Institutionalized irregularity | The Manila Times
REP. Danilo Fernandez of Santa Rosa City, Laguna province, got his name in the papers again this past week — which I am certain was his sole objective, since nothing of what he said to attract that media attention actually made any sense — with another attack on the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), this time over a particular condition in its invitation to bid for 1,800 megawatts (MW) of electricity supply. As with his previous headline-grabbing moment, which was a harebrained rant about how Meralco's one large franchise ought to be broken up into three, Fernandez's latest canard is just as ...