{"id":157457,"date":"2018-03-20T05:25:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T09:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=157457"},"modified":"2018-03-20T05:25:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T09:25:39","slug":"48-solons-call-for-sandra-cams-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/20\/48-solons-call-for-sandra-cams-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"48 solons call for Sandra Cam&#8217;s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_157458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157458\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-06-6d10334758e4ef13a3d086b21abe432ec5c5fd6183dea746e347c54a42f53d92_full_5ab0b7b0b690d1_14381431.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157458\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-06-6d10334758e4ef13a3d086b21abe432ec5c5fd6183dea746e347c54a42f53d92_full_5ab0b7b0b690d1_14381431.jpg\" alt=\"PNA photo\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-157458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PNA photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A total of 48 lawmakers at the House of Representatives have signed a resolution demanding the immediate resignation of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) board member Sandra Cam and the initiation of contempt proceedings against her.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives Arnolfo Teves, Danilo Suarez and Ace Barbers led the filing of House Resolution 1777, demanding Cam&#8217;s resignation for exhibiting &#8220;unruly behavior&#8221; during a congressional hearing on the use of small town lottery (STL) operations as front for illegal gambling.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution said that Cam accused Teves of being involved in STL operations during the Feb. 28 House hearing. Cam also resorted to name-calling, yelling, and shouting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aside from accusing a member of this House of alleged wrongdoing, Ms. Sandra Cam called Hon. Teves names, and was yelling and shouting at the latter,&#8221; the resolution reads.<\/p>\n<p>It added that Cam hurled more &#8220;contemptuous and threatening remarks&#8221; against Teves, noting that she also &#8220;verbally abused&#8221; Suarez.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such unruly behavior of Ms. Sandra Cam is a direct affront to this institution,&#8221; the resolution said.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the resignation call, the lawmakers also urged the House of Representatives to initiate contempt proceedings against the former jueteng whistle-blower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 A total of 48 lawmakers at the House of Representatives have signed a resolution demanding the immediate resignation of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":157458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[48681,11118,4133,5173,48682,5269],"class_list":["post-157457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-48-solons","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-pcso","tag-sandra-cam","tag-sandra-cam-resignation","tag-solons","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}