Kris A peddles choice Senate posts for LP bet By Angie M. Rosales 06/22/2010

Sisters vet Cabinet bets, are behind Noynoy’s major decisions Kris A peddles choice Senate posts for LP bet By Angie M. Rosales 06/22/2010 It didn’t take long for the Aquino sisters, chief among them, television celebrity Kris Aquino, to wield power and influence and interfere in state affairs, not only in the Executive branch of government, but also in the Legislature, more specifically in the Senate at this time. While the youngest sister of President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino was busy calling up several senators again, this time peddling choice committee chairmanships in exchange for their vote to ensure the Senate presidency seat for Liberal Party’s Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, the other sisters, Ballsy Aquino-Cruz and Pinky Aquino-Abellada, were at their brother’s residence in Times Street, meeting the vetted Cabinet choices and informing them what they ought to be doing as Cabinet secretaries of Noynoy, who was also present at the meeting, reportedly giving the selected officials their “marching orders,” as earlier approved with the sisters. It is an open secret that the sisters of the incoming president are consulted by him, and most, if not all decisions made, and being made, arrived at after consulting them.  A reliable Senate source disclosed to the Tribune yesterday that presidential sister Kris Aquino has not stopped calling up the senators for their vote, this time going a step further and offering several senators choice positions in the upper chamber, as committee chairmen in the incoming Senate. It is presumed that this has the approval of her brother Noynoy, as she alone cannot promise these choice committee seats — ranging from the Senate President pro-tempore, to the Majority leader, to the finance and ways and means committee, as well as offers from her for some senators to be able to retain their previous chairmanships in the incoming Congress—in exchange for giving their vote to Pangilinan, who is the spouse of movie and TV celebrity Sharon Cuneta. It was also reported earlier that the LP bet for the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Felicisimo “Sonny” Belmonte had stated that Noynoy Aquino had informed him that he wanted a say in the assignment of committee chairmanships, which is deemed as clear inteference in the affairs of a independent and co-equal branch of government by the incoming president.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100622hed1.html

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