Below is the full Text of Atty. Gigi Reyes’ just-issued STATEMENT AND PUBLIC APOLOGY.
My thanks @Shanna for providing this.
Reyes explains why she resigned irrevocably and discloses that her boss, Juan Ponce Enrile, was supposed to have stated in his Monday privilege speech that he was resigning “IRREVOCABLY” as Senate President but didn’t.
She explains why she resigned abruptly:
My resignation is also due to an honest difference of opinion with my principal, the Hon. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, on how to respond to all these mad and baseless accusations of public fund misuse.
She also discloses that she had “a serious disagreement” with veteran Senate Secretary Emma Lirio Reyes “over her refusal to state the name of the Minority Leader as the one calling for a private audit of the Senate’s funds (which was actually the MOOE of the Secretariat) in the press statement that the Senate President asked her to prepare detailing the Senate’s budget so that the public can be enlightened.”
It seems Gigi Reyes has not only burned her bridges but the adjacent towns as well.
It would seem this is her own version of a senator’s privilege speech.
This photo of Enrile and his Chief-of-Staff Jessica “Gigi” Reyes has gone viral on Facebook. Gigi Reyes sits in the same table with President Noynoy Aquino, Vice-President Jojo Binay and ex-President Erap Estrada during the latter’s birthday dinner.
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SALN, Bank deposits, other Assets…coming soon? From what sources? Outsources! The dread is increasing…++++
@leona
I believe the Ombudsman and tha BIR can motu propio look into these. Another thing, since she signs and co-signs checks is she bonded? Even a barangay treasurer has to be bonded.
@duque…she has a stronger ‘bond’ than a surety bond! Fatal bond!
too little too late
too much to hide
i don’t think they are hiding anything. that’s how arrogant the wife #2 of course with JPE seems to be.
even if they wanted to hide they can’t…
because the whole thing is…
too much to hide.
If Enrile resigned as senate president, Jackie becomes a dead meat. Sorry, Gigi. Still, blood is thicker.
thicker than sperm?
huh?
Number one lesson for a mistress. Never force your lover to choose between you and his own blood. Because the consequence would be disastrous in the end.
It ain’t over until the lady with the fat wallet sings.
Paragraph 6, 2nd statement:
“I had no right to speak ill of any Senator while I served in the Senate.” (in other words, now that she’s out, it’s open season)
Her last words:
“I believe what the public really hungers for is the truth about the officials they elected and how their money is spent or wasted. The people now believe that the Senate stinks…It is sad but I so agree. It is time to look for where the stink is actually coming from.” (with her help?)
…open season for counter-barrage? Blackboard please…for casualties coming!
See my comment below. Nothing wrong with her doing her rant as a private citizen. I think her apology was sincere. I think she also sincerely also believes Senator Cayetano is a hypocrite. Why can’t she say so?
By the way, I think her rant makes the whole scene rather tawdry, and diminishes the stature of Senator Enrile to that of neighborhood gossip subject. He looks foolish getting in this mess. Not at all dignified.
believed mrp, believe gigi…:)
rewrite that last sentence: Must I tread the same line as everyone else to obtain your respect for an opinion?
That’s good to know. You may pick up that I don’t like being put into other people’s boxes. They always feel like coffins, a little tight and dark. Anyway, I’ll smile about your remark now . . . thanks.
hahaha, i’m teasing…
I’m not sure the stature of the Senate President is that high to begin with. Not for those who know the atrocities of Martial Law, that is.
Alam pala nya bakit kung may delikadesa sya:
1. Dapat nuon pa binunyag na nya
2. Dapat nuon pa umalis na sya kung di nya kaya isiwalat.
Pero kailangan pa ang isang speech ni P. para masabi nya na may alam pala sya. Ano ibig sabihin?
1. Kasangkot sya kaya di sya pwede magsalita
2. Takot sya sa boss nya (pero hindi sa tunay na nagpapasweldo sa kanya… tayo yun)
Agree much!
Suspetsa ko sa kampanya para sa eleksyon nito babawian si Cayetano at Trillanes. Siya ang magiging demolition man este woman. Kaya malakas loob mag-resign. Baka may nag-aabang na papel na sa UNA.
Abangan ang susunod na kabanata. :)
@curveball,
mali kasi ang “principal” niya.
hindi dapat si Enrile ang principal niya kungdi ang taumbayan.
I agree with you.
hehehe, ganito ang basa ko. a certification is a tool to loot…
After seeing the surprise b’day video and her picture sitting on a table with the pres, vp, senate pres, and an ex-pres, I love how she says her job is punishing and thankless.
sure, punished in bed waiting for hours w/o coming to the zenith, thankless of course…just say “datan na si manong.”
You guys are giving me images I can’t contain to share.
Mmmm…Sounds familiar when your mouth is full.
Mmmm…maybe if she kept her mouth full, courtesy of bowing to her boss, then she did not put themselves in a messy situation with her mouthful. Which is less messy, the former which is icky sticky with the sticky…or the latter which yucky mucky?
So lesson bitches, do what you do best with your mouth full, and keep it that way.
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@reader, didn’t it sound like a Martyr personified?
i gotta feeling…
Mmmm.
Mmmm.
Mmmm.
Wow, what a kickass writer.
With all due respect of course to Raissa, Joe & Maud.
ahahahahahaha, Maude wants your e-mail address, suspects you might be hot.
That’s funny… I suspect the same.
there are some things better left undone.
there are some things better left unsaid.
there are some things better left unwritten.
but what is best left alone, are public funds going to undeserving officials.
her principal is the public and the public must say good riddance!
some observations:
1. she claims has no influence over jpe yet she could suggest that he irrevocably resigns. (where is the speech?)
2. who is the 24th senator?
3. no categorical denial of rumored relationship.
4. lastly, she reads this blog, or perhaps, have been informed of the sentiments of the CPM’ers.
@sir/mam mafe, si attorney BANGAW NA NAKATUNGTONG SA KALABAW ang IPOKRITA!!
She calls Cayetano by his first name? She used “hypocritical” in describing Cayetano? Is this all? Can I go back to the shopping channel please.
She said, as I heard on the radio link “hypocrites!’…not ‘critical’…hehehe.
Why is everyone calling this an apology? She basically defended herself and blamed everyone else in the senate.
That’s what I also think. Have a look at the following statements from Paragrph 4:
“Actually, I was reacting to Sen. Alan Cayetano because as I stated, he had received similar checks from the Office of the Senate President in previous Christmases, and at that time, only Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago had returned the equivalent amount of P250,000. I therefore found his remarks that these were questionable and irregular very puzzling and yes, hypocritical. I really ought to have kept that feeling to myself.”
If that’s not still calling Cayetano a hypocrite then I don’t know what is.
I disagree, she is correct. The Senators are hypocrites.
If you guys don’t know it by now, then I’m not surprise why we are still a third world country.
Her fault was she rub it in.
What irked Cayetano was she acted like bitch, what Cayetano’s naivete was how did he expect her to act, if she is a bitch then she will act like a bitch!
Well, if she acted like a bitch because she is a bitch, at least she’s not a hypocrite.
Actually, I agree with that. The word I used is “tawdry”, which is like hanging everyone’s personal laundry out in the professional place of work, including those skimpy tong briefs that Senator Enrile wears (ahahahahaha, that’s a joke, I actually have no idea what he wears). The resignation letter indeed diminished the dignity of the senate.
It’s not the resignation letter. It’s a Statement and Public Apology as per Raissa’s Intro above.
I read it differently. She actually believes he is a hypocrite, but as a senate official she is not allowed to make such personal observations in public. So she is sorry for committing ethical lapses. Once she has resigned, she is no longer held to the same ethical standards. She can speak her truths. I don’t see the problem with that. Why should she now not have the right to rant and emote with the best of us?
Of course she’s free to rant all she wants. But it’s not about that. The point is whether it is a real apology at all. The ranting is simply out of place.
This is how it looks:
I’m sorry I called you a hypocrite. By the way I still think you are a hypocrite.
It’s a small quibble. I think she apologized for commiting ethics violations, not for calling him a hypocrite. And I read her as professionally sincere about that.
Depends on where you read, I suppose:
“2. More importantly, I committed a serious ethical breach in making the remark: “They are hypocrites”. I am sorry . . .”
I think she recognizes her professional lapse and sincerely regrets it. I don’t mind if y’all think otherwise. I’ll at least respect her for that, and for not pulling a Sotto.
Ok, let’s use the direct quote:
“I profusely apologize to the Hon. Senator and Minority Floor Leader, Alan Peter Cayetano for my disrespectful and offensive statements and overbearing tenor as I was interviewed on DZMM Teleradyo last Monday, January 21, 2013.”
The statement in question: “They are hypocrites.”
She did what Sotto could not find within himself to do, and I think it is also important to draw that distinction.
Exactly!! What apology?
Tapos na ang Boksing…
She nailed the coffin…
Talo nya pa si Cristina. I wonder kung si Cristina ay natutuwa ngayon dahil yung publiko ay naghusga na?
I think this woman is way way out of line. KARMA ito sa kanya ng wife ni Enrile who has been on the sidelines all this years at ang hiwalay ngayon na husband niya. Truly GOD moves in mysterious ways. Sumobra na kasi ang power ni gigi reyes sa senado and She thought matatago nya ang open sekret na ito forever– pero kasi GOD is watching and there retributions waiting for her and Enrile. Sa laki ng wealth and prestige na natamo nya from Enrile, dapat nagpaka humble sya at nagpa kumbaba. KARMA!
As fast as the cat to flee, so it was her tail that fails to clear her way.
Two discrepancies so far I noticed.
– There are only 23 sitting senators of the 15th Congress, who is the 24th if Gigi Reyes is the 25th?
– ‘COA says MOOE not a discretionary fund’ (from newsinfo inquirer net/345991/coa-says-mooe-not-a-discretionary-fund)
On Gigi Reyes’ abrupt resignation. As follows:
“My resignation is also due to an honest difference of opinion with my principal, the Hon. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, on how to respond to all these mad and baseless accusations of public fund misuse.”
She was ‘jokingly’ addressed as the ’25th’ senator during the period Pres. Aquino was a senator…there were 24 senators at the time. Agree?
Actually, Gigi said that out of deference with BongBong’s Chief of Staff.
ahh ganuon ba iyon? eh di consuelo de bobo na lang na hindi niya na self promote by 1 higher place.
12 senate seats are up for grabs this May.
And oh Yes, agree.
Happy? Ala Juan, gusto ko happy ka.
:lol:
@Mel…she didn’t mind the jokes…what for? She’ iz’ the Queen on the throne. Look at the photo 50th Bday, she’s nearest to the kamera! I suspect the kamera-man was going to take a shot on the right of PNoy but the Queen said ‘No! Here on my left side! ” Thus, that shot.
In the light of Senator Minority Floor Leader Alan Peter Cayetano’s recent privilege speech, focus should be on anomalies, fraud, unequal dispositions or disbursements of appropriated funds, practice of liquidation of funds, misrepresentations of disbursements, probity checks and balances, and the like.
Questions to ask, are there juggling of funds, or misappropriations of funds? What rules are there to liquidate funds for another purpose than that conceived?
Example; ‘COA says MOOE not a discretionary fund’ (from newsinfo inquirer net/345991/coa-says-mooe-not-a-discretionary-fund) of comment #4.
…the truth or real – “The people now believe that the Senate stinks…It is sad but I so agree. ” Atty. Reyes’.
The people are mad and they are agree!
maraming alam si atty reyes sa pag-disburse ni “hapi ka” ng pera ng bayan. baka iyon ang sinasabi nyang difference of opinion. baka hindi nakikinig si jpe sa advice kung papaano gagastahin ang pondo. tanong at haka-haka, sabay na…
…”I believe what the public really hungers for is the truth about the officials they elected and how their money is spent or wasted.” Atty. Reyes’.
“…It is time to look for where the stink is actually coming from.” Atty. Reyes’.
Yes. The people have found it long ago where the stink is actually coming from. Not from the people but from the public officials elected including your and our senators!
You agree. The people are agree.
“Why are the others silent when the Senate President is being accused of being a thief?” – galunggong.
Oo nga naman. Nasaan na iyong mga christmas bonus teasers? Who gratuitously benefited from the SP.
dili alam ng mga pipitchugging mga senadors, mas malaki pa pala ang bonus na nakubra sa sarili. (biro lang)
I find the juxtaposition of Atty. Reyes commenting Sen. Trillanes not having to “sweat it out” to be followed in the next paragraph with “in my humble opinion” quite interesting.
It was a very well composed letter. I will give her that. Some of what she said may even be true. Goodbye Atty. Gig. Good riddance.
if i am a voter in philippines i never votes for this gyus trillanes and the cayetanos they are not there father who really a champion of the people i wish that they dont win this time…
Hindi kaya meron kamaganak sya dito dati?
O kaya nagbabalik pero sa ibang katauhan naman?
Walking Dead.
Season…
ang hirap kasi kay manong johnny ang hilig mag bintang sa mga patay na..una sinisi nya si Favian Ver na nagpakalaty ng balita na ang anak nyang si Jackie ang pumatay kay alfie anido, ngayon pinagbintangan na naman nya si Rene Cayetano na may utang sa kanya ng 37 million…di ba may kasabihan..na ang taong malapit ng mamatay ay laging bukang bibig ang mga taong patay na din…hmmm katakot
di ba sabi ko noon magpapalit lang ng pangalan or id? eh di tama akko. HETO KA NA NAMAN!!NANUNUKSO NUKSO!!
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So you were the number one commenter on this post by Raissa. You anticipated it well. Congratulations.
BTW are you by any chance connected to somebody who hates Filipinos so much?
same M.O. and “they” are 2 here present…
Kung sya nga ito o kamaganak nya. Akala ko ba galit na galit sya sa mga brown skinned/maitim at pango na pinoy?
Bakit sya balik ng balik dito?
parang jueteng yan, mahirap iwaksi. he he he
@danny…U are not in the ‘Pines? Is there voting where U are now? …just curious. Btw, a “wish” is for something good to happen! You meant “I want”…
you sound like the late MRP…
you resurrected yourself as LeoSanMIg – LSM?
same writing style and english-usage?
the late MRP?
@chit navarro: I was just trying to ape danny’s style of ‘writing and english-usage.’ I hope you’re not getting paranoid on account of my name. Good night!
bys and bys i will also votes for bro eddie so whens the mayhems starts theres a mans of god to prays overs the dead bodys…
lol, @LeoSM. I wills votes for thems two. I wants the Pinas to gos downs to the gutters, to the septic tanks and to the sewers. I wills writes their names 100x. Oh, wait, it’s PCOS now, so I wills shades each of the letters of their names.
Lols!
@danny, bakit ayaw mo sa MATINONG SENADOR? gusto mo yung mga NANGANGALUNYA, MANLOLOKO, MANGUNGURAKOT NA SENADORES? MAGBAGO NA TAYONG MGA BOTANTE PARA TUMINO ANG ATING BAYAN. AYAW MO BA GUMISING SA KATOTOHANAN?
I will cancel out your vote because I’m voting for Trillanes and the Cayetanos.
She may have resigned as Chief of Staff but I doubt if her influence and power will ever change
count me in Art… I will not just vote Trillanes and the Cayetanos, I will even campaign for them, using my own money!
please count me as your humble alalay when u start campaigning sir/mam @jambaki.