Last edited by poisontree; 06-11-2010 at 10:15 PM.
speaking of TV ads... fresh news
Race winners submit false poll expenses
The Daily Tribune <<< Without Fear or Favor >>>
By Marie A. Surbano
06/12/2010
The incoming Aquino government appears to be starting with the practice of lying, or perjuring itself, based on some of the statements on campaign expenses submitted by both winning and losing candidates that have been found to be highly questionable.
Such statements on election expenses are sworn to by the candidates themselves and duly notarized which makes the issuance of false statements a crime of perjury.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec), through its spokesman James Jimenez, said that some of the statements of contributions and expenditures submitted by winning and losing candidates in the May 10 national and local polls are questionable and the Comelec is now eyeing to tap the examiners from the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Commission on Audit (CoA) to help the Comelec in auditing the statements of expenditures and contributions submitted by the candidates in the recently concluded May 10 polls.
“So far, the findings are general... Some of them are outright questionable, or even ridiculous in some cases,” Jimenez stressed.
He added that some of the candidates claimed that their expenses were far less than what one would expect, considering the high rates of print and television advertisements nowadays.
“For example, in the television ad campaign, everyone has a good idea how much a TV ad campaign would cost. But now you see a report that comes in that the cost is less than 65 percent of what is the expected cost, even factoring in all the various discounts that the candidates are supposed to get,” the Comelec official said.
However, Jimenez declined to identify the concerned candidates.
There was no need to identify the candidates who spent hundreds of millions in advertisements, such as President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, who promised an “honest and transparent” government under his presidency.
It will be recalled that just on the TV advertisements, groups and organizations, including the Comelec, checking on the advertising frequencies of presidential and vice presidential candidates, showed that Aquino had exceeded his time limit in ad exposures in ABS-CBN network—on his so-called personal funds, along with his party funds. The same went for Nacionalista Party standard bearer, Manuel “Manny” Villar, who also had exceeded his advertising frequency allowed by the Comelec.
It now appears that Villar had even less expenditure on his ads than Aquino.
Aquino, according to the statement of expenses submitted spent a mere P440 million total campaign expense, while Villar submitted a statement of expenses claiming having spent only P431.5 million.
The report was supposed to represent contributions and “donations” which moreover were not identified.
According to the Comelec spokesman, they would rather tap the services of BIR and CoA than the private sector auditors because they have the number of auditors that they would need to hasten the review of the documents submitted by the politicians.
“We are looking at the possibilities of a partnership with BIR and CoA. BIR because we want to look at the tax angle and with CoA because they have a lot auditors but ultimately these expenditures are made outside of the government. So CoA really has limited jurisdiction. But it is the examiners that we want to tap rather than the agency itself,” Jimenez explained.
He said the commission has reservations in getting the help from the private sector because of accountability issues.
“We’ve talked about that for sometime now, the possibility of getting volunteers, but there are some issues with that. How do you assure that our volunteers can remain accountable despite the fact that they can appear and disappear whenever they like it. So it becomes an issue also,” he added.
Jimenez noted that the purpose of the audit is really to determine if candidates were truthful in the documents they have submitted concerning the money they spent in the last May 10 elections.
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again ingna na pud ni crabs.. cge start na ang defend bwahahaha.
the best way noh pra ma answer imo problema adto sa comelec then file a complaint thats the best g1bo loyalist can doI don't need to defend Noy2 im here to support him don't worry I'll criticize him if ever he didn't do his job as a President
. Affected naman kaayo ka romeo kaluoy sad nmo haha
paita bag-o pa gani ang proclamation bad publicity na dayon.![]()
i agree nimu, bai... its too early for criticisms para ni noynoy... makita ra nya nah... lisod gani nang naay experience kay kabaw na mutago ug binuang. pero one thing for sure, dili kaya ni noynoy nga siya ra usa. dapat naa juy colaboration gikan sa mga politiko, ug kita pud mismo mutabang bisan gamay man lang, kung kaya man gani daku-on, mas labing maayo. i hope naa juy kausaban...dili jud na kalit ang kausaban pareha ug magic...mao nay gi-ingon nga one step at a time, pero mas maayo jud nga magdouble time kay musamot ta ug kaulahi. kung naa man gani God bless america, dapat naa pud God Bless Philippines.
kitakita ra gihapoy magtinabangay, dibah...
i rename nalang ni nga thread na Noynoy Bashing thread aka 6 Years of Bitterness![]()
ahahaha... mga higala, murag hot rapud kaayo mo about noynoy...hehehehe
he will have his time to prove himself...
kung naa man gani siyay negatives, how much more nang uban diha. bisan kita mismo, naa man pud tay mga binuhatan nga kabaw ta sayop pero gibuhat gihapon nato. atong gibuhat bisan sayop kay naa tay rason. mga rason nga dili masabtan sa tanan.
well, dili lang ta maghisgot ug lain nga names kay noynoy thread mani. dili lang unta nato kalimtan nga dili lang siya ang naay kasaypanan, daghan sila. nahitabo lang nga siyay nakadaog maong siya karon ang gihan-ukan sa mga criticisms. lisud jud nang sikat nah.hehehe
magpasalamat nalang tah nga siya ang nakadaog, ug dili ang ikaduha. kay kung ang ikaduha pah, na ambot nalang kung asa ta punta. bow!
anyways Noynoy's press con after the proclamation
YouTube - Noynoy Aquino Presscon after Proclamation (1/4)
waaaaaaaaaaaa.. and ang iyang terms sa pagkasenator, di ba pod to time ta dapat to prove sa iyang self?
personally, bitter ko when i think of the past performance ani na taw and sa circumstance sa iyang pagdagan to winning. mao di makasabot ang uban sa pagkabitter kay sige lang sila look forward. over ka positive. and that is not good.
look back sa kad**** beh?
if si aquino moperform ug maayo,will love him to the highest level kung maprove niya na sayup ang mga wa nituo niya.
ff to july1 !
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