Let’s all be fair

Look around us, observe the good example our colleague is practicing, be a leader to those who leads astray. Never try nor plan to do what one-‘brenda’ senator did --- being myopic and disparaging with others; and is always on the lead scrutinizing other people especially those Cabinet and local officials who aired their respective ads.

I agree with what Mr. Sesinando Santos, a Phil. Daily Inquirer reader who wrote the publication to comment on the infomercial topic, had wrote; pointing out that Sen.Miriam Santiago should not be myopic and see only wrong doing of the others. How about the infomercials of her fellow senators? stressed the perceptive letter writer, a certain Mr. Sesinando Santos, in the Inquirer’s Friday issue.

Mr.Santos questioned whether Sen. Miriam can "spew the same fire and venom" to her Senate colleagues as she did to the Cabinet officials with infomercials during her investigation.

I asked myself too, who are the identified candidates of the 2010 election whom Sen. Miriam never had her infomercial inquiry with? I wonder---- if she included in her list names of her Senate colleagues like Sen. Manny Villar and Senator Mar Roxas who have been running infomercials like crazy. In fact, they have been spending tens to hundreds of millions of pesos running those self-serving infomercials.

If Santiago were really sincere, why limit her infomercial inquiry to members of the executive branch?

These senators have all the advantages, when it comes to premature politicking.
They have their Priority Development Assistance Fund or PDAF (a.k.a. “pork barrel funds”), which are—by practice—beyond state audit unlike officials of the executive branch whose expenses are rigorously audited and examined by the Commission on Audit (COA).

Proceeds from their PDAF outlays can bankroll the senators' higher ambitions, including the funding of infomercials.

Santiago has pointed out that Cabinet secretaries and other officials of the executive branch have so far collectively spent P218 million in advertising expenses.

But reports have it that one senator salivating for the presidency has already thrown away close to P500 million for his infomercials alone!
We doubt whether Santiago will choose to include this senator in her investigation, as the word "fairness" is obviously not part of her vocabulary. Please. Try to be fair. Learn to be fair.