Press Release
September 25, 2008

LACSON: JOKER PLAYING AN OLD TUNE

By repeatedly injecting politics into the issue, Sen. Joker Arroyo continues to skirt the real mess on the P200-million road-to-nowhere double entry in the 2008 budget, Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson said Thursday.

Lacson said Arroyo had conveniently engaged in diversionary tactics to throw the public off the real issue behind the P200-million mess, which is "corruption, plain and simple."

"Sen. Arroyo is conveniently singing an old tune, but refuses to face the real music. This is not about politics, this is not about presidentiables, this is not about 2010, but this is about corruption," he said.

He also said Arroyo's attempt to defend the double entry, armed with lack of personal knowledge on the issue, miserably failed.

"Senator Arroyo, after failing to defend the P200-million double entry in the 2008 budget, is again merely resorting to his favorite ploy of squid tactics," he added.

Lacson also took exception to allegations he caused a rift among the opposition senators, saying the Senate had been split as early as 2007 when some senators who ran under the banner of the Genuine Opposition chose to join the majority bloc.

He said it was the clique of now Senate President Manuel Villar Jr. who, in a bid to ensure his hold on the Senate top spot, abandoned the real opposition, and not the other way around.

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