{"id":576,"date":"2010-03-22T05:20:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T19:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=576"},"modified":"2010-03-22T05:20:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T19:20:02","slug":"it-is-the-record-of-service-that-truly-matters-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt is the record of service that truly matters\u201d \u2013 Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than the surveys that appear left and right, it is the record of service that truly matters, Senator Richard Gordon said.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon, a presidential aspirant, said that the qualifications and track record of a candidate is what the electorate must look into, adding that the real survey is still on May 10.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon explained that when he ran for Senator in 2004, he was number 29 in the surveys, but after the elections, he placed number five.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He said that the people had chosen him based on what he has done&#8211;as mayor of Olongapo, founding chairman of Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, and secretary of Tourism \u2013 and not on money, pedigree or popularity.<\/p>\n<p>He added that surveys could even lead to &#8220;regulatory capture&#8221; because several rich or powerful individuals, who seek to protect their personal interests and maintain their place in the society, tend to support a candidate who they think has the biggest chance to win based on surveys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not rely on money provided by wealthy businessmen. It is my record of service, my track record and not the surveys that matters.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than the surveys that appear left and right, it is the record of service that truly matters, Senator Richard Gordon said. Gordon, a presidential aspirant, said that the qualifications and track record of a candidate is what the electorate must look into, adding that the real survey is still on May 10. Gordon explained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}