voting frenzy II

This is an updated shortlist of senatorial candidates I will vote on may 14:

Sonia Roco: see previous article

Migz Zubiri: see previous article

Manny Villar: he maintained the independence of the senate when he assumed the senate presidency. And I am still elated when I remember how he railroaded the transmittal of the articles of impeachment from the house of representatives to the senate last 2000. and finally, I think I cannot stomach a de castro presidency on 2010 so I might as well vote for the most qualified to run on 2010.

Jamalul Kiram: I am a Mindanaoan, though I did not grow there. My roots are still in Mindanao and, though the town where I came from is Christian town, I still know the Bangsa Moro’s plight. The Bangs Moro people need representation in the senate because though they are also Filipinos, they culture is relatively different from that our Christians. I subscribe to the classical theory on law that laws are based on the morality of law (see related article) and to effectively legislate for the Bangsa Moro people a Bangsa Moro representative should be elected in the senate.

Joker Arroyo: the job of a legislator is not confined only in making bills, a legislator should also know when to oppose a bill he and his constituents deem to be unbeneficial to the people. The senate should have someone who will provide an effective check and balance in the performance of they senators’ duties.

Zossimo Paredes: after observing closely the Ang Kapatiran party, I conclude that the party has effectively reconciled the politics of pragmatism with that of the ideal politics. I have reasons to believe that he runs his campaign based on issues and platforms and not on name recall.

Those who will join those who I will not vote:

Koko Pimentel: talk is cheap. I have reasons to believe that he has nothing but a bad mouth against team unity and offers no better alternative. I remember he once commented that team unity employs celebrity to win the elections when team unity substituted cesar montano for jerico petilla. Then why am I seeing him beside angel locsin on tv?!!!!!!

Allan Peter Cayetano: you are so talkative

Antonio Trillanes: as much I want him to be in the senate, I realized that as long as he is behind bars he can never, in any way, perform the functions of a senator. He must be present on the floor to vote for the approval of a bill, he must be on the floor to defend the bills he will author, he must be on the floor to provide a control in the senate. But he cannot because he is behind bars for charges of rebellion. And he cannot effectively ask the court to allow him to attend senate hearings if ever elected because the SC has established a jurisprudence, through the case of Jalosjos vs. Court of Appeals, that will deny such petition on the grounds of unconstitutionality for violating the equal protection of the laws clause of section 1 of article 3 of the 1987 constitution.