Magdalo endorses JV Bautista for Senator

“(Magdalo spokesman Francisco) Acedillo also announced that the Magdalos would support a mixed opposition senatorial ticket, although half of them come from the NP: Sen. Pia Cayetano; Col. Ariel Querubin, NP bet Susan Ople, NP bet Gilbert Remulla, NP bet Adel Tamano, NP bet Rep. Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr., LP bet Brig. Gen. Danny Lim, LP bet Ruffy Biazon, Nationalist People’s Coalition bet ‘Tito’ Sotto, Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) bet Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, PMP bet JV Bautista, PMP bet Joey de Venecia.”

Magdalos go for Manuel and Manuel

abs-cbnNEWS.com | 02/24/2010 3:10 PM

MANILA, Philippines – The former military rebel group, the Magdalos, are going for 2 Manuels in the May 10 elections.

In the News: JV Bautista says Jinggoy is not like Mikey

Atty. JV Bautista, though, said Jinggoy was too humble and modest to make a point-by-point difference.

“He (Jinggoy) is far better between the two of them (he and Mikey). The other guy (Mikey) merely won in Pampanga while Jinggoy won all over the country. He holds the second highest position in the Senate and is an experienced chief executive officer having served as mayor of San Juan (City in Metro Manila). Jinggoy is a multi-awarded actor, while the other guy is a mere pseudo actor,” he said.

WHEN IT COMES TO RESPECTING THE PRESIDENCY

Jinggoy says he’s not like Mikey Arroyo

02/12/2010

To shoot down any similarities in comparison, re-electionist Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada stressed he is far different from the son of President Arroyo when it comes to respecting the presidency while it was held by his father.

La Bruja not El Niño

PRESS RELEASE

February 21, 2010

La Bruja not El Niño is cause of power and agricultural crisis – JV Bautista

Lawyer and senatorial candidate JV Bautista lambasted the Arroyo administration today for its “ineptitude in preparing for the El Niño”, a natural phenomenon that is “recurrent during the country’s summer months especially with the expected change in global climate”.

In the News: JV Bautista reveals Villar’s Behest Loans

“…Lawyer JV Bautista, a senatorial candidate of the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino of former President Estrada, revealed alleged behest loans of Senator Villar…. Bautista said the beneficiary of the P1.5-billion loan Villar obtained from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas in 1998, when he was still Speaker of the House, was the senator’s Capitol Development Bank, now renamed Optimum Development Bank….”

SWS: Noynoy 42%, Villar 35%, Erap 13%

Philstar.com – Tuesday, February 2

MANILA, Philippines – Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III continued to top the list of presidential candidates in the latest survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS), but Nacionalista Party bet Sen. Manny Villar has further narrowed the gap to just seven percentage points.

JV, Salceda, face-off on GMA legacy

“Under President Arroyo, the crisis is not only ongoing. It is continuing,” said lawyer JV Bautista of the Pwersa ng Masa party.

Inquirer Headlines / Nation

Arroyo only one to leave office sans crisis–Salceda

By Cathy C. Yamsuan. Philippine Daily Inquirer

Posted date: January 19, 2010

MANILA, Philippines—One of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s chief supporters Monday said she was the only chief executive since Ferdinand Marcos to leave Malacañang at the end of her term with the Philippines “not facing a crisis.”

JV to Villar: Account for “other public misconduct”

PRESS RELEASE. January 31, 2010.

Account for “other public misconduct,” Villar told

JV Bautista calls for audit of behest loans

Amid the controversy on the so-called “C-5 project scam,” a human rights lawyer and former party-list congressman is demanding that Senator Manuel Villar account for his other misdeeds and public misconducts, including his behest loans and “other financial accommodations” from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to his Capitol Bank in 1998, when Villar was speaker of the House.

Lawyer JV Bautista, a former Sanlakas party-list representative, said aside from the findings of the Senate committee of the whole indicting Villar for conflict of interest, the billionaire senator must also be made to return the billions he owed the government.

Trillanes should be able to perform

“The IPU is right, Sen. Trillanes should be able to perform” – JV Bautista

Source: Visit To Detained Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and Company, Report of Senator Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr. to the Senate on December 7, 2007

IPU to Senate: Let Trillanes perform duties

by Lynda Jumilla, ABS-CBN News | 01/04/2010 3:43 PM

MANILA, Philippines – An international organization of lawmakers has taken up the cudgels for detained Senator Antonio Trillanes IV who remains unable to discharge his legislative functions nearly three years after he was elected.

“Maguindanao massacre trial must be made public”

“Lawyer JV Bautista, an IBP volunteer and former Sanlakas partylist representative, believed that the trial of the accused in the Maguindanao massacre should be made public.”

NUJP to seek increased media access in Maguindanao massacre trial

AMITA O. LEGASPI, GMANews.TV

01/11/2010 | 03:05 PM

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) is set to write a letter or file a motion requesting a court to grant media organizations increased access to the Maguindanao massacre trial.

JV Bautista: “No such thing as Internet libel”

“Guevarra’s counsel J.V. Bautista pointed out the suit’s material defects, saying it would not prosper because there’s no such thing as Internet libel.”

Facebook user welcomes Belo libel suit

The Philippine Star | 09/21/2009 10:52 AM

MANILA, Philippines – Activist-lawyer Argee Guevarra, who was sued by doctor to the stars Vicky Belo for allegedly maligning her in his Facebook account, yesterday welcomed the move, saying it was “an opportunity to invite public attention to the hazards of cosmetic surgery clinics performing surgeries with untrained and unskilled medical practitioners and advertising such services as safe.”

JV Bautista files CoC with Erap

“Estrada was joined there by his vice presidential candidate, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, and six of his nine senatorial candidates: Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, Agusan del Sur Rep. Rodolfo ‘Ompong’ Plaza, former Rep. Apolinario Lozada, businessman Joey de Venecia III and Sanlakas party-list Rep. JV Bautista.”

INQUIRER NATION

Last update: December 01 2009, 11:56 PM

Estrada, Villar, Villanueva file CoCs amid fanfare

Philippine Daily Inquirer

December 01, 2009

MANILA, Philippines—On the penultimate day of the filing of certificates of candidacy (CoCs), three leading presidential contenders—Sen. Manny Villar, former President Joseph Estrada and evangelist Eddie Villanueva—went to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) with their traveling circuses.