Why I did not vote for Pichay, Cayetano, et al

Who did you vote for and why???

>> Can’t they wait for their relatives to
>> step down before running for the senate?

So what happened to voting for people based on their merit and track record in public service?

The Filipino voters have come of age. Intelligent,discerning.Here's proof:

1)Unlike in previous elections,comedians, celebrities,actors did not do well in the senatorial race.

2)They did not elect Garci, Pacquiao, Pineda, and the Lapids. Thank God!

3)They voted young,idealistic candidates to the Senate.

MAbuhay and Pilipinas.

Very true of all what you've said. What can they do if they will win? Only vengeance and creates conflict to the steady economy. If They will win I'm sure that they will create havoc to the administration coz of there personal interest and of course they will do what it takes to take down PGMA's administration. For the record its not true that GO candidate Cayetano, Legarda, Trillianes and other GO candidates are leading in in VISAYAS coz they are not. Specially Legarda whom she called Cebuanos are CHEATER in the last Election. No way GO wins in VISAYAS. No no no way......

On Loren:Whenever I see her, I see ambition written all over her face.

I totally agree!!!!

Then who did you vote for?? Buboy & Goma??? open your eyes people...dont be blinded by negative publicity, but instead FOCUS on their strengths and HELP them to help YOU.

although i voted for pichay and legarda, i could not help but agree with the observations!

Pichay is not a man of words.We both came from an educational instistution were he was conferred the doctor of humanities in our place in 2004.He promised to help finished the construction of the halfly finished halfly constructed college gymnasium.Three years have past and the gym is still unfinished.Pangarap niya talaga matupad ang mga pangarap niya.

1. Adrian Sison - Ang Kapatiran

2. Martin Bautista - Ang Kapatiran

3. Zosimo Paredes - Ang Kapatiran

4. Soniya Roco - because she advocates education

5. Chiz Escudero - maprinsipyo

6. Kiko Pangilinan - Liberal party, diyan ako sasali in the future

7. Noynoy Aquino - same as Kiko

8. Alan Peter Cayetano - anti-administration, maprinsipyo

9. Koko Pimentel - matalino, very able

I did not vote for Chavit because he is a known jueteng lord. The fact that he promotes himself as "boses ng probinsya" makes me worried that he may just monopolize jueteng operations in the provinces for his selfish interest.

Great blog bro, I am with you all the way on you comments; Pichay, Cayetano, et al".....

kaw na lang sana tumakbo. problema sa pinoy daming magagaling kaya walang asenso, pagalingan. tsk tsk!

We should all celebrate with the loss of Manny Pacquiao in the election. This means our boxing hero will continue to give 100% of time for his future fights!

I totally agree with you.. I didn't vote for any of them either for reasons same as yours..I hope many Filipinos shared the same perception

And what about Chavit Singson?

hi. I agree with you regarding the dynasty issues, that's also my reason not to vote Pimentel, Magsaysay and the ever talkative Cayetano (putak ng putak..grrr).
Your right, I think Legarda is so ambitious, I don't like her, too.
Trillanes is arrogant. Not a good influence. Why? others may think that leading a mutiny will make them popular and can gain votes if they will run for position in our government. And I think he runs because if he wins, he will have this what so called "Immunity" in his case. And thus he will be relieved of rebellion issued upon him.

hi. I agree with you regarding the dynasty issues, that's also my reason not to vote Pimentel, Magsaysay and the ever talkative Cayetano (putak ng putak..grrr).
Your right, I think Legarda is so ambitious, I don't like her, too.
Trillanes is arrogant. Not a good influence. Why? others may think that leading a mutiny will make them popular and can gain votes if they will run for position in our government. And I think he runs because if he wins, he will have this what so called "Immunity" in his case. And thus he will be relieved of rebellion issued upon him.
Just my 2 cents.

There's a couple of people amongst the GO that were good but turncoats when they realized that GMAs popularity was plunging down. They are disgusting and downright ugly people. anyways below are the people that i should never vote.

Cayetano - is just witch hunting no real achievement but bringing up issues and charges which can't be supported. Real waste of taxpayers money.

Defensor - is young and ambitious. Has talent but your mouth is working faster than your mind. Sayang ka Dong.

Sotto, Oreta - Bumalik na lang kayo kung saan kayo galing. Waste of time thinking what to write about you guys.

Escudero - I dont see the reason why you become popular baka may gayuma. But truth is everything you said is Blah blah blah blah blah. I hope the senate will not be renamed a blah blah blah senate when youre sitting there. Circus ang mangyayari. Blah.

re legarda, i didn't vote for her because even during college days, she was such a go-getter - ambisyosa talaga! she'd do everything to get what she wants. and, i can't believe that someone with integrity would do a switch-to-erap stance. she should just have run as an independent instead.

i didn't vote for chavit - he is scary! another gets-what-he-wants-at-all-costs guy. plus, it's jueteng that has enriched him!

no comment about the rest.

i just voted for joker arroyo and kiko pangilinan and the kapatiran candidates. rest of ballot was blank. i hope cheaters didn't use those blanks to fill in names.

This Cayetano, what will he do in the Senate? If he cannot even craft a bill to be made into law for 6 years he was in the House of Representatives, what do we expect he'll do in the 6 years when he becomes senator?

I am meeting persons from all economic strata and all of them save for one, were saying as regards Loren Legarda that they will not vote for her. The reasons were the same. The perception that she is an oppurtunist and too ambitious for comfort.

That's why I wonder why she topped the surveys and now the election results seem to verify the survey. Where are those or where could I find those who voted for Loren? I'm amused.

I wasn't able to vote because I covered the elections and did not apply for local absentee voting. But there are only three people who I wanted to vote for: Zubiri, Pangilinan, and Arroyo.

Chiz Escudero is good -- he is so good, he makes rubbish sound eloquent. Ugh.

My advice to Manny Pacquiao is not to distribute anymore the balato which he planned to give his district just after the Solis fight for reason that it will be an election offense, now that the election is over.

Magaling lang pala silang mamalato.

Nakakalungkot ang katotohanan na ang pulitika sa Pilipinas ay Pulitika ng Personalidad. Ano kaya kung sa susunod na eleksyon ng mga senador ang iboboto ng mga tao ay hindi ang mga personalidad kundi mga batas na gugustunin nilang maipatupad sa Pilipinas.

Ang ibig kong sabihin, Sa halip na ikampaya ng bawat Senador ang kaniyang sarili ang kanyang ikakampaya ay ang buong detalye ng mga batas na isususog niya sa Senado. Maaring magkaroon ng batas na magtatakda sa mga sa mga pahayagan na maglaan ng ilang isyu upang ilathala lahat ng panukala ng mga gustong maging Senador.

Sa araw ng eleksyon ang isusulat ng taumbayan ay ang mga pangalan ng batas na gugustuhin nilang maipatupad. Kung sino ngayon ay may-akda ng batas na may pinakmaraming tumangkilik ang dapat na umupong Senador.

Ngayon kapag sa panahon ng kanilang panunungkulan ay hindi natupad ang kahit isa sa mga batas na pinili ng taumbayan. Silang lahat ay dapat hatulan ng pinakamabigat na parusa (habambuhay na pagkakulong, pagkumpiska sa lahat ng kanilang ari-arian at ibalik sa taumbayan)

I voted for senators who can stand on what they believe. not those who would just go with the flow of the current leaders. They are there to represent us, to object and reject bad ideas and accept good ones. not just those ass licking lap dogs...
though I didnt vote for loren,but being ambitious is good. basta lang hindi tayo nakaka-apak sa iba.
dream big... coz at least even in fantasy we could do it... ;)

Ummm. Why I didn't vote for Pichay, Masarap yan sa linagang baboy! well pichay, can afford to spend that kind of money his rich. But, Of course after the election if he wins he just going to recover from his pork barrell. But if he lose its means that he just going to get the money somewhere else.

Cayetano, Et al. I think cayetano is good fiscalizer. I like to see him wins! I don't have anything against DYNASTY ISSUE. For as long as they can do their job they suppose too.

Sonia Roco: You suppose to vote for a candidates because of what they can do for the country not because you like them.

Loren: She cry when the envelope was'nt open during Erap, Impeachment trial. They should let the envelope to open so the whole truth will come out. Poor Erap, His still rotten in jail for the accusation that up to date they still don't have solid evidence against him for being corrupted.
As the record show he's not guilty of any wrong doing.

Capt. Trillanes: You didn't vote for him because you don't like him. Not because you believe what his fighting for: Yes, I agree with him when he said that if he wins it would be a SLAP FOR GLORIA PIDAL.

Yes, of course its your votes, its your choice. I agree! After all only in election time that rich's/poor's are aqual. Every votes are important.

Si Cayetano mukhang iyakin, pareho sila ni Escudero. Walang gagawin iyan sa Senado kundi magpuputak! Tama na ang isang babaeng Cayetano sa Senado.

Then who did you vote for yesyeso? We don't have any other choice. Not all of those you mentioned are bad.

I don't like Pichay either. The Magdalo mutiny is not enough act for Trillanes to aim a seat in the Senate. He needs to do more. Escudero, well we need a new face in the Senate. One whose mind is still uncorrupt or "less" corrupt. Legarda, not 100% ok but better than the other candidates of course.

Singson is never an alternative. Mike Defensor is all talk. Goma and Cesar, not again. No more actors in congress please! Zubiri? Have we forgotten the Fertilizer Fund? And what has he done for Mindanao. Lozano, he is for sale! Kiram, where did he come from? Oreta, I still can't forget the dance. A conduct unbecoming of a Senator.

In situations like these, the strategy is to vote for the lesser evils.

i'm so glad that people are finally seeing things differently! when i first found out that richard gomez and manny pacman are running for this year's election i had a feeling that people would vote for them mainly because they are popular not because they have a good back ground of the politics. but hey, now im seeing things differently, im glad that people are voting for those who can give out their best to make Philippines a better place!

you are right on.

I think Cayetano made that screeching FG "noise" - albeit with no evidence whatsoever - to keep his name on TV long enough for people to remember because of his plans to ran for the Senate. You're busted. I's choose Joselito Cayetano over you ANYTIME.

The same goes to Chiz E. I think Chiz' ambitions were well in place long before he started to become a mouthpiece for some pieces of sh** in Philippine politics. Sayang ka, Chiz. It is not that we are on different sides, but you could have had more credibility to the thinking segment of the populace had you just did what Kiko Pangilinan did - stand on his own when the two sides stink.

Loren. Loren. Loren. How do you solve a problem like Loren? She was once called a political prostitute - all in the name of the ambitions that is, yes ur right, written all over her.

Trillanes? go away. we do not want arrogant troublemakers in the Senate. we want people who think.

EPS, i agree with you, pero sana Filipinos should be wise enough to vote for those candidates whose main intention is to help us Pinoys to move on.

indeed the filipinos are now discerning voters. but we are not done yet. the lead of the GO in the NCR is very frustrating i hope the visayans and the mindanaons can turn the table. the GO will be just an obstruction to the country's growth. they promote disunity, "PLAN Co REVOLT" .....what kind of slogan is that! isn't that insighting rebellion! ....im sorry to say that everybody is corrupt or have the tendency to be. so no matter who we vote, corruption will always be there.

TU will support our leader GMA with her projects. im TU all the way especially KIRAM, at least this will bring our muslim bros closer and more responsive to our government. except for sotto, oreta, and montano.

“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose� - Khalil Gibran

Unconsciously we became too comfortable sitting in the laps hopelessness that we feel better thinking of worst case scenarios yet to come when we don't even know what a day brings forth. I say let's give the 12 winners a chance to prove our pessimisms wrong and work together for our beloved country to rise from the ashes.

How i wish all the winners of this election 2007 will served their country with honesty and integrity.. We want to be a new country with so much hope and peace.. Good luck for the candidates.. God knows who's the best persons to represent our nation and make our country a much better one.. Godbless

Voting is just a waste of time... politician wasted a lot of chances already.

a new political revolution will be the solution in this vicious cycle.

Amen

I don't think we should go for straight TU or straight GO. It should be a mix.

If it's 12-0 in favor of TU, that's bad for the country. There will be no check-and-balance and GMA will be all-powerful. It's true she cheated in the 2004 national election. And we shouldn't let that go. I already cannot stomach having a cheat as President, how much more having 12 more who would connive with her anytime.

If it's 12-0 in favor of GO, that's also bad. There will be no unity and we will see political mudslinging all our life with the Senate always opposing the president.

I hope for a mix win.

It would be good for Pichay if he will not win in this election so that he will have no chance of getting back his "investments" from the government at the expense of the Filipinos.

I just hope the lesser evil wins :)

hahaha... i voted for young and aggressive candidates.. for sure they can make a lot of difference in crafting laws for the betterment of our country.

i voted for kiko, joker, villar....

i voted for cayetano because he has the guts to face the wall... the Jose Pidal...

i voted for chiz because he is the one whom spearheading in opposing the railroading of the basic law of the land... against Pichay and Villafuerte...et al... a well know administration supporter... just to accomodate their self vested interest.... hahahaha

i voted for mike defensor... because he is from the visayas.. he was only force to defend GMA because he was in the cabinet.. but he is a good man.

i voted for trillanes... he is a soldier who fight enemy of the state..... at dahil sa mga corrupt na mga senior officers in uniform... kaya nagkaroon ng mutiny.....mga ordinaryong sundalo ang kawawa sa field... of which trillanes as a junior officer knows a lot... dahil na-assign sya sa giyera... naliligo sa umuulang bala... mas mabuti nga ang sumusunod sa chain of command kung may ginagawa ang nasa itaas... pero mas palagi kasing binubusalan ang katotohanan...and all of us are sad about it....

all in all i voted with my conscience....sino yung nararapat.

but i also regret to note na ilan pa rin sa ating kababayan ay ipinagbibili ang kanilang boto....ng 100, 150, to 1000 pesos per vote.......... kailan kaya tayo matuto..

Sa taga Comelec.... magtrabaho naman kayo pagkatapos ng election... sana sa 2010 ma-materialized na yung computerization ng election...

marami tayong mga young and talented IT's here in our country. for sure pwede silang i-tap... pwera na lang kung yung mga commissioner ay gusto pang magka kickbacks or magka-pera........kaya sorry tayo mga pinoy.... else palitan na lahat ng mga bad eggs sa comelec... siguro si chairman abalos..... oras na para magretiro.... kasi typical example... yung ginawa ni house speaker (devilnicia).... issuing issurance card sa mga tao.... (supporter kuno) .... tell it to the marines.... palusot lang yun... at nakalusot or pinalusot naman sa comelec.... hahhahhahahahahahaha.... so walang vote buying..... ano say nyo dito..... people talaga........

moreover i salute those teachers who sacrifice for the election........

see you on 2010 national election...... sana computerized na on that day ang election

TU, naku nakakasulasasok

I agree with what you have observed and written. I am one of those who have not voted, not because i don't care, but because i am making a statement. I was enraged at GO's propaganda blaming corruption and poverty in the current government or administration when they are also a part of it... aren't most of them currently occupying position in the government? aren't most of them reelectionist? and i am not equally satisfied at TU's choices of people to entrust governance of our country. Unless politician put respect in the office and position they are running, i will refuse to cast my vote. Meanwhile, i will stay in the mainstream of society, working with and for the poorest people...

to the winning senatorial candidates, please just keep in mind that you are there for the country and not for your own personal agenda.

Please, please, please...the filipinos are pleading. please do take your responsibilities seriously and honestly...for our beloved country. I hope you consider this country your beloved, too.

May God bless those who promotes the common good!

Cheers to our leaders!

i agree with you..voters are more intelligent now compared before. PPCRV needs help this coming 2010 election para turuan lalo ang ating mga botante kung sino ang kanilang iboboto lalo na dito sa mindanao. Iilang pamilya lang ang me hawak sa iisang lugar at kontrolado nila lahat mula sa ekonomiya, pulis, edukasyon at kalusugan ng taong bayan. Me gustong magtangka pero kinabukasan nawawala o kaya umaalis na lang para di madsgrasya...To PPCRC, we salute you...you are the real heroes during election....

Monday Lesson: Good question, When Gloria Arroyo, Kick Erap because she said she can do better to run the country. But look where we're today! The philippines is going under and you're all going with it.

Amen!
As a friend had written "Cayetano is a trapo in the making". But it looks like his "tactic" is working :) ... people remember his antics in front of the tv camera that's why he's winning.
I also believe Honasan & Trillanes are winning in Metro Manila only. I don't know why the Metro Manilans, esp. those in the media, idolize these kind of people.

Accept or Reject?

This election proved once again that when something is not favoring someone, a natural reaction would be to REJECT. And when something is on the aid of someone, he/she would instantly ACCEPT it.

Look at how those from Administration and Opposition react to the results of Pre-Election Surveys, Media Count, and Exit Polls. Obviously, Opposition candidates are leading the Senatorial race based on the initial unofficial election results. The Administration reacts by saying that counting is not done yet. COMELEC seems to be to the rescue of Team Unity because it threatened the TV Networks which will be cited for contempt if they continue with their quick counts. From the time the partial unofficial results were shown by the media, in which majority of Genuine Opposition candidates are in the "Magic 12", the opposition are more than glad to know of such result.

Why don't both camps exchange position and let us see if they'll be singing the same tune?

I believe and strongly suggest para mabago ang lahat we should ammend our government systems lalo na ang mga batas, I will agree on a parliamentary system para mabawasan ang mga naka upo or else mas maganda na siguro kung lulubog ang buong pilipinas sa dagat at aangat na lang ulit para mahugasan, "Total Reset" ang kailangan.
Peace

I think we need to have a public site wherein voting records of the SENATORS are published. This way we would be able to gauge how the new senators will fare. This has been the advocacy of Joker Arroyo, and I think this should made to reality. Not only for the Senators but also Congressmen. Look at Loren Legarda, she was against the opening of the Jose Velarde account, was against Erap, look at her now. We people need to know where the Senators stand in issues important. Senators should have integrity, with the voting records made public I bet we will see how the senators or congresmen flip-flop on issues. And then on 2010 we intelligently decide whether to vote for them again or not.

sana wala ng halalan. sayang ang pera ng bayan, perang ginagastos sa mga political ads, etc. wala namang kwenta ang mga nananalo.

Go, TU, hell.. wish ko lang...

I find Alllan Cayetano so vindictive. para siyang manok na malapit ng mangitlog. "Putak ng Putak". kahit saan, kahit kailan!!!!grrrr! Sabagay "POLITIKO" nga pala cya!