To the Inquirer: While I am gratified that my concerns have triggered a debate on the merits of the menstrual leave bill – online bashing by trolls notwithstanding – I am setting the record straight on some aspects of her column, and sharing the basis of my earlier opinion on the subject bill.
Continue reading “Lacson: Empowering Women Goes Beyond Menstrual Leaves [Inquirer]”
To Manila Standard: We wish to disabuse the minds of your readers of the malicious attacks made by Ernesto Hilario in his March 18, 2022 column against Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson.
Continue reading “Letter to the Publisher: Response to Ernesto Hilario’s column [Standard]”
December 23, 2021 – To The Daily Tribune: This is to set the record straight regarding the insinuations in your 22 December 2021 commentary that Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson will relegate constitutional rights to the backseat should he be elected president in 2022.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Not his style [Tribune]”
To The Manila Times: We wish to set the record straight regarding The Manila Times editorial of Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021 (“Senate probe could harm public interests”), where it tried to link politics to Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson’s participation in the ongoing Senate probe into irregularities in the government’s procurement of medical supplies to deal with the pandemic.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Lacson’s role in Senate probe clarified [Manila Times]”
To The Daily Tribune: We wish to set the record straight regarding the insinuations made by John Henry Dodson in his Tribune column on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, where he tried to link politics to Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson’s participation in the ongoing Senate probe into irregularities in the government’s procurement of medical supplies to deal with the pandemic.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Response to John Dodson column [Tribune]”
To Manila Standard: We wish to disabuse the minds of your readers of the malicious imputations made by Rudy Romero in his Oct. 7 column that Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson is a “neo-oppositionist” who was among the “enablers” of President Rodrigo Duterte.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Lacson is not a Duterte enabler [Standard]”
To Rappler: We wish to disabuse the minds of your readers of the malicious claims made by Vergel Santos against Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson in his Oct. 8 “opinion piece” – where among other things, he cited Sen. Lacson’s sponsorship of what is now the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 to bolster his accusation that the Senator helped further President Rodrigo Duterte’s “authoritarian designs.”
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Reply to Vergel Santos [Rappler]”
September 28, 2021 – To The Daily Tribune: We wish to set the record straight regarding the claim in your 26 September 2021 commentary that tagged Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson as a “bully” in the Senate probe of the anomalies in the government’s procurement of medical supplies to deal with the Covid pandemic.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Response to Commentary [Tribune]”
To The Daily Tribune: We wish to set the record straight regarding the outright falsehoods and insinuations against Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson by Mr. Aldrin Cardona in his 20 September 2021 column (Sides of the Same Coin).
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Setting the Record Straight [Tribune]”
To BusinessWorld: We wish to set the record straight regarding some comments made by Mr. Oscar Lagman, Jr. in his column (“Presidential wannabe Ping Lacson’s proposal is ill-conceived,” August 16, 2021).
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: A united front [BusinessWorld]”
To the Tribune: We wish to set the record straight regarding some imputations made by the Daily Tribune in its 15 August 2021 commentary, regarding the unification formula proposed by Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson for the May 2022 elections.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Pro-Filipino [Tribune]”
To the Inquirer: Please allow us to set the record straight and disabuse the minds of your readers from the malicious claims made against Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson by John Nery in his Philippine Daily Inquirer column on Aug. 10, 2021.
Continue reading “Rejoinder from Lacson’s office vs Nery’s column [Inquirer]”
To the Manila Standard: Please allow us to set the record straight regarding the baseless and malicious attacks made by Rod Kapunan in his column in the June 12, 2021 issue of the Manila Standard, where he accused Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson of – among other things – imposing conditions on other people and parties including the 1Sambayan coalition, while in pursuit of his political plans for 2022.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Senator Lacson responds to Kapunan column [Manila Standard]”
To The Manila Times: Please allow us to set the record straight regarding the column of Mauro Gia Samonte last April 24, where he claimed Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson made a “turnabout” by recommending the relief of Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. as spokesperson of the NTF-ELCAC.
To The Tribune: This is to set the record straight regarding your April 24, 2021 commentary that imputed motives to the remarks of Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson on the community pantries that have been set up in parts of Metro Manila and nearby provinces recently.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Reply to Tribune Commentary”
To Mindanao Times: Please allow us to set the record straight regarding claims made by Mr. Vic N. Sumalinog in his March 16, 2021 column regarding Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson – including his insinuations that personal and/or political motives are behind Sen. Lacson’s less-than-glowing comments on some issues involving Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III.
Continue reading “Letter to the Publisher: Response to Vic Sumalinog’s Column [Mindanao Times]”
To Panay News: We wish to set the record straight regarding some claims by Mr. Roberto “Bert” Ladera in his March 4 column in Panay News – including that Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson is belittling the efforts of our law enforcers in battling the menace of illegal drugs, when he said that the anti-drug war has not succeeded.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Failed drug war [Panay News]”
To the Manila Standard: We wish to set the record straight regarding some points made by Rod Kapunan in his column in the Feb. 20, 2021 issue of the Manila Standard—including his claim that Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson branded as an “extortionist stance” President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement that the United States will “have to pay” if they want the Visiting Forces Agreement done.
To The Manila Times: Please allow us to set the record straight regarding your Dec. 4, 2020 editorial, which claimed, among other things, that Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson has made it his “advocacy” to criminalize red-tagging.
To the Daily Tribune: We wish to set the record straight regarding your commentary that insinuated motives – again – to Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson’s exposing of questionable items in the P4.5-trillion budget for 2021.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Reply to Commentary [Tribune]”
From The Daily Tribune: In response to a 24 October editorial of the Daily Tribune, Senator Panfilo Lacson’s camp wrote that the legislator is not ready to give the House of Representatives’ version of the General Appropriations Bill the benefit of the doubt regarding the measure being free of pork.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Lacson stands ground, says House GAB ‘illegal’ [Tribune]”
To Federico Pascual: Please allow us to set the record straight regarding some claims you made in your Sept. 6, 2020 column in The Philippine Star – including the suggestion that Senator Panfilo M. Lacson’s Senate bill enables President Rodrigo Duterte to “designate” who will succeed him.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Reply to Federico Pascual’s column [Philippine Star]”
To the Inquirer: Please allow us to set the record straight regarding the column of Prof. Edilberto de Jesus (“Dangerous distractions,” Business Matters, 9/5/20), where he touched on a proposed piece of legislation that aims to avert a potential constitutional crisis and leadership vacuum by extending the constitutional line of succession.
To the Inquirer: Please allow us to set the record straight regarding some points raised by former Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio in his Inquirer column, where he said Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson, along with President Duterte, are “sadly mistaken” with regard to the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) as terrorists.
To Luisito ‘Cito’ Beltran: Please allow us to set the record straight on the misconceptions and insinuations in your column in The Philippine Star’s April 20 edition.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Reply to Cito Beltran’s column [Philippine Star]”
To The Philippine Star: Please allow us to set the record straight regarding Ms. Reyes’ column on Dec. 22, 2019, where she stated it is “unfortunate” that Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson “wants an investigation” into issues involving the organizers of the recently concluded Southeast Asian Games – and insinuated that the investigation may be for “grandstanding.”
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Reply to Mary Ann Reyes’ column [Philippine Star]”
To the Manila Standard: Please allow us to disabuse the minds of the public regarding the column of Mr. Ernesto Hilario where he extensively quotes statements from the House Speaker and his deputies, including the accusation that Senator Lacson is an obstructionist “out to derail the reform programs of President Duterte.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Who is the real obstructionist here? [Manila Standard]”
To the Inquirer: Please allow us to set the record straight regarding Solita Monsod’s Sept. 14 column, “Three against Leila,” where she insinuated that Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson had an “axe to grind” against Sen. Leila M. de Lima as his motive in inviting former Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) OIC Rafael Ragos and Jovencio Ablen Jr. of the National Bureau of Investigation as resource persons to the Senate hearing on corruption at the BuCor last Sept. 12.
To Malaya Business Insight: This refers to the column of former ambassador and Dean Reynaldo Arcilla, where he tried to inject political color into Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson’s recent statements on the Recto Bank incident at the West Philippine Sea.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: On Rey Arcilla’s column [Malaya Business Insight]”
Sen. Lacson’s office answers repeated questions and accusations about the 2019 budget in this letter to The Manila Times‘ April 1, 2019 editorial. The letter sought to answer some questions in the editorial that were addressed to the senator, though it has yet to be published.
#NoToPork
Related:
UsaPing Katotohanan: Pork and the National Budget
UsaPing Katotohanan: Pork at ang Pambansang Badyet
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Answering some questions in the budget conundrum [Manila Times]”
To The Manila Times: Please allow us to set the record straight and disabuse the minds of your readers regarding the column of Mr. Rolly G. Reyes last March 7 where he made personal attacks against Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson – including his claim that the senator’s disclosures on pork barrel are due to a supposed fixation on Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: On Senator Lacson’s alleged ‘fixation’ [Manila Times]”
To those who remain confused about institutional and individual amendments in the budget, Sen. Lacson differentiates the two in his letter to The Manila Times.
Sen. Lacson’s letter is in response to the challenge of former Sen. Francisco Tatad for further details of the institutional amendments he proposed to the P3.757-trillion national budget for 2019. The letter was sent to The Manila Times last Feb. 19. As the reply has yet to be published after more than one week, this is also for the enlightenment of those who had read former Sen. Tatad’s earlier insinuations and challenge to Sen. Lacson.
#NoToPork
Related: In the Spirit of Transparency: Lacson Details Institutional Amendments to 2019 Budget
Continue reading “A Closer Look: Institutional Amendments to the 2019 Budget”
To The Manila Times: This is in connection with the thinly veiled insinuations made against Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson by Mr. Francisco Tatad in his Feb. 13, 2019 column in The Manila Times.
Related:
Olivar hurled personal innuendos to muddle the issue [Manila Standard]
Lacson to ‘Talking Heads’: Keep Helping Enlighten Public on Pork
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Senator Lacson’s ‘institutional amendments’ in 2019 budget explained [Manila Times]”
To the Manila Standard: It is quite pathetic that Mr. Olivar, instead of helping his former boss clear up the issue of pork in the 2019 budget, chose the path of his fellow talking heads by hurling personal innuendos at the Senator to muddle the issue.
Related: Lacson to ‘Talking Heads’: Keep Helping Enlighten Public on Pork
Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: On Gary Olivar’s hurling personal innuendos to muddle the ‘pork’ issue [Manila Standard]”
To The Manila Times: This is in connection with the column of Mr. Rigoberto Tiglao published on Dec. 21, 2018, where he made several baseless accusations and innuendoes against Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson.
To the Inquirer: This is in connection with the column of Ramon Tulfo on July 7, where he claimed Sen. Panfilo Lacson “was implying that President Digong could have been responsible for [Tanauan City Mayor Antonio] Halili’s assassination because the Chief Executive said the mayor was involved in drugs and that he probably had it coming.” Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Lacson’s office on Halili’s killing [Inquirer]”
To the Inquirer: This is in connection with the letter (5/4/18) from retired Philippine Air Force chief Lt. Gen. Antonio Sotelo, where he questioned Sen. Panfilo Lacson’s statement about the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency making public the list of barangay officials linked to illegal drugs. Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: ‘Wisdom in Lacson’s warning’ [Inquirer]”
To the Inquirer: This refers to the Inquirer’s March 9 editorial, which questioned the decision of the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs, chaired by Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson, to adjourn the hearing into the claims made by retired SPO3 Arturo Lascañas. Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Lacson shirked no responsibility [Inquirer]”
