IT was off-putting seeing Congresswoman Leni Robredo speaking on Tina Monzon-Palma’s Talkback on the ABS-CBN News Channel, which is not a judgment on what she was saying, which all sounded good. Save for her belief in the conditional cash-transfer program and the Budget Department’s bottom-up budgeting, Robredo proved her mettle in handling women rights and protection issues, not just by knowing the law, but by actually speaking to women on the ground, and knowing the kinds of lives they live.
It is the kind of discomfort I have with hearing and seeing Senator Grace Poe speaking about the issues of the day, no matter that she is newbie senator who is echoing much of what her colleagues are saying. For whatever reason, one finds that it is Senator Poe who is the darling of the media, at least as far as giving her the mileage she wants / needs for whatever reason.
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