Detained Senator Antonio Trillanes’ Magdalo party was all set to endorse Senator Chiz Escudero as their President of choice a few months ago. Wednesday morning the Magdalo group revealed their new Presidential candidate: Senator Manny Villar of the Nacionalista Party. For Vice-President though they didn’t opt to push for Senator Loren Legarda, instead they went for Liberal Party’s Senator Mar Roxas. This made me think about a possible Villar-Roxas scenario in 2010. Those two guys hate each other’s guts. I wonder what will happen if they end up as partners in steering this...

A lot of people have been asking me if I have plans of running for office anytime in the near future. I’ve been thinking about this for the longest time now and after a lot of prayer, thinking, and consulting, I think I finally have an answer! The past few weeks have been filled with so much revelations and I finally pieced them all together this yesterday during the 6th year death anniversary of my late grandfather. My auntie, Susan Ople, gave a passionate speech during her declaration about why she finally decided to run for senate in the upcoming elections. She talked about what some people...

Endorsed by more than twenty labor and OFW groups, Susan “Toots” Ople, the youngest daughter of the late Senator and Statesman Blas F. Ople, declared her bid for a seat in the Senate in the upcoming 2010 elections. It wasn’t your usual declaration press conference because it actually looked more like a labor forum. Prior to her declaration, various figures in the local and migrant worker industries took to the stage and gave speeches on the current situation of the Philippine labor force. This is personal for me since she’s actually my auntie and we’ve worked together...

In a blogger session with Senator Chiz Escudero, he shared with us his planned original endorsed line-up for the Senate with his former party, the NPC. He still supports these candidates even though he’s left the party already. One of the names that came up was my auntie’s, Susan “Toots” Ople. Others that he mentioned were Tourism Secretary Ace Durano, Cong. TG Guingona, Bongbong Plaza, and General Danny Lim. Here’s the video. Sorry for the poor quality, I took this with my BlackBerry phone camera and I forgot to take out the plastic case which kinda covered the audio...

If there’s one thing I noticed, it’s that almost all the politicians these days are saying that they’re the allies of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). This is mainly because there are 10,000,000 OFWs and they have the power to influence the votes of their families back home. If there’s one figure that really deserves to be called a champion of OFWs, it’s former USEC. Susan “Toots” Ople. Having worked with her for several projects, I can really say that she has the heart for our Kababayans who are struggling abroad. In an article in Inquirer, it’s...