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OF all the presidential candidates in this kind of politics, Mar Roxas no doubt stands as the better and more qualified candidate. He is well-educated about public governance, economics and international trade, and has shown humility when he slid down to the vice presidential level to give way to Noynoy’s consuming ambition to become president, an ambition that has infected both Grace Poe and Jejomar Binay. He has never been associated with any corrupt act, and appears straightforward and honest.

Grace Poe is relying mainly on her late father’s good image in the movies, not in real life, on a sentimental family history as an orphan, and seems to have acquired an exceptional dramatic flair, too, which can deceive the voters. But underneath the drama and sentimentalism, Grace Poe does not have much, and she could easily be swayed by vested interests and advisers to the people’s detriment.

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Of course, Binay’s star is exploding in the face of the glaring corruption accentuated by the non-appearance of his cohorts who have all fled abroad to avoid the Senate investigation.

Of course, like the other candidates, we can only expect that Mar Roxas will never pursue a socialist economic approach.
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My beloved wife, Atty. Evangeline Tadlas-Carrasco, who wants to enter politics, was born on Rotary Day, Feb. 23, and that’s why her birth certificate would show that her first name was Rotarni. The priest wanted it changed, so it was replaced with “Evangeline”. Her mother and siblings call her Leni, while I’ve learned to call her Vangie. Not known to many, Vangie does household work. She does the laundry when the househelp is gone, and she cooks, too. She sews the curtains and pillow cases in our house and those of my children, and the foot driven sewing machine is her favorite appliance.

Everyday, she works on the pleadings with the computer at home, oftentimes up to eleven o’clock in the evening. Still she manages to sleep well and appears refreshed each morning.

While reviewing for the bar exams at San Beda, we would often attend the rallies against the Marcos dictatorship, and we attended the meetings of Bayan. We joined the funeral march for Ninoy starting from the Sto. Domingo Church, but we had to stop at the Luneta when she started to bleed. She was then pregnant with our daughter People (Angeline Marie) who clung to dear life and who finally went back to San Beda as a law student and became a lawyer. Vangie and I had tumultuous and troubled times, too, just like any married couple. We had financial difficulties, and early on in law practice, she was not ashamed of riding in motorelas in going to court. We kept on struggling and trying, and managed to send our five kids to decent schools and they are all doing fine now. Actually, our children are our real wealth. We could not ask for more.

Vangie, like many of us, is nearing the sunset of life, and now her only wish is to serve as a legislator—and she pledges that, if she gets elected, she will serve only for one term, and no more. Her only promise now—to serve the people faithfully.

(Mariano B. Carrasco is a lawyer basd in Cagayan de Oro.)

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