Senator Loren Legarda, a voters’ favorite in every senatorial election she ever ran in, is not exactly the darling of some crowds these days.
The former news anchor, who finished first in the 1998 and 2007 polls, and second in the 2013 and 2022 elections (to Grace Poe and Robin Padilla, respectively), is being condemned (even disowned) by some quarters. For having joined the DDS senators to oust her former allies in the now-minority, she’s called a political butterfly; for comforting a weepy fellow senator while facing the camera at just the perfect angle, she’s dismissed as pretentious and performative.
Now, she’s begrudged for making references to Senator Francis Pangilinan’s infamous “Noted!” remark from — ready your shocked emojis, kids — 22 years ago.
Hello! I’m Miriam Grace Go, Rappler’s managing editor. Let me fill you in on what stirred up Legarda last Tuesday, May 26, during the Senate’s plenary session.
In 2004, I was in touch with political operators from both the camps of then-president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her strongest rival, actor and businessman Fernando Poe Jr.
