I leave it to those concerned the launching of a hate campaign against me based on imagined and manufactured allegations. Please get the facts straig… - Francis Escudero

Humble but not humbled in defeat. Manny was, is, and will always be the better man vs Floyd. My hats off to Manny!

This is where I would like to bring up the subject of equity. Economic statistics show that although there has been GDP growth over the past 23 years, the number of families living in poverty has increased - up to about 5 million families or 27.6 million people. This demonstrates that benefits of that growth have accrued to the wealthy. The rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. This is clearly unacceptable to all of us.

The government does not have the mandate to create jobs. This should be the function of the private sector but the government should provide policy support for businesses to generate permanent or long-term jobs.