My good friend sent me an e-mail with a blog post from a Facebook user named Happy Feraren. While she was waiting for President Cory Aquino’s cortege, she and her Mom decided to buy a yellow umbrella. They were then given a yellow beaded bracelet afterwards for free. However, when they looked closer at the bracelet, it had the picture of Senator Jamby Madrigal, who recently declared her intention to run for the Presidency in 2010. Senator Madrigal, with all due respect, I think you’ve crossed the line with your politicking. Giving away campaign materials during the memorial service of former President Aquino is just foul and disrespectful. Here’s a picture of the supposed Jamby Madrigal Bracelet:
Full quote of the narration of Happy after the break.
Shame on your Jamby Madrigal by Happy Feraren
Now that we’ve remembered, relived and recreated the spirit of ’86 let’s make sure this yellow ribbon doesn’t get tangled up in other people’s political campaigns.
Subtle electioneering IN A FUNERAL?!?! SHAME ON YOU. Do not ride on Cory’s wave to pursue your vested interest. The people who waited in the streets weren’t there to see you! The revolution doesn’t belong to you, phony politician, it belongs to the people. And what makes you think you could get away with such a dirty trick? Cory’s lasting impression of sincerity, humility and honesty is now the benchmark of what leaders are supposed to be. You think people don’t see through you? The respect we have for Cory is not something you acquire with falsity (or through endorsement from Judy Ann Santos) it is earned. How dare you pose as someone offering sympathy to the Aquino family while you think about the votes you’re going to get come election time.
As I waited for the cortege (news networks’ new favourite word) along the South Super Highway, my mom and I bought 2 yellow umbrellas from this street vendor who was also selling nuts. And then as we paid, he pulled out something from his pocket – a yellow beaded bracelet nicely packed in a small clear plastic bag. Upon handing it over to us, he said: “Eto o, bonus para sa inyo.”Of course my mom and I were pleased and were all “awww how sweet.”Until I actually looked at the bracelet and saw a little tag with the name and photo of Jamby Madrigal.
I called out to him and asked, “O bakit may Jamby Madrigal itong bracelet na ito” and when I looked at the vendor for an answer he had already walked away.
Maybe an hour before this incident, I saw her car passing by the growing sea of people. Window open, flashing the L sign and strangely enough, a cameraman in front filming the people. My mom started shouting “Transparencyyyy!” and then I looked at her asking if I could put up my middle finger and my mom looked at me and said I should just shout transparency, accountability or good governance. In other words “BOOOOOOOO!!!!” And then the two of us just started shouting BOO JAMBY!!!
I am utterly disgusted by you, Ms.Madrigal. And to you other filthy politicians, behave yourselves because we are all watching you, even if you’re supposedly Cory’s “favorite” mayor. Genuine democracy is People Power and everything Ninoy and Cory stood for. It also means that now, whenever there’s a phony claiming he or she is there to protect Cory’s legacy, we will be able to speak up and act with the same fearless fervour we had before.
You know sometimes I wish I could march in the government offices with a magical broom that can sweep away all the dirty politicians we have in this country. A giant clean up, but this time not just for the environment but for our government. Haha, imagine if we could really do that? I’m already writing down the names of the people I’d attack first with my magic walis!
So, before you file for candidacy (a bit too late though in this case) think again. Actually, good luck! The people have remembered.
Taken from Facebook Notes
Senator Madrigal, if memory serves me right, there were close to 300,000 people during Cory’s memorial service. By spitting at her memory by campaigning, you just lost 300,000 votes for 2010. I’m sure you will lose millions more when this piece of information spreads out to the general public. This Jamby Madrigal Bracelet fiasco is something that I just can’t stomach.
To all bloggers out there, please re-post. Let’s get the word out.
Happy, thanks so much for sharing this! Not only did Jamby Madrigal take advantage of this moment of grief for their own political gain. I am sure many of them did! Our politicians and gov’t officials have no hope and will never ever in their wildest dreams ever ever reach even the toes of Ninoy & Cory! I suggest you seriously take your magic walis & go on a ride through all these people’s offices and sweep them off to oblivion! We don’t deserve these pieces of…. you know what!
Wrong move girl! Wrong move!
Now we know who among them has really good intentions.
Jamby, Mar Roxas, Jojo Binay – opportunists all!
Brexy, good intentions alone don’t matter. As one once famous management guru said, the bin of failed projects
is littered with good intentions!!!
I agree w/ Andy and well said.. Sadly the majority of votes are cast from those of the oppressed and the needy..sa madaling salita, mas maraming boto nakukuha ang mga pesteng buwaya at gahamang pulitiko sa pagkalat at paglahad ng kanilang mga pangako sa mga mahihirap at less fortunate nating kababayan..sila na madaling pangakuan, madaling mabola at kayang bilhin ang boto..isang cancer na hindi yta malulunasan na sa larangan ng pulitika sa bayan natin..meron nmn iba na nagawa nga ang pangako na ibinigay, pero malinis ba talaga ang intensyon at ano naman ang naging kapalit noon sa serbisyo at artikulong naipasa nila? ahh.. nasayang lang at nadungisan ang malinis na adhikain at sakripisyo na ibinigay ng mag asawang Aquino para sa ating bayan..tsk tsk! Hindi dapat dito lang maibahagi ang kahihiyan na ipinamamalas na pagsamantala para sa personal na ambisyon ng mga pulitikong ito..lalo na sa mga kababayan natin na higit na nangangailangang makita ang maskara na nakabalot sa mga hunyangong iboboto nila.
I never like Jamby Madrigal. I do not trust her.. Now because of that bracelet she distributed during Tita Cory’s funeral, I have more reasons to believe that she cannot be trusted. She’s a user in the true sense of the word. PLS PEOPLE DO NOT VOTE FOR HER. KAWAWA ANG BAYAN NATIN. BAKA MAS GRABE PA YAN SA MGA ARROYO.
i don’t think the people are stupid enough not to know who really are mourning for cory and whose silently campaigning… …that’s obviously bullshit!!
I heard about this and am glad I read about this. Kung puwede lang mag-mura online, I would. Jamby Madrigal is probably one of the stupidest or dumbest senators around. She gets involved in stupid issues and relies on popularity of show business personalities to get into seats of power. Thinking about it, ginamit pa niya yung chimay na si Judy Ann Santos last time to get into the Senatoriable race. She succeeded but boy, did she look stupid in senate among other Senators. Much like Jaworski, Revilla and all the other moronic superstars.
shame,shame,shame, SHAME on you JAMBY!!!!!!don’t treat us as if we are stupid not to see your hidden agenda….riding on Tita Cory’s death as a chance to campaign…..hell NO!!!!!
“be involve and put yourself where it counts”
ang problem kasi natin the other branches of our government is not functioning well. We dont need a honest president if someone will check him out, automatic na mag behave siya kung mag trabaho lang ng tama ang congress.
to all presidentiables, if u are genuine reformist, mag senador na lang kayo, kasi u will have more chances of winning there and makakapagbantay kayong maigi.
convince niyo din mga kasama niyo na genuine reformist to fill up the congress. para magbantay din doon. I hope ang pagbabantay niyo ay genuine that u will put the interest of this country first before yours and your constituent.
Tama na yung divisiveness natin, wala na dapat kapampangan,bisaya at ilocano. dapat lahat pilipino.
Doon sa mga makabayan pero tamad naman kumandidato at mag sakripisyo, wala kayong karapatang mag reklamo. Kasama na kayong mga tamad bumoto, huwag kayong mag rereklamo kaopag hindi naman kayo bumoboto.
Its time for the good peolple to rise up and be involved. Mailiit ang sahod sa Gobyerno, kaya yung mga honest, make a sacrifice to be a public servant, yun lang ang solution sa mga problema natin.
Mabuhay po kayo
NOT SURPRISED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh!!! poor Jamby….Why don’t you wait for the campaign period..Don’t use the burial of Cory just to take advantage of your selfish political ambition..You desecrate the revered interment of our beloved mother of FREEDOM….You’re such a trapo!!!!
Why am I not surprised that Jamby Madrigal did something like this? NEVER saw her as a sincere individual, nor intelligent, for that matter. Just anything for publicity.
walang galang!!!! . . . . . bastos!!! . . . . .
YUCK! EEEW! KADIRI!
NO, not the report, but the reported incident….
Sometimes, it pays to just stay on the sidelines and let your actions do the talking….
I wonder, what would Mrs. Judy Ann Santos-Agoncillo have to say on this?
@ Andy – just for FYI. the quote, ‘the bin of failed projects
is littered with good intentions!!!’ is one of the many variants derived from the original quote by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153), ‘Hell is full of good intentions or desires’. Also more commonly recognized and known as, ‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions’. Just Saying…
sick’o!!
Yan na nga ba sinasabi ko, some will use Tita for their own vested interest. Ok pa siguro kung magkasama sila sa picture
kaso sinolo nya.
Effective pa ba kaya ang kanyang charm bracelet?
shame on her, sha can’t stand on her own? why should we vote for her or even just talk about her. I say we must ignore her, she’s only one termer anyway.
ANG KAPAL NG MUKHA MO KUBA!!!
Thank you so much for sharing this. I already posted this in other social networking sites. NOW WE KNOW WHAT TO DO IN MAY 2010.
And by the way, WE DIDN’T EVEN FEEL SHE’S A SENATOR. Nagtatrabaho ba siya? Ha ha ha.
@kuya allan….
I agree the majority of the votes are from the oppressed people who are easily convinced with “little” promises from the politicians. They should learn that even the money they get from those cheats during elections won’t buy them years of improved living. They just traded their crucial vote with just a week’s worth of cash.
At least I’m glad to see that the youth of this generation knows better and I believe they would make the right choice!
ma jamby, ma roxas, ma legarda, ma de castro, ma estrada, ma fernando, ma villar, ma binay eh lahat yan mga hindot sa buhay ng pinoy.
This is the begining of the end of your political future.
This is just a Smear Campaign para sirain is Jamby who already denied that the bracelets was distributed by her camp. Jamby was there because she is a trusted ally and friend of the Aquino’s. Unlike the Author of this blog CARLO OPLE who is the proud grandson of former Sen. Blas Ople who is the political campaign manager of President Marcos in the 1986 Snap Elections. Meaning one of the mastermind behind the massive cheating of the 1986 polls. Hindi ba kayo nagtataka kung bakit mukhang baboy ang mga OPLE? Dahil pinataba silang baboy ni Marcos nung panahon ng Martial Law.
It really is insulting how some politicians (like Jamby) think how dumb Pinoys are.
It is more insulting how some Pinoys actually fall for cheap tricks like this one.
wow! define thick-face=Jamby Madrigal.
By the way, I’ll be copying some parts of this from your blog, just like you said.thanks for sharing.
What the f***! Jamby?!?! Who’s this CRAP again?!?!
sadly, it was not only madrigal. roxas was also seen shaking hands while following the funeral truck. estrada too was filmed flashing the LABAN sign! too bad they were not struck by lightning!
what are you all upset about? like what you said, your mother of FREEDOM! aquino campaign for freedom and you are all enjoying the freedom of press and speech, you are cursing and the other party was just advertising! interment? freedom does not abide here….cause if there’s a boundary on events, things etc, that is what you call martial law!!! supressed freedom …..now if you want respect,that is another thing. so she isn’t getting it! cause she also slandered other politicians…..no one is faultless!!!may she just RIP!
wrong move, BOY! wrong move
*barfs* she’s sick.
I was just saying.I have great respect for all the possible presidential candidates that didn’t show up of grandstanded during Cory’s wake.Before reading this story,I was commenting on how Jamby precisely was using the wake to grandstand.
Pls.Filipinos,don’t vote for her.
Aside from Happy Feraren, are there other people who also got this bracelet or “campaign” material of Jamby. If there are, pls post so that there will be a bigger proof!
AND you (jamby) expect the yellow movement people to vote for you??? appalled is cotton to the indignity you have so capably shown. for your sake, get your husband to get down on you!!
ey LABAN:
shut up!
Correct! Why did Binay end up as a close friend of Cory when he is corrupt and shrewd?
…and jamby, btw, shame on you to use the burial as your way to collect sympathy and vote. sa tingin mo ba walang pakiramdam ang masang Pinoy? Hindi na kinilabutan!
aww mga politicians sa pinas ang dudumi at ang sasagwa… kelan kaya magbabago ang politics sa atin? may hope pa bang hihintayin? o wala na???
ha ha ha, but that’s the way of politics.
cory was in politics. so is jamby. and i politics, there are no sacred cows.
i say ha ha ha because the situation is so comic. bakit nyo sasabunutan ang sarili nyo sa pagtatanggol ng idol nyo?
kaya hindi umunlad ang pinas–sinasamba natin ang tao, hindi Diyos. nadadala tayo sa mga engrandeng selebrasyon, ke buhay, ke patay, pero wala ang espiritu ng kabutihan at katotohanan sa puso natin. rah-rah-rah lang tayo ng rah-rah-rah sa mga kinokoranahan ng mundo, eh hindi naman natin batid ang BUONG katotohanan ng mga persona nila.
ang hinahangaan ko ke cory, hindi ang pagiging politiko niya kundi ang pagiging matiisin niyang ina, lalo na ke Kris. that is exceptional. sa poltics, naging figurehead lang siya. just like any politician, limitado lang ang power niya. pero in her own words, kung nag-suffer man siya over ninoy’s death, it was a MEANINGFUL SUFFERING, but nung nagdusa siya sa shame that kris heaped upon the family getting entangled with married men and catching std besides, sabi ni cory, bakit siya nag-suffer ng WALANG SAYSAY?
yung bracelet, tanggaping nyo nang tanggapin, tapos, tanggalin nyo yung jamby picture–hindi rin ako in love diyan ke jamby. tapos yung beads, gawin nyong rosary. matuto kayo kung ano at Sino ang papahalagahan sa buhay ninyo para hindi kayo nagkakampi-kampihan para labanan ang kapwa pinoy ninyo. IT’S NEVER WORTH IT. politics lang iyan.
i am so amused watching from the sidelines.
Thank you, Free Radical. The variant I used relates to performance. I believe the yardstick by which candidates aspiring for high office should be measured is performance.
Good intentions not matched with performance are meaningless. If you saw my first comment, I said democracy is all about freedom, which includes freedom to show one’s stupidity. If, as majority of the bloggers believe Jamby acted stupidly (apologies to Pres. Obama commenting on the arrest of Skip Gates) when she sought political mileage during the
Cory funeral, we should be grateful that she exercised that
freedom. It exposed what she is capable of…. or rather incapable of. Ditto for the other candidates who exploited the same occasion for their political ends.
PS– hindi ba ninyo nakita nakakahiya din ang eulogy ni kris sa cathedral? namumulitko na, hindi pa naililibing ang ina. why did she have to say she was the FAVORITE of her mother? that her little son, quoting her mother, is “kris na kris” sa kanyang charming ways? paulit-ulit niyang sinabing paborito siya ng nanay niya, habang ang camera nakatutuok sa mga kapatid. did she have the sensitivity to feel for her siblings? no. sarili lang niya, spoiled brat. tapos hihimasin niya ang mga kapatid nya by “apologizing” for her mistakes that gave their mother the biggest headaches? yun bang funeral mass ang venue para sa ganong mga settlement of domestic squabbles? sasabihin niyang she was making good a promise to her mother to be there for noynoy, at sila lang daw dalwa ang pinaka-nasa posisyong magpatuloy ng sinimulan ng parents nila, kaya, don’t worry noynoy, whatever, I WILL SUPPORT YOU! (read financial support at campaigns). of course, ikaw yata pinakamalaki ang kita from your adoring public. pero doon ba sa libing ng ina dapat i-launch ang kanyang political career? talk about opportunists. but that’s politics. isa pa: bakit siya ang kailangang magbigay ng response on behalf of the family? as filipinos, tradition natin, yung task na yon ay ibinibigay sa PANGANAY na anak. bakit siya, siya lang ba naghihinagpis sa pamilya? each child could have been given 5 minutes–talk about DEMOCRACY! tapos igigiit niya sa eulogy niya na favorite siya nung nasa ataol? makakabangon pa ba yon para pingutin siya? INA YON. maraming anak iyon, nakakahiyang ipangalandakan na me paborito siya! what a thing to say at your mother’s funeral!!! where is the respect there for the dead? pero amuyin nyo, bakit siya ang ginawa ng pamilyang mag-respond? at pinagbasa noong response niya na parang nagbabasa ng movie script? simple, kasi sya yung artista. sanay mag-emote sa harap ng kamera. me appeal sa masa. politics, mga kababayan, politics, di ba? but as i said, ha ha ha… talagang ganyan ang politika. no sacred cows–pati isangsolemn religious ritual, sinapian ng politika. so di ba pareho lang sila?: yung pulitikang namigay ng promo bracelet (shame on you, jamby), o yung anak na pumoposisyon na para tumakbo (“kaya lang underaged pa ako!”) (shame on you kris).
i am so, so, amused.
ang laking pang gagago naman niyan…i really pity our country and the filipino people for having politicians like those of jamby…kelan na ba matatapos ang pang gagahasa nila sa ating bansa……i pity my children because of the leaders we have……
I wish ganito rin kasigasig at kaaktibo ang pagkondina ng mga Pilipino, lalo na ng mga kabataan (esp. cyber-youth) sa kabulukan ng gobyernong Arroyo– korupsyon, kawalan ng lupa, demolisyon, kagutuman, unfair labor practices, kasinungalingan, extra-judicial killings, commercialization ng edukasyon, etc.
chloe:
we alone can tell when..hindi sapat ang pagpindot ditosa keyboard o kahit sa pagboto, ang sama-samang pagkilos ng mamamayan (if you call it people power, yet again), bakit hindi. yan ay legacy ni cory after all, and unti her death, she stood by the power of the people.
EEWW! hindi ka na kinilabutan! shame on you!
kaawa-awa naman itong si jamby… saan kaya niya nilagay utak nya?
reacting to that jamby political gimmick, she just like the others running for any political position this coming elections think so lowly of the filipino voter. im not surprised if all those media campaigns were taken to heart by some 50-60% of the population, the fact that we seat to power actors and actresses who do nothing but earn pogi points is something the whole world remember but not our voters. i don’t even understand how we can overthrow erap for plunder a few years back and is now warmly welcomed in his provinsial sorties. the reason why we have stupid politicians is because a good majority of the voting population are “bayaran”, popularity suckers, and are so hooked up with hero worship. if a good number of presidential runners will truly enter the race, it is highly possible a minority presidet will win, somewhere within the 30+% winning streak. i wish those who can read this will really use their votes wisely next year and perhaps influence our less fortunate brothers and sisters to vote wisely. i wish we could dedicate a moment each day to pray for deliverance from crocodiles and opportunists disguised as PUBLIC SERVANT. they were never public servants in te first place, our taxes pay for their personal expenses, salaries, perks, trips abroad, expensive schools for their children, even their mistresses, bodyguards, etc. poor juan dela cruz! he needs to work the fields, render overtime, hurdle trials in their businesses in an economically-challenged time such as this and be cheated at the same time after a vote of no confidence to the politico who spends the highest this elections. o di ba? pag nagwalis naman kayo, ms happy ferraren pakidamay na ang BIR at register of deeds, bleeding the ordinary citizen dry with exorbitant bribe money to do their jobs well.