Monthly Archives: October 2018

Finance, Government, Social Media

House Of Representatives Cuts PCOO Budget By P5 Million

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2B17C053-DFA1-4B9F-8987-0061E53B988F.jpegMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The House of Representatives today cut the 2019 budget of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) by P5 Million.

The announcement came just hours after Asec Mocha Uson announced her resignation from PCOO.

The hearing  on the proposed P1.4 Billion PCOO budget for 2019 was deferred in the House twice due to the absence of Uson.

Uson filed her resignation letter on September 28, citing the stalling of the budget of the Presidential Communications Operations Office at the House of Representatives as the reason.

“Recent events have put me in a position where I am being held responsible for Congress withholding the 2019 PCOO budget,” her resignation letter addressed to President Rodrigo Duterte read.

Sources at the House of Representatives told The Adobo Chronicles that PCOO could no longer justify its proposed 2019 budget now that Uson has resigned.

The Congressmen were insistent that they could not grant such a huge budget for an underperforming agency like the PCOO.

Asked how the Congressmen came up with the P5 Million figure for the budget cut, our sources said that the figure represents Uson’s 5 Million followers.

 

Government, Politics, Social Media

2019 Philippine Elections: New, All-Women Party List Is Born

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3389F49D-2D76-43E1-A7E9-795785C1154A.jpegMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – When the period for the filing of Certificates of Candidacy (COC) for the 2019 Elections opens on October 11, 2018, Filipino voters will see the birth of a new, all-women Party List: Bloggers United.

It may be a Party List, but it’s non-partisan.  Its founding members come from both camps, pro- and anti-Duterte.  And they’re all influencial bloggers in their own right and in their own minds.

The members are:  Mocha Uson, who just resigned her post as PCOO Asec; Maria Ressa, whose future with her firm Rappler is uncertain because of the SEC ruiling; Jover Laurio, who remains to be Jover Laurio; Raissa Robles who’s about to go bankrupt because her Marcos Martial Law book is not selling; and Sass Rogando Sasot, who is so homesick she wants to come home permanently from The Netherlands.

All are filing their COC’s on October 11, and they have made a blood compact that whomever is chosen to be their Party List’s representative in the House of Representatives will be honored by them.

The group’s campaign meme will be “Best Friends Forever: Blogging Knows No Color. One for All, All for One”

Now, that’s a Party List and campaign meme to beat.  Be afraid.  Be very afraid!

Entertainment, Government, Politics

Kris Aquino: ‘Friends Na Kami Ni Mocha Uson’

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4171DDCD-05CE-4199-9C5B-EC6C1A97D2AF.jpegMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Who can forget Kris Aquino’s tantrums after then Asec Mocha Uson posted a video of her father, the late Ninoy, being kissed by two women?

Kris immediately protested Uson’s Facebook post and contacted Malacañang, which in turn said that Uson will apologize to the Queen of All Media.

Kris then announced during a radio interview afterwards: “Friends na kami ni PRRD. As for her (referring to Mocha), I don’t care.”

Now that Uson has tendered her resignation as Asec, Kris told The Adobo Chronicles: ‘Friends na kami ni Mocha.’

All’s well that ends well.