Remembering Senator Butz Aquino
- Boss and Friend
Dr Abe V Rotor
Consultant (1989-1993), Committee on Food and Agriculture
Senator Butz Aquino, chairman
Senate of the Philippines
Author with Senator Butz
Outstanding accomplishments as senator may be gleamed from the bills he sponsored and co-sponsored, namely:
- Cooperative Law of the Philippines
- Magna Carta for Filipino Farmers
- Seed Industry Law of the Philippines
- Law Banning Muro-ami Fishing
- Law Establishing Carabao Research and Training Centers ()Co-sponsor with then Senator Erap Estrada)
- Nagpandayan, Nueva Ecija (Cooperative)
- Tagudin, Ilocos Sur (Cooperative)
- Santiago, Isabela (Farmers Forum)
- Samboan, Cebu (Ban on Muro-ami fishing)
- Vigan, Ilocos Sur (Guest speaker)
- Concepcion, Tarlac (Butz hometown)
- Tel-Aviv, Israel (alone, sponsored by the Senate Committee)
- Helping a helpless motorist
- Butz double in a town's restaurant
- Endless requests into the night
- Defending the NFA
- Visit to Israel
- Representing Butz in a farmers' forum in Cotabato City
- Outdoor dinner
- 13 in a Helicopter at night (Siquijor to Cebu)
- Forced landing on a helicopter at Santa Fe Pass in Nueva Vizcaya
- Kamaro (fried mole cricket), anyone?
- Butz and Young Marlo (author's son) on a ranch in Batangas
- Driving at racetrack speed to Tagudin, Ilocos Sur