Women voters proudly display the new BinayPhone (photo credit: unknown)
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Vote-buying is not a new phenomenon in the Philippines, but this practice has definitely kept up with the times!
Gone are the days when political candidates hand out envelopes containing cash to encourage the masses to vote for them.
Free t-shirts and free take-out meals from Jollibee are still the norm, but a new vote-buying scheme has emerged: free smart phones.
Just ask the ‘Jejomar Binay for President’ campaign. It’s called the BinayPhone.
CEBU CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – A ranking Catholic bishop in the Philippines issued a challenge to gay men and women to aspire to be holy and to become saints.
The challenge was posed by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas during a convention on family and life by Catholic leaders in the country. Villegas is the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).
“That first thing we should call to mind is Jesus died for all. At the cross, there were only seven words attributed to Jesus, and at the cross, He did not ask ‘Are you a homosexual? If you are, I’m not dying for you. No. There was no such thing,” he said.
Asked by a reporter if philandering and corrupt public officials — which abound in the Philippines — could also become saints, Villegas answered:
“Well, that’s a different case altogether. These politicians who cheat on their wives and steal money from the people are committing a grave sin not only to themselves but to many people who suffer as a result of the misdeeds. And that would disqualify them from sainthood.”
Villegas urged corrupt politicians to repent, reform their lives and to return every single centavo that they stole from taxpayers. “That, he said, is the only way for them to become holy and qualify for sainthood.”
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – After weeks of speculation in the media and in political circles, Senator Chiz Escudero today officially declared that he was running for president of the Philippines in 2016.
Much of the speculation centered on Escudero and Senator Grace Poe. Poe currently leads in national polls on the people’s choice to succeed NoyNoy Aquino.
Many expected Escudero and Poe to run in tandem, although there was deep division among political analysts on who would run for president or vice president. Escudero also put that speculation to rest by announcing his vice presidential runningmate, and it is not Poe.
It is current Vice President Jejomar Binay!
Watch Escudero’s announcement in this campaign video titled, ‘Ang Bise Presidente Ko’ (My Vice President).
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