MAR SHOULD BARE FUNDING SOURCE FOR CAMPAIGN!

Before anything else, Mar Roxas should reveal his funding source for his campaign as an independent senatorial bet. Here’s why:

As I had written in a related blog yesterday, Mar has NOT YET convincingly proven that he is neither involved or is a beneficiary of the anomalies and questionable events that had occurred during his stint as Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) secretary.

Like the P1.3 billion overprice in the purchase of police vehicles, the absence of a detailed accounting of ‘Yolanda’ funds turned over to him for the victims and his total inaction on the illegal numbers game jueteng.

I am aware that Mar is a scion of the known old rich clan Aranetas.  But think about these, people:

I consulted two people, a strategist of a politician and a former politician.  They both told me that for an independent Senate bid nowadays, P250 to P300 million SHOULD BE THE BAREST MINIMUM BUDGET of the candidate. And they emphasized that it may NOT EVEN BE ENOUGH, since it would be a nationwide campaign.

Now, anybody correct me if I’m wrong: Since he lost in the presidential polls in 2016, Never has it been reported in media that Mar has had any huge business/es that earn tens or hundreds of millions of pesos, or dollars monthly or yearly.  Neither has it been known that Mar has had any multi-million or billion business transaction.

And an immensely successful but perennially low profile businessman who knows the Aranetas personally told me that the clan isn’t as rich as they used to be in the ‘60s until the ‘80s.  He expressed serious doubt that the Aranetas can still readily allocate or spend P300 million or more just for a political campaign with no clear signs of a SURE WIN!

So again, Mar, where will the money come from? Anybody’s welcome to comment.

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