MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Oldtimers do believe that the elections this time around are the most “toxic” yet – to use Yorme’s vocabulary – and it may largely be due to the influence of social media. Seen in this light, anti-social would be more appropriate. If the air is no longer fresh...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza If the politically influential Iglesia ni Cristo have made and proclaimed their choices, perhaps it’s time you did. If you haven’t, the following names might help you decide. Liza. . . Dynee . . . Jinkee . . . Alice. Each a potential first lady. With Cory we did not...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza This is the second to the last weekend before D-Day, D for decision. For candidates, D is for deadline, eight days before voters get out the vote on Monday, May 9. In elections past, elections were held on a Tuesday, but what’s past is past. For one thing, elections...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Everyone’s a winner when you look at the size and enthusiasm of the crowds greeting, screaming their hearts out, hailing their candidates like victors ready to be crowned. The latest survey by Laylo researchers gives BBM-Sara’s Uniteam a formidable, unshakable lead...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza There are 10 million senior citizens, and if most of them are qualified voters – going by the age requirement, they are 100 percent eligible – do you suppose they’ll be voting as one for the one and only Senior Citizens Party-list? As it happens the SCP-list is just...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza That L, in my book, stands for Legendary, although the complete initials spell Luis C. Singson. Does anybody know Chavit Singson by his Christian or any other name or aliases? Local (and legendary) kingpin, a kingmaker even outside his beloved Ilocos Sur, a national and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Yes, the Constitution guarantees a free press, but being a human institution, there’s no escaping media bias even where none is intended. Still, for watchers of television news, radio listeners, newspaper readers, what fun to navigate election news and coverage of the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For the first time in political history (I think) three presidential candidates from three different parties came together to break bread with the press to reiterate their singular battlecry: “Come what may, we’re in this together!”; “ Tuloy ang laban !”; “...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza That’s how the twin senators in their look-alike outfits tailored for the rugged life of the campaign will package the work. An active, dynamic partnership. Counseling, consulting each other. Council of 2, cabinet, bureaucracy. Sen. Panfilo Lacson, presidential...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When LPA meets Malakas, destructive floods occur in places in the Visayas and Mindanao while Metro Manilans pray for rain. Rain is as utilitarian as it is romantic, but what a waste, when all that precious precipitation just goes down the drain. And yet, and yet, at...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Late in the last century, Sebastian Chua made a drastic business decision. He shut down what was at one time Asia’s largest paper factory. He didn’t explain the reasons, not to me anyway (his presses printed the countless editions of my book about mistresses), but it...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Do you believe in surveys? The bad news for lots of people of a certain persuasion is that the five leading pollsters – SWS, Pulse Asia, OCTA, Publicus, Laylo – have “harmony” (quoting one of their researchers) in that their results are agreeably and arguably the...
