Since setting foot in the political arena, Senator Maria Lourdes “Nancy” Sombillo Binay has been subjected to online ridicule for all sorts of reasons. More prevalent in the first few years of her public life, she was “bashed”—to use the social media jargon—for issues more legitimate than others, meaning to say there were those that were either inane or downright cruel.
At the onset, Binay was blasted for running as a political greenhorn, aiming no less for a senate seat on her first and only candidacy so far in 2013. A fact she cannot deny, the daughter of former Vice President Jejomar Binay, the AB Tourism graduate of the University of the Philippines countered detractors with information that she had served as personal assistant to her father and mother Dr. Elenita Binay during their successive terms as Makati City mayors, and therefore attune to the workings of government.