FIRST my congratulatory message to Robin Padilla for leading in the senatorial race. But if I must confess, I was one of those who got taken aback by his overwhelming victory.

Well, he was too. To begin with, as he admitted himself, he had neither the political machinery nor the resources to boost his candidacy.

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