Poe vows not to resort to black propaganda

Senator Grace Poe has promised not to resort to black propaganda despite absorbing plenty of it with a month away before the 2016 election campaign.
Poe, one of the leading presidential aspirants, made this reaction after learning that a group of public school teachers in Cavite received information that Poe and her presidential candidate Senator Francis ‘Chiz’ Escudero have been blocking bills aimed at increasing salaries of teachers.
”I will not resort to black propaganda. I will maintain clean campaign,” Poe told a group of media who attended a Christmas party she and Escudero hosted Monday night.
The lady senator suspects that a group of individuals linked to other national candidates are out to pull her down by spreading lies.
”Of course, I will not do that to our public school teachers specially now that they need more support from the government,” Poe said.
In fact, Poe has filed a bill seeking to raise the minimum pay of public school teachers and nonteaching personnel in the elementary and secondary levels.
Under Senate Bill No. 2310 she filed in August 2014, Poe is pushing a minimum wage hike of public elementary and high school teachers from Php18,549 to Php25,000 a month, and from Php9,000 to Php15,000 a month for nonteaching personnel.
Aside from black propaganda, Poe is facing disqualification cases at the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
Last Friday, the Comelec First Division voted 2-1 to favor the disqualification cases filed by former senator Francisco Tatad and two college professors Antonio Contreras and Amado Valdez who questioned the senator’s citizenship.
The First Division made the decision eleven days after the commission’s Second Division favored a petition of Atty. Estrella Elamparo who seeks to disqualify Poe on the ground that she did not meet the 10-year residency requirement for presidential aspirant.
”I felt beaten badly but I will not give,” Poe said, adding she intends to elevate the case to the Supreme Court (SC) if the Comelec en banc will uphold the two divisions’ rulings. (PNA)