“Toby’s song has a refrain: Who’s sorry now? – incidentally a Connie Francis hit” The recent mid-term electoral exercise was historic. The 82 percent
Toby’s song has a refrain: Who’s sorry now? – incidentally a Connie Francis hit”The 82 percent turn-out among the 68 million registered voters was the highest among all mid-term elections, but the results were a big surprise, thwarting almost all of the surveys including the two most experienced and credible ones, newbies trying to be credible, and the usual “table” surveys that come and go with each electoral cycle.
Toby Tiangco is one of the more decent persons to populate the House of Representa-thieves. I hold him in high regard, not only because he and his brother John Rey have done wonders for their small city, once just an “arrabal” of neighboring Malabon, but because of his sense of loyalty, so rare among legislators in this day and age.
Chafing at unfairly placed blame upon him for the disastrous performance of the senatorial slate of Alyansa ng Bagong Pilipinas, that newest iteration of “unity” in the cut-and-dried, outmoded message box of this government, Toby spilled the beans, blaming political power plays prior to the elections that would make Sun Tzu and Machiavelli rise from the grave.
The singer has a nice voice, but the lyrics of the song will be discredited by the hallelujah chorus in the House who may be likened to Imelda Marcos in her prime describing some legislators as “jukebox” – drop a coin and they will sing whatever you want.
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