SUPPORTERS of Manila Mayor and Aksyon Demokratiko standard bearer Isko Moreno yesterday launched the “Bus Ni Isko,” a 20-day road campaign initiative to improve voter awareness.
“We believe in Isko Domagoso’s platform of government. He has the track record of turning Manila into a vibrant city once more,” Jon Pennington, of the Isko Tayo Kabataan (ITK), said in a statement issued yesterday after the launch of the Switch! Iskyo Na Tayo! Movement at the Quezon Memorial Circle.
Pennington said they want to convince more youths to support Moreno’s presidential candidacy.
Under the initiative, youth volunteers will travel by bus to various provinces to raise awareness and help drum up support for the presidential bid of Moreno. One bus will tour Luzon while another will travel to Visayas and Mindanao.
The youth volunteers will conduct free t-shirt printing as well as mount audio-visual shows in each stop to convince the electorate to support Moreno.
Last month, Moreno said instead of “hakot” crowds, his team will stick to their strategy of reaching out to the electorate to explain their platform of governance and to know the real situation of ordinary Filipinos, particularly in far-flung areas.
Buoyed by the enthusiastic crowds that greeted his recent campaign sorties, Moreno said reaching out to the people, instead of them going to meet his team, would be the main part of their campaign strategy more than 40 days before the May 9 elections.
The 47-year-old Manila mayor explained that going directly to the people has the added benefit of affording him and his running mate, Willie Ong, as well the three Aksyon Demokratiko senatorial candidates-Samira Gutoc, Carl Balita and Jopet Sison- as well as guest candidate John Castriciones, the chance to know first-hand the needs of the ordinary people.
He said his team needed all the support they could get considering that the other presidential contenders have the resources and connections to support their campaigns.
The Switch! Iskyo Na Tayo! Movement is composed of representatives of various labor unions, transport groups, community organizations, professionals, and volunteer groups.
They demanded that the Marcoses pay the P203 billion estate tax that had been due them for decades.
