by Lito Banayo
from MALAYA   
How could a piece of property sequestered by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), and a lis pendens annotated upon its transfer certificate of title, land in the hands of a corporation called Crown Asia, owned and controlled by the so-called “brown taipan”, Manuel Villar, who wants to be president of the land?
The 2.18 hectare property is in the vicinity of a swanky golf course called TAT, before that Filipinas Golf Course, and even before that, during the Marcos years, known as Holiday Hills, in the municipality …

GLIMPSES
by Jose Ma. Montelibano
In the alleged attempts to influence Senator Juan Ponce Enrile to stop the investigation of Senator Manuel Villar in the C-5 controversy and to make Senator Dick Gordon withdraw from the presidential race, the phrase “not for sale” had been used as the reason why the two senators did not accept the offers. Of course, Manny Villar denied the allegations of Enrile and Gordon.
If Enrile and Gordon are not for sale, what about other Filipinos? If billions of pesos are being spent in the presidential campaign, what …

PerryScope
by Perry Diaz

A few weeks ago, a group of mostly Dumagat farmers made allegations that presidential candidate Manny Villar and his wife Cynthia grabbed 480 hectares of their land in Norzagaray, Bulacan. According to the farmers, Villar and his wife Cynthia — through their companies, Capitol Development Bank and Manila Brickworks, Inc. — obtained a loan from the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) and secured it with the farmers’ land. When the Villars failed to repay the loan, BSP foreclosed the property. In September 2008, the …

ON DISTANT SHORE
by Val G. Abelgas
 
Sen. Manny Villar, being a true Nacionalista Party stalwart, obviously believes in the political philosophy popularized by the late Mr. Nacionalista, Eulogio “Amang” Rodriguez who said: “Politics is addition.”
Having set his sight on the presidency for years, Villar picked people from various persuasions and political beliefs to form his ticket for the May presidential elections, from the extreme left to the extreme right, in pursuit of Amang’s and the Nacionalista Party’s political philosophy.
Villar would make a pact with the Devil himself and give him a …

FRANKLY SPEAKING
by Frank Wenceslao
I’ve held in high regard former UP President Jose Abueva, PhD since we were involved in the “Charter-Change Movement” before the appointment to the Supreme Court of Justice Antonio Eduardo Nachura, among others.
To make his point that Manuel Villar is the most qualified to be the country’s next President, Abueva dismissed the charges of corruption against Villar in one fell swoop, “For all the unrelenting damnation Manny gets for alleged misuse of his power and office, no judgment of his alleged corruption has been made by any …

by Ducky Paredes
from MALAYA
“By wildly lashing out at the three, Villar puts his credibility on the line against that of Gordon. Enrile and Erap.” 
 – Ducky Paredes 
Manny Villar’s problem has always been that the image of himself that he has been projecting has always been too good to be true – a slum kid who swam in a sea of garbage whose parents were so poor that a brother died because they had no money for medicine, gets to be a multi-billionaire and now wants to be President so he can get …

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

Capped by last Friday’s release of the February 21-25 Pulse Asia survey that showed him drop by six percentage points (vis-à-vis the January Pulse Asia poll) and now trailing presidential race leader Noynoy Aquino by seven percentage points — last week could well be Nacionalista Party presidential candidate Manny Villar’s worst ever bad hair week.
After the January Pulse Asia poll showed Aquino and Villar with 37% and 35%, respectively, which is considered a statistical tie — the Villar rah rah …

AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR
by William M. Esposo
from The Philippine Star
Mariano “Mike” Velarde, also known as Bro. Mike, tends to be perceived by your Chair Wrecker as being more of a businessman and a politician — who has in fact mulled running for president — rather than as a religious minister.
For perspective, your Chair Wrecker deeply admires the Christianity of Gawad Kalinga’s Tony Meloto and the late Focolare Movement founder, Chiara Lubich. They both epitomize the great commandment of Jesus Christ that “Whatsoever you do to the least of your …

by Gerry Baldo
from The Daily Tribune

http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20100305hed3.html
CEBU CITY — Former President Joseph Estrada, who has been consistently rating in third place following Liberal Party presidential contender Noynoy Aquino and Nacionalista Party standard bearer Manny Villar, has now moved to second place with 21.5 percent, dislodging Villar who dropped to 17 percent. Aquino remained on top with 25 percent.
According to Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) campaign manager, former Ambassador Ernesto Maceda, the survey was commissioned by another political party and the party would not want to disclose who among the presidential contenders …

This is former HUDCC Secretary General Tony Hidalgo’s email sent in reply to a Yahoogroups network posting. See Hidalgo’s profile excerpt and URL below. — Billy Esposo
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From: Antonio Hidalgo
To: KKKapuputahan@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 9:06 AM
Subject: Villlar and low-cost housing
To believe in Manny Villar’s “cause,” whatever that may be, is certainly your prerogative, brod. But it does not allow you to distort the facts — to say that black is white or that greed is good.
Winnie Monsod’s writings on Villar’s anomalies on the Paranaque road projects are pretty clear. I …