As a leader in your present and past beats, I am coming to you for help for the organization we both love to call NPC.

Regardless of whether you have committed to other candidates, may I respectfully ask you to consider my request for help for me to win this election in order for me to be able to institute my program of actions in giving prestige to our organization that is suffering from credibility before its members and the public.

The following are my program of actions:

1. Organizing NPC Institute of Journalism within the first six (6) months of my term if I win — the objectives of this are (a) to give a big boost to the Club in terms of credibility that it is intending to reclaim its reputation as the genuine bastion of press freedom, (b) to provide an apparatus by which the children of hard-pressed journalists can have a college education free of tuition, which program is better than giving P5,000 to only a few chosen children of NPC members adopted as scholars, and (c) to develop a reputation for the club to be known as a group of the finest journalists in the country.

2. Purging NPC membership of non-journalists and instituting a new requirement for membership that is for an applicant to undergo an examination and an interview aside from strict requirement of documents to prove he or she is a practicing journalist — the objective is to develop among members, particularly the seniors, that trust in the NPC as one they can proudly say they belong to.

3. Out-reaching to all other national media organizations, such as NUJP, PAPI and PPI, and forging closer alliances with provincial or community press organizations — the objective is to improve the public relations of the club before their eyes, which will, in turn, bring out a positive message to the public in general, and to be able to have a better chance at achieving common goals.

4. Instituting outreach programs to all college and high school journalists — the purpose is to solidify positive belief in NPC as an organization of good and respectable journalists by showing actual proof that the public can see through the actual summits, conventions and seminars to be led or participated in by the Club.

5. Making bolder the actions in helping the fight for justice for fallen journalists — the purpose is the purpose is to help press for the wheels of justice to keep on turning, particularly for those 32 who died in the Ampatuan massacre.

6. Making bolder the campaign for the decriminalization of libel — the purpose is to get a better chance of congressional approval of a new law making libel as a civil case only with caps as to the amount of damages that can be sought by any plaintiff.

7. Making bolder the campaign for the scrapping of right-of-reply bill — the purpose is to keep the practice of journalism from any additional repression schemes, intended or otherwise.

These tasks are doable for the two-year term that I may serve if I am given your mandate. I may add more program of actions as I continue my campaign.

In the meantime, I am requesting you to give my plea your hard-and-long look before deciding to vote and campaign with passion for these causes to all NPC members you know.

Should I win with or without your support, please consider this as my contract with you that you can hold me responsible later for breach, negligently or intently.