Source: PinoyObserever.com
Posted by Ricky Rivera

Baring anything out of the ordinary, Chiz Escudero will declare his presidential bid between November 17 to 19. Sources say Escudero is just fixing some logistical problems, trying to tie loose ends in organizational and his networks and firming up commitments from cause-oriented and business groups.
Escudero is relying on the Filipino-Chinese community for support. Chiz enjoys …
Read the full story >> Chiz Escudero will run as President

by Ding Gagelonia
From Filipino News Network
Beyond the scuttlebutts and unkind text messages which have been sent to premium post paid mobile numbers, your Midfielder is now ready to reveal the real reason for Sen. Francis ‘Chiz’ Escudero’s break-away from his political party the Nationalista People’s Coalition.
I have spoken to at least five insiders in the NPC.
Here, for the first time, are the details …
Read the full story >> Why Chiz Left The Nationalist People’s Coalition

The Long View
by Manuel L. Quezon III
from Philippine Daily Inquirer
IN JAKARTA OVER THE WEEKEND, I discovered that a famous political saying from the Philippines enjoys wide currency particularly within the circle of President Sudhuyono: “My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.” The phrase dates back to 1922 when public opinion became a factor in elections and it summarizes the recent decision of Francis Escudero to renounce his party affiliation and …
Read the full story >> A wedge of Chiz

by Lito Banayo
from MALAYA
The surprise decision of Chiz Escudero to resign from the NPC was finalized in his mind and in his heart only on Tuesday morning, the day before he was expected to rally the troops at the Bahay ng Alumni of the University of the Philippines. A simple but emotionally rousing event had been planned to begin at 5:30 on Wednesday afternoon. After a quick lunch at his informal campaign headquarters, the cozy Taste of L.A. along Alejandro Roces St., conveniently two hundred meters away from his small …

Dispatches from the Enchanted Kingdom
by Manuel Buencamino
from Business Mirror
“I think natural selection must have greatly rewarded the ability to reassure oneself in a crisis with complete bullshit.”
—Bob Harris
Pundits said Francis “Chiz” Escudero committed political suicide when he bolted from the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC). He may have done that, but I doubt that was what he had in mind.
The NPC had very little to do with his popularity. In fact, it was dragging him down. That’s why many wondered why he did not leave the party sooner.
One of his former …

PerryScope
by Perry Diaz
On October 28, 2009, Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero dropped a bombshell when he announced that he was bolting the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC). It was stunning and unexpected. He was supposed to make his presidential bid official but instead he said that he is still undecided on what to do next.
However, his campaign manager, Lito Banayo, said: “He was running as himself, not as one bound by the party’s interests. He did not want to be ‘chained’ to party interests, and in an unusually bold statement, virtually made …

Theres The Rub
by Conrado de Quiros
from Philippine Daily Inquirer
 
It was totally unexpected, which lived up to its hype of being a “bombshell.” I doubt anybody was prepared for Chiz Escudero’s announcement that he was bolting his party, the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), and going it alone.

“Whoever wants to be president of this country,” he said, “won’t go far with his hands and feet shackled, his eyes blindfolded and his mouth gagged. Whoever wants to be president of this country should have no allegiance to any party—NPC, LP, PMP, Lakas. He …

AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR
by William M. Esposo
from The Philippine Star

Legendary Manila Mayor Arsenio Lacson once described a ‘young once’ politician as “so young and so corrupt.” In those days, our society still harbored illusions that the youth were idealistic, innocent and generally incorruptible.
These days we know better. In fact, many of the criminals we now see being charged are young and their crimes range from petty theft, robbery, rape, drug dealing and murder. Among our crooked public officials, there are young crooks and older crooks. The sons of plunderers …

by Ellen Tordesillas
The decision of Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero to bolt from the Nationalist People’s Coalition, the party that nurtured his political career the past 11 years, has introduced a new moral element in the campaign.
It showed a young candidate, without the logistics – from family treasure chest or from business earnings or from government resources – to subsidize a national campaign which election experts say could cost P3 billion nor the inherited billions of pesos to, daring to go direct to the people to bring his message of reforms …

by Purple S. Romero
from abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak
MANILA – Quitting the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) had been on the mind of Sen. Francis ‘Chiz’ Escudero for a month already. On Sunday (October 25), the die was cast.
Escudero, who was expected to be NPC’s standard-bearer for 2010, announced his decision to leave the party on Wednesday, stirring shock among his partymates.
But the 40-year-old solon actually reached his decision Sunday, two days after his then rumored running mate Sen. Loren Legarda declared her intention to run for the vice-presidential post.
Some reports say Escudero left the …