{"id":201992,"date":"2019-02-13T02:18:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T07:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=201992"},"modified":"2019-02-13T02:18:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T07:18:57","slug":"reelectionist-senators-begin-campaign-for-2019-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/02\/13\/reelectionist-senators-begin-campaign-for-2019-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Reelectionist senators begin campaign for 2019 polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_196180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196180\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/48406005_2207731092591426_2443768187343339520_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196180\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/48406005_2207731092591426_2443768187343339520_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/48406005_2207731092591426_2443768187343339520_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/48406005_2207731092591426_2443768187343339520_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-196180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Grace Poe, who is running as an independent candidate, started off her campaign with a feeding program for grade school students in Payatas, Quezon City. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sengracepoe\/photos\/a.631774263520458\/2207731089258093\/?type=3&amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sengracepoe\">Grace Poe\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Some reelectionist senators officially kicked off their electoral campaigns on Tuesday at the onset of the 90-day campaign period for the May 2019 polls.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Grace Poe, who is running as an independent candidate, started off her campaign with a feeding program for grade school students in Payatas, Quezon City.<\/p>\n<p>Poe said her legislative advocacy is to provide free nutritious meals to public school students, which is now a law &#8212; Republic Act 11037 or the Masustansyang Pagkain Para sa Batang Pilipino Act.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Sila talaga ang simbolo ng pag-asa kaya gusto ko dito mag-umpisa kasi masaya. Sila ay nagpapaalala sa akin kung bakit ako tumakbo sa unang pagkakataon<\/em>\u00a0(Children are the symbol of hope that&#8217;s why I wanted to start here because it&#8217;s fun. They remind me of the reason why I ran [as senator] for the first time),&#8221; Poe told reporters in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Senators Sonny Angara, Cynthia Villar, and Joseph Victor Ejercito joined the campaign kickoff in Pampanga organized by Mayor Sara Duterte&#8217;s regional party, Hugpong ng Pagbabago.<\/p>\n<p>Angara vowed to continue his family legacy anchored on education, health, job generation, social pension for senior citizens and stronger local government units and barangays.<\/p>\n<p>Ejercito said he would focus on spurring more investments in health and infrastructure, which would lead to more jobs and greater income.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Paolo Benigno Aquino IV, meanwhile, began his campaign with the opposition senatorial slate Otso Diretso in Caloocan City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Some reelectionist senators officially kicked off their electoral campaigns on Tuesday at the onset of the 90-day campaign period &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":196180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201992","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}