Letter to the Editor: Not his style [Tribune]

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.

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Letter to the Editor: Lacson’s role in Senate probe clarified [Manila Times]

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.

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Letter to the Editor: Response to John Dodson column [Tribune]

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.

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Letter to the Editor: Lacson is not a Duterte enabler [Standard]

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.

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Letter to the Editor: Reply to Vergel Santos [Rappler]

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.”

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