest candidate?

Who is he fooling?

Chiz doesn’t only break his word but also the law—or so many think.

How come he has already come up with ads and, as guilty, too, of premature campaigning are the likes of Loren, Grace, Alan Peter Cayetano, Dick Gordon, Migs Zubiri and Sonny Angara.

Listen to Angara:  “Yes, there is a law on that, but there is no enabling provision on how to implement it.”

Senators make laws.  Senators break laws, too.

Only in this country, indeed.

Oops, wait, a minute.

Isn’t the President of the Republic also being rapped for premature campaigning?

You are blind as a bat if you haven’t seen him on radio and TV endorsing the entire Liberal Party senatorial ticket.

And the official start of campaigning is on Tuesday, February 12.

Only in the Philippines, indeed.

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