Robinhood's temper tantrums

By Tita C. Valderama

Oct 03, 2022 12:03 am

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THE senator who has played the role of a gangster in several movies demanded respect from an undersecretary of foreign affairs whom he described as a 'barumbado' during a budget hearing at the Senate on Friday.

It takes one to know one, some would say. But watching a recording of the hearing on YouTube, it was Sen. Robinhood Padilla who was rude to Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Eduardo Jose de Vega, not the other way around.

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