A quote card circulating on Facebook (FB), YouTube and TikTok claims that dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo challenged Sen. Risa Hontiveros to investigate the alleged blank items in the bicameral report of the 2025 national budget.
This is fake. Guo’s legal counsel has disowned the statement attributed to her.
Posted on FB on Jan. 27, the bogus quote reads in part:
“With all due respect Senator Risa Hontiveros, I hope you will do the same investigation like what you did to me, on the controversial bicam GAA ‘Blank Entries’ para ma-justify na talagang pro-Filipino ka. Pera po ng taumbayan ang pinag-uusapan dyan. Sa akin, issue ng citizenship ko lang po at mga alleged connections sa pogo, pero halos balatan niyo ako ng buhay sa Senado na parang nagnakaw ako ng pera sa gobyerno.
(With all due respect Senator Risa Hontiveros, I hope you will do the same investigation like what you did to me, on the controversial bicam GAA ‘Blank Entries’ so you can justify that you are really pro-Filipino. It is public funds we are talking about. In my case, it’s just my citizenship and alleged connections to pogo, but you almost skinned me alive in the Senate as if I stole money from the government).”
A day later, the quote card was reposted in a YouTube video with this headline: “RISA HONTIVEROS HINAMON ni ALICE GUO ILABAS MO TAPANG mo sa MA-ANOMALYANG BICAM REPORT/TAMEME LANG (Risa Hontiveros was challenged by Alice Guo. Bring out your bravery on the anomalous bicam report/gobsmacked)!
This is fabricated. David and Jamilla Law Offices, Guo’s legal representative, denied this in a statement in a Jan. 27 FB post:
“It has come to our attention that a certain Facebook account bearing the name Mayor Alice Guo, posted a statement purporting to be our client, Alice Leal Guo… We unequivocally deny the false and malicious posting and encourage everyone to exercise caution in spreading false and unverified information.”
Alice Guo’s official FB page was taken down in July after Hontiveros criticized her for being active on social media instead of attending the Senate investigation into her involvement in illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators. Guo is now detained at the Pasig City Jail.
Posted by FB page Think Outside The Box – Variety Stories and three other users, the bogus quote gained over 1,072 reactions, 92 comments and 96 shares. YouTube channel SHOWBIZ CHIKA-DORO and TikTok user @donquixote297 reposted the graphic which received 16,458 and 935,091 interactions, respectively.
The video emerged five days after Hontiveros said she did not see any blank lines when she refused to sign the bicameral report on the budget. This followed allegations by anti-administration personalities that the 2025 budget had blank entries, and therefore was unconstitutional.
