There are many firsts for Erap Estrada, not just being the first Philippine President to be convicted of a crime.
He got the highest number of votes in Philippine history when he ran for President in 1998.
He was the first movie actor to become President in the country.
He is also the first Philippine President to have so many concubines he never denied.
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Who is the newly elected mayor in the Third District of Camarines Sur who keeps bragging that he spent P12 million during the elections and that he owns many class vehicles?
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Freedom of Speech remains unhampered but Freedom of Spit is being curtailed in Lagawe town in Ifugao.
Bettle nut chewers in the town cannot just spit out anywhere their reddish waste.
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Because of the anomalous purchase of street brooms with a total cost of just over P600,000 former Parañaque Mayor Joey Marquez has been sentenced to prison.
Will anyone be convicted in Camarines Sur for some ghost projects worth hundreds of millions of pesos before the May, 2007 elections?
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For the Muslims, Erap’s conviction is divine wrath for eating lechon at Abubakar inside an Arabic school seven years ago to celebrate the fall of the rebel bastion.
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Prices of medicines in the Philippines are 22 times higher than in India.
Indian loan sharks here in Naga City and Camarines Sur should be in better business selling medicines than scalping hapless wage earners through their 5-6 lending system.
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Senate President Manny Villar says he is saddened by the conviction of deposed President Estrada.
Except those stricken by amnesia, Filipinos still recall how then House Speaker Villar cleverly rushed the transmittal of the Estrada impeachment case to the Senate.
It was in the ensuing impeachment trial when after Senators voted by a thin majority not to open an envelope supposed to contain an incriminating evidence against Erap that EDSA II flared up sending Erap fleeing Malacañang through the Pasig River.
