‘Sticker wars’ prove Aquino is ‘President of the elite’ By Gerry Baldo 05/01/2010

‘Sticker wars’ prove Aquino is ‘President of the elite’

By Gerry Baldo 05/01/2010 The Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) yesterday said the raging “sticker wars” was the best way to illustrate the “extreme and suspicious” closeness of Liberal Party (LP) presidential bet Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino to the country’s elite, a fact which it said also clearly shows where his real priorities are. PMP director Wilson Agbayani raised this point during the PMP coordinators’ meeting last Friday, stressing how Aquino’s yellow ribbon stickers are plastered on expensive cars and SUVs (sport utility vehicles), while stickers supporting their standard-bearer, former President Joseph Estrada, are conspicuously posted on passenger jeepneys, tricycles and “padyaks” (pedicabs). “That’s where you’ll see where a candidate’s support comes from and whom he supports,” Agbayani, in a statement, said. Agbayani is in charge of marshalling all of the party’s volunteers and coordinators in Metro Manila. “Since 80 percent of Filipinos are poor, then it follows that only a real man of the masses can represent them. It does not follow that if you have more money, then you have a bigger claim on the country’s future.... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100501hed3.html

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