by Tonette Orejas
Kapampangan pride received either a boost or a beating depending on who you ask among the cabalen of Senator Manuel “Lito†Lapid concerning his first-ever “performance†at the Senate impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
For a few minutes, the action star-turned-lawmaker, not exactly known for eloquence but more for his membership in the so-called committee on silence, rose confidently on Day 10 of the trial to throw questions in Filipino at a prosecution witness from the Security and Exchange Commission.
Lapid took to the floor on Wednesday at the time when he was in the media spotlight albeit for an entirely different case closer to home: His wife Marissa was charged with dollar smuggling
in the United States last week.
Kapampangan musician Irwin Nucum was hardly impressed by what he saw. He dismissed as “insignificant,†for example, Lapid’s question on the difference between a “cash advance†and a “loan.â€
The issue then was about the P11-million loan taken by Corona and wife Cristina from a supposedly inactive company owned by her family in 2003.
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