Santiago: Senator-endorsers ‘ugly,’ ‘unfit’ for office

[Motownkid]

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Miriam for President!

[The_Child]

your playing too well to Ramos' propaganda against Miriam: Brenda (brain damage)
would a brain damage person be a potential candidate for the ICJ?

anyways, sakto man pud ang senador, its a conflict of interest for senators to be models of some products. Its called delicadeza.

cheers!

[omar50071]

Meriam should make her own commercial like retards getting a rehab, empowering retards to run in the senate....or anything about mentally challenged role, all she has to do is act natural, it fits her. Who knows, she could win an award. Most Convincing Award.

[edgeknife]

what's wrong with senators/lawmakers endorsing products?? i have nothing against it.... or suya lang si miriam or KSP kay bati man og nawng, unya wala may mokuha niya....

why actor/ senator like bong revilla, lito lapid still making movies in fact they are now senators mao ra pud na....

[giddyboy]

tinuod na ang gisulti ni Miriam...dili angay for senators to endorse products especially sa tv ug billboards. delikado ma conflict of interest na when time comes that they will be making or amending laws involving the products they have endorsed.

murag WALAY DELIKADEZA...so unbecoming of senators of the republic of the phils.

kung ad2 ka sa manila, pwerteng dakoa kaayo ug billboards ang kay Loren Legarda ug Panfilo Lacson. syiiit!

[radiostar]

murag na suya si meriam ani da

[aoryaj]

Di ko pro or anti Miriam pero naa siya punto kay ngano man jud pakita dako ang dagway pero ang gi endorse gamay ra kaau unya di pa jud mabasa sa layo. Na unsaon mana nimo karon nga nag endorse man kaha sila ug produkto, asa man ang produkto ila gi endorse naka butang dapita nga nawong man nila ang dako kaau?

[giddyboy]

murag na suya si meriam ani da

nasuya or dili c miriam, IMHO, sakto tingali gihapon ang iyang gisulti...

Miriam: "Premature campaigning by candidates in the guise of commercial ads."

dili naman gani unta angay mag actor cla bong ug jinggoy sa local movies. pero dats another matter. we are talking about senators endorsing products on tv or billboards...

what if for example one senator is endorsing a whitening product like glutathione? and what if the issue of safety in using gluta will be debated in the senate? of course, ma conflict of interest gyud tong nag endorse. that will make us taxpayers disadvantageous coz u will have one less senator who myt inhibit due to conflict of interest.

as of now we have these senator-endorsers:

Panfilo Lacson - Facial Care Center
Richard Gordon - Safeguard soap
Pia Cayetano - Downy fabric conditioner
Francis Pangilinan - Lucky Me instant noodels
Francis Escudero - Circulan
Loren Legarda - Lucida DS

"Some of the explanations the senators who appear in ads offer to justify it are pretty hilarious."-Conrado de Quiros

Ping Lacson: "Product endorsement, yes; self-promotion, no."

Dick Gordon: "The intent and core message of the Safeguard campaign is to teach the general public the benefits of proper hand-washing and its importance in preventing the spread of communicable disease."

Pia Cayetano: “I personally lent my name to a good cause, which is saving water.”

here's some other points to ponder:

"Do these senators’ ads represent premature campaigning? Probably, though the lines here are infinitely more blurred than in Bayani Fernando’s case. The senators are at least not using taxpayers’ money for these ads, and they are promoting products rather than themselves, for which they are getting paid. Fernando’s posters and billboards simply have no right to be there. They are illegal where the senators’ ads are merely unethical. They are punishable by jail where the senators’ ads are only punishable by scorn."
---Truth in advertising, Conrado de Quiros,Asian Journal on-line, June 3rd, 2008