Teodoro vows to lead a "Positive Campaign"

He will leave the mudslinging and brickbats to his rivals and embark on a “positive campaign” of political reconciliation and uplifting the Filipinos’ morale, administration candidate Gilbert Teodoro said Tuesday as he sets off the start of the three-month campaign for his presidential bid.
In pinstriped green and white polo and jeans, Teodoro showed up at the Lakas-Kampi headquarters along EDSA at noon with running mate actor Edu Manzano and four of his six senatorial candidates.
He faced the media for a news conference then led a convoy of vehicles in a motorcade to the Ynares Gym in Antipolo City, where he would fire his opening campaign salvo.
Aboard a coaster, Teodoro waved to onlookers awaiting the motorcade. The road leading to Antipolo City where his vehicles would pass by are spruced with streamers and posters of administration candidates.
Teodoro’s senatorial slate is composed of Ramon Revilla Jr., Lito Lapid, Ramon Guico, Raul Lambino, Rey Langit, and Silvestre Bello III.
Asked how his campaign would be different from his rivals, he said he would lead a “positive campaign” focusing on “reforms, how to uplift the morale of the Filipinos, and genuine political reconciliation.”
“To me, it should be a positive campaign, we have to uplift the moral of the Filipinos, lend a helping hand, it has to be positive, that’s why it’s ‘Sulong Pilipinas,’” he said.
He said his common message would be for the people to “help each other overcome obstacles and grab opportunities through institutional governance, through trying to help each other, the ordinary citizen and the government and genuine political reconciliation.”
What is needed, he said, is reform based on stability and an experienced leader who can set aside political differences and genuinely reconcile all political factions so that the country can focus on opportunities for growth.
Teodoro said he is prepared for the worst intrigues and scheming in this campaign, saying he feels he has seen them all.
Asked what he would find the most difficult in the three-month campaign period, he said it would be the physical exhaustion and the separation from his family.
Teodoro also introduced journalist and television host Mike Toledo as his spokesman.