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A day in the life of Dick Gordon

A day in the life… of Dick Gordon
By Michael Punongbayan (The Philippine Star) Updated March 09, 2010 12:00 AM
MANILA, Philippines – Bagumbayan presidential candidate Sen. Richard Gordon describes himself as being “comfortable with stress,” getting by with only four hours of sleep.
He usually wakes up before his wife Kate at 6:30 a.m., but lingers in [...]

Juan Ponce Enrile confirms Villar’s bribe try on Gordon

Senator Juan Ponce Enrile to Senator Manny Villar: THE PRESIDENCY, THE FILIPINO PEOPLE, THE PHILIPPINES ARE NOT FOR SALE
Sen. Villar may have succeeded to a large extent in deploying the huge fortune he acquired, perhaps some by honest means, but definitely, a large part, by the immoral use of his political position, power and clout to advance his own business interests as borne out by the evidence in Senate Ethics case and, much earlier, by the shenanigans exposed on the Floor of the Lower House by Sen. Joker Arroyo,

But on May 10, he must be taught a hard and painful lesson by no less than the electorate. He must be unmasked and rejected as a fake leader in order for the nation to redeem itself. We must clearly send the strongest message to Senator Manuel “Manny” B. Villar, as Senator Richard J. Gordon has said, that THE PRESIDENCY OF THIS NATION, THE FILIPINO PEOPLE, AND THE PHILIPPINES ARE NOT FOR SALE.

Gordon also offered money to back out from 2010 polls

All though, being a laggard in a number of surveys, bribing Gordon to back out of the 2010 Presidential polls doesn’t seem to present an advantage to Villar.

Success of automated elections crucial to economy in 2010

Certainly, the hoards of middlemen and brokers of industry of “winning at all costs” certainly don’t want automated elections to succeed because there is no way to manipulate the results. You can manipulate the voters, for sure, but that would be a costlier enterprise than just waiting for the ballots to arrive at the canvassing centers and doing their magic in the comfort of a hotel. Money won’t change hands for an assured win at the polls, or at least, not as much.

Presidential Election Issues: Fixing public education

Noynoy Aquino, Manny Villar, Dick Gordon, and Gibo Teodoro have already emphasized that improving the public education system is on top of their agenda and it will be a good exercise to scrutinize what these candidates have said about what they intend to do for public education thus far.