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Government, Politics

AQUINO ASKS ELECTIONS COMMISSION FOR SPECIAL ELECTION TO REPLACE PHILIPPINES VICE PRESIDENT BINAY

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Aquino, left, and Binay
Aquino, left, and Binay

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles ® ) – Shortly after Philippines Vice President Jejomar Binay tendered his resignation, President Aquino asked the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to call for a special election to fill the vacated position, with about a year remaining in the term.

Binay sent a letter to Aquino informing him of his irrevocable resignation.

Aquino and Binay, who are from different political parties, have been at odds with each other from the very start of their six-year terms.

Binay’ s resignation letter was a mere one sentence. image

Aquino failed to notice that Binay’s resignation was for his Cabinet position, not his elective position as vice president.

Unfortunately, Aquino’s request with the elections commission was also irrevocable, so the special elections will proceed.

LGBT, Politics

OBAMA HECKLER AT WHITE HOUSE LGBT EVENT ASKED TO PAY FOR CONSUMED FOOD AND BOOZE

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles®) – As Barack Obama was speaking at a White House event honoring LGBT Pride Month on Wednesday, a heckler started yelling at the President.

The heckler was later identified as Jennicet Gutiérrez, an undocumented transgender immigrant who was protesting deportations under the Obama administration. An immigration group claimed Gutiérrez was a founding member of Familia TQLM which advocates for LGBT immigrants who the group said are often excluded in the immigration debate.

Obama responded, “Listen, you’re in my house … it’s not respectful.”

The protester persisted and the president asked for the heckler to be removed from the East Room.

“As a general rule, I am just fine with a few hecklers,” Obama said. “But not when I am up in the house. My attitude is if you’re eating the hors d’oeuvres, you know what I’m saying? And drinking the booze? I know that’s right.”

The Adobo Chronicles® learned that the heckler was not cited nor charged, but was asked to pay the bill for the hors d’oeuvres and booze consumed as an invited White House guest.

You don’t bite the hand that feeds you. You just don’t!

Politics

BREAKING: VP BINAY WITHDRAWS FROM PHILIPPINES’ PRESIDENTIAL RACE

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Poe, left, and Binay
Poe, left, and Binay

MAKATI CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles®) – In a move that shocked both his critics and supporters, Vice President Jejomar Binay today announced that he was withdrawing from the 2016 Philippine presidential race.

Until recently, Binay was the only declared candidate to succeed President NoyNoy Aquino whose six-year-term expires in 2016. The vice president had consistently held the lead in all polls among all likely presidential candidates. Until this week.

The most recent polls now show that Senator Grace Poe has overtaken Binay’s lead.

Embarrassed that a woman and neophyte in politics has displaced him from the lead, Binay said that he is no longer interested in becoming president.  Instead, he announced that he would be seeking reelection as mayor of Makati City when the current term of his son, JunJun, expires.

“It would be a great honor on my part to once again become the chief executive of the richest city in the country. I know I can easily win a reelection because my family has practically established itself as the unbeatable political dynasty in Makati.”

The vice president is a former mayor of Makati and so was his wife, Elenita.

Critics, however, are speculating that once he becomes mayor again, he will secede from the Philippines and declare Makati as an independent Republic.

Talk about not just ‘wall street ‘ but ‘walled country.’