Tuesday, January 17, 2012
\nREPRESENTATIVE Pastor Alcover Jr. of the Anad party-list group denied accusing President Benigno Aquino III of bribing the 188 lawmakers who signed the impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Renato Corona.
\nIn a December 20 Sun.Star Cebu report – Did pro-Corona impeachment legislators get bonuses from Malaca\u00f1ang? – Alcover was quoted as saying: \u201cGidawat kuno nila kay maayo nalang kuno ipamasko sa ilang constituents. Pagka-bagag nawong mga tawhana (They said they accepted it because they want to give Christmas presents to their constituents. They\u2019re shameless).\u201d
\nAlcover was pertaining to the alleged P1-million bribe offered by Aquino to each of the 188 House members. Other Cebuano lawmakers who signed the impeachment complaint denied the supposed claim of Alcover.
\nIn a privilege speech Monday, Alcover said the Sun.Star Cebu report was \u201cinstantly played up by media in Manila\u201d and his colleagues were quick to react without \u201cchecking the facts\u201d and \u201cextending a simple courtesy of calling me up to hear my side.\u201d
\nAlcover explained that the Sun.Star Cebu report carried the same statements he made in an earlier radio interview with Elias Baquero in the program \u201cYagyagan\u201d over DYDD, Cebu City.
\nIke Durano, station manager of DYRF, supposedly \u201cinflamed\u201d an already \u201ctenuous situation\u201d when he called up and interviewed Bayan Muna Representative Neri Colmenares, one of the impeachment prosecutors, Alcover said.
\n\u201cClaiming balanced and fair reportage, Durano called me up and took my side on the issue. Practically, in my interview with Durano, I just repeated the very same things that I\u2019ve said during Elias Baquero\u2019s radio program. Immediately after our interview, Durano ranted with expletives and innuendoes accusing me of things I never committed nor possessed in my lifetime,\u201d Alcover said.
\n\u201cIn all that I\u2019ve said in these interviews, there was no mention, whatsoever, nor even finger pointing and accusing President Aquino III of bribing the 188 congressmen,\u201d he said.
\nAlcover dared House Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales, Representatives Ben Evardone (Eastern Samar), Roger Espina (Biliran), Rene Relampagos (Bohol), and Cesar Sarmiento (Catanduanes) to make good of their threat to have him investigated by the House Committee on Ethics where he may face possible expulsion from the body.
\nEvardone\u2019s position to have Alcover investigated for \u201cputting Congress, as an institution, and my colleagues in a bad light\u201d have earlier gathered support from several House members and leaders. (Kathrina Alvarez\/Sunnex)<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.sunstar.com.ph\/manila\/local-news\/2012\/01\/17\/lawmaker-denies-accusing-aquino-bribery-200937<\/p>\n
Good hotel accommodation in Clark is available for Manila residents and tourists looking for good resorts in Pampanga for vacations and holidays in Philippines. Clearwater Resort is one of the best resorts in Pampanga that is lauded by Manila residents for its safe and clean outdoor facilities that are perfect for family bonding or for stressed out Manila residents to relax and unwind during a weekend in the north. Many guests of this hotel in Clark Pampanga enjoy fishing in the lake or their fishing pond located next to the outback tents hotel accommodation. Clearwater appears frequently on the top of a list of the best hotels in Pampanga. Function room for meetings and seminars is also available in this popular resort in Clark Philippines.<\/p>\n
Getting to this hotel in Clark Philippines
\nAfter entering Clark Freeport from Subic, Manila, Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along Clark\u2019s main highway MA Roxas, passing Clark\u2019s largest wine shop called Clark Wine Center on your right, continue to bear right making no turns at all, go past Mimosa Leisure Estate on the opposite side of the road, you will hit a major intersection. Go straight and the road becomes Creekside Road. YATS Clearwater Resort and Country Club is on your right just 200m down. Traffic in Clark Philippines is light so it should be quite easy for get to this hotel in Clark Philippines.<\/p>\n