Most of the information comes from, as usual, wikipedia and ph.politicalarena.com.

And so we start off with four presidentiables for now:

1. Noynoy Aquino
   Retail sales supervisor and youth promotions assistant for Nike Philippines, 1985-1986
   Assistant for advertising and promotion for Mondragon Philippines, 1986
   Vice-president of the family-owned Intra-Strata Assurance Corp., 1986
   Vice president and treasurer for Best Security Agency Corporation, 1986-1993
2. JC De Los Reyes
   He taught Philosophy in the Center for Research and Communication (UA&P), 1993
   Free legal assistance program under an informal project named JUSTICE CRUSADE
   Campaigned against illegal fish cages, new coal power plants, and new casinos in Subic Bay
   Filing of numerous cases before the Ombudsman against high ranking government officials
   National Animator of Solidarity Philippines which does Jubillee homes for the Poor, a housing project for 60 families
3. Joseph Estrada
   Played lead role in more than 100 movies, and was producer of over 70 films.
   The first FAMAS Hall of Fame awardee for Best Actor (1981) and also became a Hall of Fame award-winner as a producer (1983)
   Founded the Movie Workers Welfare Foundation (Mowelfund) which helps movie makers through medical reimbursements, hospitalization, surgery and death benefits, livelihood, and alternative income opportunities and housing, 1974
   Arrested criminal warlords and kidnapping syndicates under Pres. Ramos’ Presidential Anti-Crime Commission (PACC)
   Declared an “all-out-war” against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and captured it’s headquarters and other camps… went to Mindanao and raised the Philippine flag symbolizing victory!
4. Richard Dick Gordon
   Brand Manager for Procter and Gamble Philippines, 1966-67
   Helped his mother Amelia run the government of Olongapo after his father James Leonard Gordon was assassinated, late-1960s
   Associate of ACCRA Law Offices
   Campaigned for a “No” vote on the 1987 Constitution framed by the Aquino appointed constitutional convention
   Lobbied for 3 months to include the free port concept into the Bases Conversion Act which hitherto had been hastily cobbled together without consultation
   Chairman of Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority
   Governor of the Philippine National Red Cross

And there it is! Come back for PART IV and the rest of the presidentiables noteworthy accomplishments.

1. Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro
   Kabataang Barangay President, Tarlac, 1980
   Central Luzon Kabataang Barangay President, 1980
   Member of the Sanguniang Panlalawigan of Tarlac, 1980-1986
   Elected to three straight terms to the House Representative for the First District of Tarlac, 1998-2007
   Assistant Majority Leader, 11th Congress
   Head of Nationalist People’s Coalition House Members
   Member of the House contingent to the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council
   Appointed Secretary of the Department of National Defense, 2007
   Chairman of National Disaster Coordinating Council
   President of the Lakas-Kampi-CMD, 2009
   Grade School and High School, Xavier School
   Secondary Education at Ateneo de Manila University, 1962
   Bachelor Degree, Commerce, De La Salle University
   Bachelor of Laws at the University of the Philippines College of Law (Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence)
   Topped the Philippine Bar exams
   Master of Laws, Harvard Law School
   Admitted to State Bar of California
   New York State Bar, 1997
   Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by West Negros University of Bacolod
2. Manny Villar
   Congressman of Las Pinas and Muntinlupa, 1992-2001
   Speaker of the House of Representataives, 1998
   Senator, 2001
   Senate President, 13th Congress, 2006
   President, Nacionalista Party
   Primary education, Holy Child Catholic School
   Secondary Education, Mapua Institute of Technology
   Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, University of the Philippines, 1970
3. Eddie Villanueva
   NO Government Position experience
   Bachelor of Science in Commerce, Philippine College of Commerce
   Doctorate Degree on Divinity by Promise Christian University
   Doctor in Education Management, Honoris Causa from Polytechnic University of the Philippines
   Doctor of Philosophy in Humanities, Honoris Causa from Bulacan State University
4. Nicanor Perlas
   NO Government Position (i.e. employed directly under a Government agency with Government tenure under Career Executive Service and the like; job consultancies are not allowed, NGO representation not allowed as this is Government) Experience
   Technical Advisor, Presidential Commission on the Bataan Nuclear
   Member, Pesticides Technical Advisory Committee
   Technical writer and formulator, Philippine Agenda 21 (PA21)
   Civil Society Co-Chairman, Philippine Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD)
   Philippine representative to United Nation, UNDP, FAO, UNCSD and UNICEF.
   Consultant and Advisor to government agencies: Senate, House of Representatives, NEDA, DSWD, DA, DENR
   (Although I hold reservations of listing any of these since none of the above are actually government positions per se and are job consultancies and not directly under the government or acting in a legal manner as holding a government position)
   Primary and Secondary Education, Ateneo de Manila University
   Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Xavier University Cagayan

If you ask me, nobody beats Gibo!!!

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They kind of look the same right?

Anyway to my real post:

So my blog this beautiful Sunday will be about the presidentiables to the upcoming Philippine elections. I will just be listing down each of their previous positions in government so we can see what in what varied capacities our presidentiables have acted. I also included educational background. All of the data is thanks to PoliticalArena.com

Since there are so many presidentiables we will start with five and then next week with the remaining presidentiables:

1. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III
   Congressman of the 2nd District of Tarlac from 1998 to 2007
   Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, 2004-2006
   Sat as member in 16 committees during tenure and in 12 years authored 9 bill, all never passed.
   Senator in the 14th Congress, chairs the Senate Committee on Local Government
   Liberal Party (LP) Secretary General and Vice Chairman (posts held previously)
   Noynoy is a graduate of Economics at the Ateneo de Manila University.
2. John Carlos De Los Reyes
   Elected City Councilor of Olongapo in 1995
   Elected City Councilor of Olongapo in 2007
   National animator of Solidarity Philippines
   Ateneo de Manila for his elementary education, and graduated from high school at De la Salle.
   B.A. in Theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville.
   Post-graduate studies in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines in 1999
   Law in Saint Louis University, Baguio City in 2005
3. Joseph Estrada
   Mayor of San Juan, 1969 (removed upon Corazon Aquino’s assumption in office)
   Senator, 1987
   Sponsored bills that were signed into law: Preservation of the Carabao (Republic Act no. 7307) and The Construction of Irrigation Projects (Republic Act no. 6978)
   Chairman of the senate committee on cultural minorities
   Vice-President, 1992-1998
   Chairman of President Ramos’ Presidential Anti-Crime Commission (resigned)
   President, 1998-2001 (Ousted by popular revolt 2001, Impeached and Convicted for Plunder beyond reasonable doubt, 2007)
   Ateneo de Manila University – Primary Education (Expelled)
   Engineering course at the Mapua Institute of Technology (unfinished)
4. Richard Gordon
   Elected as a delegate of the constitutional convention, 1971
   Mayor of Olongapo City, 1980-1986
   Mayor of Olongapo City, 1988-1993
   Chairman and Administrator of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, 1992-1998
   Secretary of Tourism, 2001-2004
   Senator, 2004-incumbent
   Chairman of the Senate Committee of Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Laws
   Responsible for the passage of Republic Act No. 9369 — or the Automated Elections System and Republic Act No. 9499 Gordon’s Veterans Bill, principal author of the National Tourism Policy Act of 2009 or Republic Act 9593
   Elementary Education at Colegio San Juan de Letran, 1954
   Secondary Education at Ateneo de Manila University, 1962
   Bachelor of Arts, major in History and Government, Ateneo de Manila University, 1966
   Bachelor of Laws at the University of the Philippines College of Law, 1975
5. Jamby Madrigal
   Undersecretary of Social Welfare and Development, 1992-1998
   Presidential Adviser for Children’s Affairs, 1999-2001
   Seantor, 2004-incumbent
   Chairperson of four committees in the Senate, namely, the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources; Committee on Youth, Women, and Family Relations; Committee on Cultural Communities; and the Committee on Peace, Unification, and Reconciliation
   Successfully authored and passed the Anti-Child P(had to censor due to my server restrictions) Law
   Voted against legislation such as the E-VAT law, the JPEPA treaty and the Anti-Terrorism law

And so that is it for today! Hope you are better informed now!

1. Manny Villar
   

   Manny Villar

   

   Villars YM advertisement

   I am so very very very very very sick of his advertisements, on TV, on the radio, even on SLEX he puts a huge poor kids face on a billboard, what is he trying to say?  That the Philippines is poor and he is the one who can save us?  I don’t believe in people saying oh you are poor and you are poor and vote me your problems will be gone.  I believe in people who give people things that will make them improve themselves.  We don’t need a saviour, we need an enabler to wake us up out of our laziness and every one of us to help ourselves.  I don’t mean it in a selfish way but look, if we all can improve ourselves then we won’t have to find other people to fix our problems, but leaders in ourselves, Oh yeah!  Look at his far reaching kinda-like-stalking ym advert on the left, when did opposing the administration become a qualification for being a President?  Goodluck, if you do win, like it or not, you’ll be part of the administration.

2. Gordon
   I can’t even recall his first name, or is that his last name? Anyway whoever thought of putting Silent Night into your ad campaigns…. Good thing they didn’t choose a truly liturgical song! It’s blasphemous and it mixes the sacred emotions of Christmas with him… eeew. Wouldn’t it just ruin your Christmas for 2010 if you heard Silent Night and remembered his face instead of a nice Christmas tree and you snug with a cup of hot peppermint mocha from starbucks?
3. Noynoy Aquino
   Might as well call himself Cory Ninoy Noynoy Aquino.  Take away his two parents and what has he done? Besides it looks like it’s celebrities campaigning and not him, everybody vote Ninoy because celebrities will!
4. Loren Legarda
   She suddenly spews out some advertisement about the environment when the Ondoy tragedy strikes, talk about taking advantage of a situation, and distasteful time at that.
5. Erap Estrada
   Talk about who are you kidding?  Talking about his experience in government, the longer you stay in the government doesn’t equate to the intelligence or wisdom you have accrued by staying in power, it could be said the longer you are in government the more time you spent being tempted in corruption.  Besides the point, try watching him in any presidential debate or forum, he can’t get to the essence of any question, and spews as much motherhood statements as Gordon.
6. Nicanor Perlas
   Another motherhood statement guy, get into a local government position and see if you can handle that before handling the presidency of a country with 90 million people.
7. Jamby Madrigal
   Out of the vast deforests jungles and plantations of Madrigals comes out Jamby and into the political scene. Get a position in a department of the government, being a Senator just isn’t the way how things operate, too high brow, to0 doling out money style and cameras lights action.  Try holding DSWD for example.