Sotto on being bashed: I’m an easy target

Sotto cited his perfect attendance and more than 160 laws he passed (Photo:
Senate of the Philippines/Facebook)

Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III, the new Senate President, has been filling social media trending topics while being dragged to several issues and bashing, but his take on this is that he is just an “easy target.”

“Siguro (Perhaps), the easiest answer is because I’m an easy target,” he said in an interview with GMA on May 22, Tuesday, just a day of officially filling in his new position.

The star-turned-politician said that he is keeping himself positive despite all the flames he has been receiving online, at the same time citing that bashers are only seeing the negativity.

“Dito kasi sa mga namimintas, ang dami naman sa kanila wala lang maawa eh. Ba’t hindi nila tingnan record ko sa Senate (Well when it comes to bashers, they have no mercy at all. Why would not they look at my record in the Senate)?” he said.

Sotto cited his perfect attendance and more than 160 laws he passed.

However, he added that he was not the type to flaunt his achievements by “broadcasting everything to the media” so it was easy for bashers to just criticize him.

“Ang iniisip ko, ‘yung inilalagay ko sa isip ko, ‘yung 17 million Filipinos na bumoto sa akin. Hindi ‘yung 300 or less bashers (What I am placing in my mind are the 17 million Filipinos who voted for me. Not the 300 or less bashers),” the Senate President noted.

For Sotto, it was either the bashers simply did not like his “face” or his “politics.”

“Either hindi nila alam or talagang hindi lang nila gusto ‘yung hilatsa ng pagmumukha ko, or hindi nila gusto yung pulitika ko, ganun lang siguro ‘yun (Either they know nothing or they did not like my face, or they did not like my politics, that is it),” he said.

Sotto also said that another reason could be his entertainer side, saying that his popularity with Vic Sotto and Joey de Leon in “Eat Bulaga!” could also be the source of the bashing he is getting.

He, however, said that he will just let the Lord have his ways, saying that He knows what the truth is.

“So kung anuman ‘yung paniniwala nila, kung anuman ‘yung bintang nila, sa kanila na ‘yon (So whatever they want to believe, whatever their accusations are, that is just for them),” he said referring to his bashers.

Sotto is currently in the pool of criticism for plagiarism, his “na-ano” comment to former Department of Social Welfare and Department (DSWD) Judy Taguiwalo, rape allegations and involvement on late actress Pepsi Paloma.