{"id":75519,"date":"2016-05-07T09:41:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T13:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=75519"},"modified":"2025-01-20T17:48:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T22:48:53","slug":"escudero-chides-cayetano-false-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/05\/07\/escudero-chides-cayetano-false-conspiracy-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Escudero chides Cayetano for \u2018false conspiracy theory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59154\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11095239_10153496988555610_8483248220606325828_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59154\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11095239_10153496988555610_8483248220606325828_n.jpg\" alt=\"Photo from Escudero's official Facebook page\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11095239_10153496988555610_8483248220606325828_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11095239_10153496988555610_8483248220606325828_n-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senchizescudero\" target=\"_blank\">Escudero&#8217;s official Facebook page<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA&#8211;Senator Francis \u201cChiz\u201d Escudero on Friday lashed out at his fellow vice presidential candidate Senator Alan Peter Cayetano for accusing presidential aspirant Senator Grace Poe of conspiring with Malaca\u00f1ang and Liberal Party standard-bearer Mar Roxas II to bring down presidential frontrunner Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Cayetano, after being silent for quite some time, is once against acting and talking like a wild and rabid dog.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy furosemide online <a href=\"https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/furosemide.html\">https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/furosemide.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> He is throwing wild accusations simply because he himself cannot answer the issues being thrown at his running mate because it will contradict everything that he is and has stood for in the past,\u201d Escudero said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy modafinil online <a href=\"https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/modafinil.html\">https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/modafinil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Escudero also took exception to Cayetano\u2019s claim that the \u201cbusinessmen supporters\u201d of Poe are funding the negative advertisement against Duterte.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy symbicort inhaler online <a href=\"https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/symbicort-inhaler.html\">https:\/\/care.aanviihearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/symbicort-inhaler.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore he questions Senator Grace about the supposed businessmen who are allegedly behind her, he should look at himself in the mirror first,\u201d Escudero stressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a fact that more big businessmen are behind him and his campaign for how else can he afford to spend nearly half a billion pesos on pre-campaign ads alone, not to mention other campaign expenses?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In a hastily called press conference, Cayetano bared an alleged conspiracy among Malaca\u00f1ang, Poe and Roxas to prevent Duterte from winning in the May 9 polls.<\/p>\n<p>Cayetano claimed that the Palace initially tried to make either Roxas or Poe pull out from the presidential race for them to have a united front, but the plan supposedly did not materialize.<\/p>\n<p>He also alleged that the Palace and the camps of Poe and Roxas were behind the negative ad against Duterte, which was shown on television Thursday night, but Escudero vehemently denied this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Grace and I ran a clean campaign and we have avoided hitting our opponents or engaging in negative campaigning. What Senator Cayetano is accusing Senator Grace of is simply not our style and completely out of character for us to do, much less tolerate,\u201d Escudero pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the Bicolano lawmaker said he would not allow powerful businessmen and politicians to continue to dictate the course of politics and the election in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am against an election being decided by a select few or by the elite who are simply the so-called \u2018powers that be.\u2019 I will not tolerate it and I will always fight for the power and right of the people to decide freely who they want to serve as president and vice president sans any manipulations of the elite in trying to syndicate the elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Escudero said Cayetano should stop accusing Poe\u2019s camp as among those behind the negative campaign against Duterte, pointing out that \u201cthe only one with the capacity and stomach to do this is the administration and the LP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u201dDon\u2019t blame or look at us,\u201d Escudero said. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8211;Senator Francis \u201cChiz\u201d Escudero on Friday lashed out at his fellow vice presidential candidate Senator Alan Peter Cayetano for accusing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":59154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[3374,2893,1146,2102,2444],"class_list":["post-75519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-alan-peter-cayetano","tag-chiz-escudero","tag-liberal-party","tag-mar-roxas","tag-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-jelly-f-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75519","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=75519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286268,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75519\/revisions\/286268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}