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LOREN PULLING ALL STUNTS TO PROTECT VILLARROYO MANNY’S MONEY POLITICS NEED TO BE PROTECTED
The Liberal Party today asked Senator Loren Legarda to “put up or shut up” and try other means to protect her boss NP presidential bet Manuel Villarroyo from voter rejection of his personal culture of “money politics” that studies point as source of massive corruption in the government. LP Director General Chito Gascon said Villarroyo’s culture of “money politics” – made more visible by the revelations that Villarroyo tried to bribe his opponents to withdraw their candidacies and support him instead -- is very much different from the transformational leadership and good governance that LP standard bearers Benigno S. Aquino III and Mar Roxas push as their agenda when they take over the reins of government. “Legarda’s claim that Roxas asked her to withdraw her candidacy is a pathetic attempt to protect the culture of money politics within the Villarroyo-Legarda camp that Manny Villarroyo and Loren Legarda will surely bring to Malacañang if ever he becomes President,” Gascon said. “Money politics is when a politician buys off opponents, spends billions of pesos in TV and radio ads to cover up allegations he used his influence to benefit his own business interests, counters negative perception by peddling lies about his opponents, and will do anything – even enter into a secret deal with this corrupt administration despite claiming to be an opposition party – just to gain power,” he added. Aquino and Roxas, on the other hand, both have a clean record and have been consistent in practicing and pushing their agenda of good governance. “The LP flatly rejects this allegation as a desperate gimmickry by the Villarroyo-Legarda camp to pull Aquino and Roxas into the mud they are in now. Roxas has been targeted by Legarda for a long time because she never succeeded in catching up with his performance in voter preference surveys,” Gascon said. In the latest Social Weather Stations, Roxas leads Legarda by 17 points in voter preferences for vice-president, or a lead of almost 9 million votes if all the 50 million registered voters would vote today.
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