WE have exercised circumspection in offering our views on the now-infamous “stag party” put on by Liberal Party officials in Laguna last week, because everyone—except, naturally, the parties involved —has reacted to the story just as they should have reacted, with horrified outrage.

There is, of course, no justification for employing dancers to perform simulated sex acts in a public function, or anywhere else for that matter. In the wake of the scandal, the response of LP officials has just made their public image problems even worse. MMDA chairman and presumptive Senate candidate Francis Tolentino, who provided the “gift” of three dancing girls, went from “I didn’t do it” to “But I asked the girls to wear skirts” back to “I didn’t do it” in the space of about an hour last Wednesday evening after the salacious news saturated the local regular and social media. Other LP officials, after taking way too long to think about it, finally mustered the appropriate embarrassed approbation to express their disapproval and promise to “investigate” the affair the following day, and have been obviously trying to avoid the subject ever since.

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