Punggol East By-Election -- WP Lee Li Lian
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Originally posted by SevenEleven:
political suicide by RP
A reader just brought this to our attention. In relation to a critic on the Reform Party FB wall who questioned if Kenneth Jeyaretnam’s participation in the BE was political suicide, the RP FB admin replied:
“Maybe you should stop and think. Why would an intelligent man and his CEC make that decision. Maybe in the long run all you vote riggers will turn out to look stupid. Just a thought.”
http://i.imgur.com/T1JIC.png
Maybe it is worried that out of sight and out of mind
RP started off very promising with the attraction of some very talented new blood but due to some disputes, these new talents left RP.
Since then RP is on the decline, RP might lose its election deposit in the by-election.
While SDA Desmond Lim is very likely to lose his election again with an even lower 4.45% votes in the by- election.
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Two rally sites named for by-election
Two open fields in Punggol East have been named as rally sites for the by-election.
The Singapore Police Force said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon that election meetings may be held outdoors from Jan 17 to Jan 24 between 7am and 10pm at the open fields in front of Blk 128CPunggol Field Walk and Blk 183C Rivervale Crescent.
Details of rallies permitted to be held tomorrow will be released when applications close later this afternoon.
The police said it seeks the cooperation of partipants to “leave the sites in an orderly and peaceful manner at the end of each election meeting.”
“Police will not hesitate to take firm action against any person who commits any offence at an election meeting or whose behaviour may lead to public order problems,” it said.
Members of the public are strongly encouraged to take public transport as traffic congestion can be expected at the roads leading to the rally sites during this period.
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got free chicken rice this time?
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Originally posted by SevenEleven:
political suicide by RP
A reader just brought this to our attention. In relation to a critic on the Reform Party FB wall who questioned if Kenneth Jeyaretnam’s participation in the BE was political suicide, the RP FB admin replied:
“Maybe you should stop and think. Why would an intelligent man and his CEC make that decision. Maybe in the long run all you vote riggers will turn out to look stupid. Just a thought.”
http://i.imgur.com/T1JIC.png
Here, allow me:
This isn't just shooting oneself in the foot, man.
This is called planting a landmine and stepping on it.
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Between M1 and RP, i trust M1 more.
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Originally posted by ditzy:
Between M1 and RP, i trust M1 more.
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KJ seems wantin to retire from politics after this
this is just stupid political self destruction
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hey, what happen to the bigbear who wants to contest for PE?
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Obviously, he doesn't exist. His facebook name doesn't even match the 2 independent candidates. So WTF?
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still having kopi at ISD
reported him for the flooding tt morning
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Then his kopi can fill an olympic sized pool.
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Originally posted by M the name:
Taiwanese stage big protest against govt
They demand Premier's ouster, end to media control by pro-China firms
By LEE SEOK HWAI
TAIWAN CORRESPONDENTTAIPEI - Up to 150,000 Taiwanese took to the streets of Taipei yesterday in protest against the "useless" administration of President Ma Ying-jeou amid lacklustre economic growth and misgivings over the island's increasingly cosy ties with China.
In the largest anti-government protest since Mr Ma's re-election last year, they demanded the resignation of Premier Sean Chen, whose Cabinet has proposed or introduced a slew of unpopular policies, including a capital gains tax and an electricity rate hike.
The protesters also demanded a halt to the sale of the island's most popular media outlets to pro-China businessmen as they made their way through the main roads of Taipei beginning at 2pm.
"Sorry, I didn't win the election, and now the people are suffering," opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen, who remains popular despite her loss to Mr Ma in last year's presidential election, said on a stage in front of the presidential office where the protesters gathered at the end of the march.
Taiwan's growth slowed to about 0.95 per cent last year, according to local think-tank estimates, while unemployment remains stuck at over 4 per cent.
"President Ma ought to be ashamed for forcing the people onto the streets as a result of his incompetence," said Ms Tsai. She was the headliner of a who's who list of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) stalwarts, including former premier Frank Hsieh and former vice-president Annette Lu, who turned up at the rally led by party chairman Su Tseng-chang. Seen as a likely candidate for the 2016 election, Mr Su called on Mr Ma to step down.
"We want a new Cabinet, new lawmakers, and a new President," he told the crowd after listing a litany of problems, including high unemployment, a growing income gap, rising costs of living, and what he called a monopoly of the media by pro-China businesses.
A consortium of four Taiwanese companies is seeking to buy Hong Kong-based Next Media Group's print and television business in Taiwan, including the top-selling Apple Daily and Next Magazine, for a total of NT$17.5 billion (S$740.6 million).
One of the businessmen, Want Want China Times Group president Tsai Shao-chung, also owns China Television, satellite channel CtiTV and newspapers Want Daily and China Times. All are seen as friendly to Beijing.
Mr Ma's ruling Kuomintang last Friday rejected an anti-monopoly media law proposed by the DPP, calling it hasty and ill thought-out.
Said Mr Su: "Step by step, the Chinese Communist government is invading our island, our households, our brains."
Mr Ma, whose popularity has dropped to 13 per cent, spent the day marking the 25th anniversary of the death of former President Chiang Ching-kuo. He declined to comment on the rally when asked.
But presidential spokesman Fan Chiang Tai-chi said last night that the Ma administration was already working to address the issues highlighted at the protest. He called on the opposition to stop the "internal struggle" and offer constructive solutions instead.
Top of the news, The Straits Times, Monday, January 14 2013
Ma Ying Jiu xia tai!
Don't follow pinky la, pinky a failure!
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
he is fifi's idol so must have hairy legs.
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Originally posted by M the name:
Your mean the Independent candidate Ooi Boon Ewe ? He is one of the "calefare" contender who always appear whenever there is an election, in fact this is not the first time he "paiseh" himself, it happen even in international television programme : http://youtu.be/HVUjwRN8UGkAnother one of his kinds is Zeng Guoyan, those who follow the development of GE 2011 know what heroic action he did.
i am referring to miw.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
i hope the idiots of RP and SDA get single digit number of votes
it's a sad thing about these elections.. it's too bad that one candidate will win.. i wish we could have a system where they all lose
don't need election if they all lose.
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Mayb be they should on nomination day announce the koh as the one taking over la.
anyway, he sure to win. sinkingporeans love doctors to be MP. They only look on the outside. They are damn superficial. Never want to learn the lesson. -
For SDP, common sense prevailed...belatedly
NEWS ANALYSIS
By JEREMY AU YONG
ASSISTANT POLITICAL EDITOR
AS OF yesterday afternoon, less than 24 hours before Nomination Day, all signs still pointed to the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) becoming one corner of a five-cornered fight in Punggol East.Just hours earlier, it had sent a representative to the Elections Department to pick up political donation certificates. And for one week prior, it went through all the motions of a party intending to contest. It did a walkabout, distributed fliers, called press conferences, and even went through the normal dance with the media where it would hint but not confirm its choice of candidate.
Even after the Workers' Party (WP) introduced Ms Lee Li Lian as its candidate, making it plain that there would be no grand opposition compromise, SDP maintained it was staying in the race.
Then, just after 4pm yesterday, when everyone was waiting to hear whom it would field, it said, well, no one. In effect, the SDP stepped up to the precipice, stared down the abyss, and blinked. In so doing, it may have done real damage to its reputation. No amount of public relations spin can help a party making a full U-turn in one week come out looking like a hero.
Questions have been raised about its credibility, given the way it had promoted its candidates, saying it would back down only after seeing whom the WP fielded. So having done so, did it find its own candidates wanting?
Yet, this climb-down might be the best option it had, given the circumstances. This was the common sense option and SDP deserves some credit for having the wisdom to know when to fold.
Despite the embarrassment it has already suffered online, it can reclaim some goodwill from opposition supporters who all along wanted to see a straight People's Action Party-Opposition contest.
In contrast, if it had gone ahead to fight, it would be making a bold claim that it could usurp the WP's hold in a ward where WP's candidate had previously gained 41 per cent of the vote.
Netizens had been urging SDP to stay out of the race. The call grew more critical when the party then made the mistake of announcing a radical "joint campaign" proposal. It suggested that the SDP and WP back a single SDP candidate. Then, if the candidate won, WP could run the town council, while the SDP would take up the seat in Parliament.
The move was roundly dismissed, prompting Dr Chee Soon Juan to say a day later that the plan was "misinterpreted".
It thus headed into Nomination Day being seen in some quarters as a spoiler running a troubled campaign. Its chances of doing well had narrowed even before it introduced a candidate. And so it did the sensible thing by not introducing one.
Consider if it chose a different path: If the party ended up doing poorly and also diluting enough of the opposition vote to give the PAP an easy win, its reputation would have taken a far bigger hit.
Not only would it draw the ire of opposition supporters, but it would also lose whatever standing it had among opposition parties. Its strength at the next opposition pow-wow would be severely diminished with the WP having evidence that it can come up against SDP anywhere and trounce it. In the end, Punggol East was never SDP's battle. By walking away, it can return to fight another day.
Top of the news, The Straits Times, Wednesday, January 16 2013, Pg A6
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Originally posted by M the name:
For SDP, common sense prevailed...belatedly
NEWS ANALYSIS
By JEREMY AU YONG
ASSISTANT POLITICAL EDITOR
AS OF yesterday afternoon, less than 24 hours before Nomination Day, all signs still pointed to the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) becoming one corner of a five-cornered fight in Punggol East.Just hours earlier, it had sent a representative to the Elections Department to pick up political donation certificates. And for one week prior, it went through all the motions of a party intending to contest. It did a walkabout, distributed fliers, called press conferences, and even went through the normal dance with the media where it would hint but not confirm its choice of candidate.
Even after the Workers' Party (WP) introduced Ms Lee Li Lian as its candidate, making it plain that there would be no grand opposition compromise, SDP maintained it was staying in the race.
Then, just after 4pm yesterday, when everyone was waiting to hear whom it would field, it said, well, no one. In effect, the SDP stepped up to the precipice, stared down the abyss, and blinked. In so doing, it may have done real damage to its reputation. No amount of public relations spin can help a party making a full U-turn in one week come out looking like a hero.
Questions have been raised about its credibility, given the way it had promoted its candidates, saying it would back down only after seeing whom the WP fielded. So having done so, did it find its own candidates wanting?
Yet, this climb-down might be the best option it had, given the circumstances. This was the common sense option and SDP deserves some credit for having the wisdom to know when to fold.
Despite the embarrassment it has already suffered online, it can reclaim some goodwill from opposition supporters who all along wanted to see a straight People's Action Party-Opposition contest.
In contrast, if it had gone ahead to fight, it would be making a bold claim that it could usurp the WP's hold in a ward where WP's candidate had previously gained 41 per cent of the vote.
Netizens had been urging SDP to stay out of the race. The call grew more critical when the party then made the mistake of announcing a radical "joint campaign" proposal. It suggested that the SDP and WP back a single SDP candidate. Then, if the candidate won, WP could run the town council, while the SDP would take up the seat in Parliament.
The move was roundly dismissed, prompting Dr Chee Soon Juan to say a day later that the plan was "misinterpreted".
It thus headed into Nomination Day being seen in some quarters as a spoiler running a troubled campaign. Its chances of doing well had narrowed even before it introduced a candidate. And so it did the sensible thing by not introducing one.
Consider if it chose a different path: If the party ended up doing poorly and also diluting enough of the opposition vote to give the PAP an easy win, its reputation would have taken a far bigger hit.
Not only would it draw the ire of opposition supporters, but it would also lose whatever standing it had among opposition parties. Its strength at the next opposition pow-wow would be severely diminished with the WP having evidence that it can come up against SDP anywhere and trounce it. In the end, Punggol East was never SDP's battle. By walking away, it can return to fight another day.
Top of the news, The Straits Times, Wednesday, January 16 2013, Pg A6
They wont look good if they back out...but if they dun back out, they will look worse...
it simply is just a choice of "losing more" or "losing less" for them...
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Originally posted by M the name:
For SDP, common sense prevailed...belatedly
NEWS ANALYSIS
By JEREMY AU YONG
ASSISTANT POLITICAL EDITOR
AS OF yesterday afternoon, less than 24 hours before Nomination Day, all signs still pointed to the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) becoming one corner of a five-cornered fight in Punggol East.Just hours earlier, it had sent a representative to the Elections Department to pick up political donation certificates. And for one week prior, it went through all the motions of a party intending to contest. It did a walkabout, distributed fliers, called press conferences, and even went through the normal dance with the media where it would hint but not confirm its choice of candidate.
Even after the Workers' Party (WP) introduced Ms Lee Li Lian as its candidate, making it plain that there would be no grand opposition compromise, SDP maintained it was staying in the race.
Then, just after 4pm yesterday, when everyone was waiting to hear whom it would field, it said, well, no one. In effect, the SDP stepped up to the precipice, stared down the abyss, and blinked. In so doing, it may have done real damage to its reputation. No amount of public relations spin can help a party making a full U-turn in one week come out looking like a hero.
Questions have been raised about its credibility, given the way it had promoted its candidates, saying it would back down only after seeing whom the WP fielded. So having done so, did it find its own candidates wanting?
Yet, this climb-down might be the best option it had, given the circumstances. This was the common sense option and SDP deserves some credit for having the wisdom to know when to fold.
Despite the embarrassment it has already suffered online, it can reclaim some goodwill from opposition supporters who all along wanted to see a straight People's Action Party-Opposition contest.
In contrast, if it had gone ahead to fight, it would be making a bold claim that it could usurp the WP's hold in a ward where WP's candidate had previously gained 41 per cent of the vote.
Netizens had been urging SDP to stay out of the race. The call grew more critical when the party then made the mistake of announcing a radical "joint campaign" proposal. It suggested that the SDP and WP back a single SDP candidate. Then, if the candidate won, WP could run the town council, while the SDP would take up the seat in Parliament.
The move was roundly dismissed, prompting Dr Chee Soon Juan to say a day later that the plan was "misinterpreted".
It thus headed into Nomination Day being seen in some quarters as a spoiler running a troubled campaign. Its chances of doing well had narrowed even before it introduced a candidate. And so it did the sensible thing by not introducing one.
Consider if it chose a different path: If the party ended up doing poorly and also diluting enough of the opposition vote to give the PAP an easy win, its reputation would have taken a far bigger hit.
Not only would it draw the ire of opposition supporters, but it would also lose whatever standing it had among opposition parties. Its strength at the next opposition pow-wow would be severely diminished with the WP having evidence that it can come up against SDP anywhere and trounce it. In the end, Punggol East was never SDP's battle. By walking away, it can return to fight another day.
Top of the news, The Straits Times, Wednesday, January 16 2013, Pg A6
they took the political donations forms.. i assume they didn't give it to Gomez so they're sent in..
then on TV they were shown brandishing those big tins like those flag day tins probably to collect money...
now that they've withdrawn, what happens to the money they collected?
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Keep for future use loh.
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Originally posted by ditzy:
Keep for future use loh.
can like that one? ahahahahahahahahaha!!!
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Originally posted by the Bear:
can like that one? ahahahahahahahahaha!!!
What's new from SDP?
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Originally posted by ditzy:
Obviously, he doesn't exist. His facebook name doesn't even match the 2 independent candidates. So WTF?
Hahaha, heard he wanted to be some sort of pastor now.
He entertained me for a while.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
they took the political donations forms.. i assume they didn't give it to Gomez so they're sent in..
then on TV they were shown brandishing those big tins like those flag day tins probably to collect money...
now that they've withdrawn, what happens to the money they collected?
Buy posters and flyers lor.
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Originally posted by FireIce:
still having kopi at ISD
reported him for the flooding tt morning
Wa really ar?
*clap clap clap*