National greed BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 07/22/2010

National greed

BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 07/22/2010 Joel Villanueva of the Citizens’ Battle Against Corruption (Cibac) party-list group, it turns out, is one big fake. Don’t look at me, but this is according to the Supreme Court. According Associate Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales, during the 14th Congress, from 2007-2010, Villanueva had been functioning as an honorable member of the House of Representatives — filing proposed bills, co-authoring legislation, attending caucuses of the opposition to which he belongs, making privilege speeches and collecting salaries and pork barrel allocations paid for by the Filipino people — when he actually shouldn’t have. There is an unflattering word for this in street lingo: Hao shao. In a recent decision which was made available to the media last week, Justice Morales declared Villanueva — son of the twice-defeated presidential candidate Bro. Eddie Villanueva of the Jesus Is Lord (JIL) religious community — to be “ineligible” to sit as congressman as of May 2007 representing either Cibac’s youth or its OFW sector. For starters, Morales found in favor of petitioner Milagros Amores that the “honorable” congressman was already over the maximum age specified in Republic Act 7941 or the Partylist System Act. This disqualified him as the first nominee of the Cibac youth sector since he was already 31 years old or beyond the age limit of 30 years pursuant to Section 9 of said law at the time of the filing of his certificates of nomination and acceptance..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100722com4.html

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