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By XIANNE ARCANGEL,GMA News
October 13, 2014 6:25pm
 

The opposition must be dreaming.
 
Two Liberal Party (LP) stalwarts on Monday disputed allegations made by the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) that Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II is behind a smear campaign called “Oplan Stop Nognog 2016” (Oplan SN16) against Vice President Jejomar Binay.
 
Western Samar Rep. Mel Senen Sarmiento, LP secretary general, said Roxas has no time to be involved in the supposed demolition jobs against the Vice President because he is preoccupied with his tasks as a Cabinet secretary.
 
“Secretary Roxas would never be involved in such so-called demolition job because for one, he doesn’t need it and two, he is too busy with his job as  DILG Secretary and has no time for such nonsense,” he said in a statement.
 
Earlier in the day, UNA Secretary General JV Bautista claimed in a television interview that Roxas was the brains behind a “well-funded, well-financed, and well-organized conspiracy” to discredit Binay and diminish his chances of winning in the next national elections.

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No Oplan SN16
 
Sarmiento dismissed “Oplan Stop Nognog in 2016” as a product of Bautista’s imagination.
 
“Attorney Bautista must be seeing hearing and seeing things that are outside the realm of reality,” he said.
 
Sarmiento noted that former Makati City Vice Mayor Ernesto Mercado, Binay’s former ally who has accused the Vice President of benefiting from the allegedly overpriced construction of the Makati City Hall Building II, is not affiliated with the Liberal Party.
 
Senators Alan Peter Cayetano and Antonio Trillanes IV, who have been at the forefront of the Senate probe on the issue are not LP members, he added.
 
“Mercado, Trillanes and Cayetano all belong to the same political party. When Mercado ran in 2010, he ran under NP (Nacionalista Party),” he said, referring to Bautista's claim that the three are involved in Oplan SN16.
 
The Nacionalista Party is part of the administration coalition.

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samok ning politiko nato kay imbis manarabaho mangumpanya na man hinoon para sa sunod election.  meantime, they're getting their regular pay in their current positions while using government working hours for their next aimed positions.  syet ba uy.  but then, what else is new?

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Hmm, sa US of A naa pud kunoy ABB -- Anybody But Binay...

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otherwise, the column is all about the "snub" president aquino made on the fil-am community in the u.s.  the community is of the mind that it deserves an audience with the philippine president for all the good for the country that its members have done.

i would understand expectations and disappointments.  but it is with some regret that i fail to understand why SOME expat filipinos (with emphasis on those who have chosen double citizenship, with exceptions as usual) feel that an audience with the president is owed them.  the reason given in this particular column is because they have done much for good governance.  fine.  well and good.  but then, does doing good demand an audience with the president?  why not just do good, quietly, for its own sake?  to complain is to question one's own juvenile concept of self-importance.

more excerpt from the column:

"No such luck. Aquino dispatched a video message. He was too busy for them. I wrote a biting commentary on the snub and suggested that overseas Pinoys should stop expecting any special attention from Aquino but to just go ahead and help the Philippines and the Filipino people anyway, whether or not they were appreciated for it."

so there it is.

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Interior Secretary Mar Roxas and Vice President Jejomar Binay
INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

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