Your Congressmen: Who’s the Richest of Them All?

In case you are wondering how much your incumbent Congressman is worth, you are lucky because we have the figures for you. However, please note that these figures may have changed because they are based on the Congressmen’s 2004 Statements of Assets and Liabilities (SAL) filed during the beginning of their current congressional term. Still, we have to make do with these figures in the absence of more recent SALs from our Representatives.

So who’s the richest Congressman from the Cordilleras? Apayao Rep. Elias Bulut Jr. with a net worth of P21.7 million. And the poorest? Assassinated Abra Congressman Luis Bersamin with a net worth of “only” P2.45 million.

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Cordillera Election Roundup: Run Lola Run, Here Comes John

Update (07 April 2007): The list of candidates for the Kalinga gubernatorial race which you will find below should no longer include Rommel Diasen; the incumbent Kalinga vice governor who is gunning for the gubernatorial seat in this coming elections has been killed today. You can read the details here.

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Bus Conversations and Introducing Obla: The Series

Are you the kind of guy who pays no attention to the stranger seated beside you in a bus? Well, I’m kind of like that. Last December however, while riding a bus to Baguio, I got curious when my seat mate took out his digital camera and started taking photos of the passing scenes. Because I have been planning to buy a digicam for the longest time, I asked him about his camera hoping that I would get some advice on the reliable ones to purchase. It turns out that he received the camera as a gift so he didn’t have much advice on what brand to buy, the best place to buy one, how much to spend, and all those things that we think about when we buy something that we hope will be with us for a long time.

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