Wan Azizah inexplicable choice of candidates

Yesterday I posted Gan Pei Nei gutted by Wan Azizah?.

Gan Pei Nei the Rawang ADUN (incumbent for term 2013) said allegations via poison pen letter (surat layang) that she misused funds and was absent from the constituency (she had just given birth last month) have cost her the chance to defend the seat because she was just dropped from contesting in GE14.

She suspected the work to be those of rivals in PKR. I noted that Wan Azizah has been unnecessarily and unduly unfair in treating Gan Pei Nei as guilty until proven innocent just based on a surat layang. That's hardly justice or impartility.

they treated anwar unfairly wor

I also remarked that's the way PKR treats its own members, on the basis of factionalism and favouritism, and not by evidence or proof.

Today sweetie Eli Wong has come out to defend Gan, denying that the state government is conducting an investigation into allegations against the Rawang incumbent.

Eli said that a check with 'caretaker' (wakakaka, that's an unnecessary over-pompous 9 letters) Selangor MB Azmin Ali confirmed that Gan is not being investigated for any wrongdoing, and has a clean record.

Eli said, “Gan’s record of service (in Kajang) is good, she has managed to resolve the problems of many constituents as well as problems related to basic infrastructure."

“I dare say she has scored high marks (as an assemblyperson), both in her service to the people or her oratory abilities in the state assembly."

“That’s why we find it hard to believe this accusation.”

But dearest dahleeng Eli, that's small comfort for poor sweetie Gan because you haven't explained or  couldn't explain or perhaps aren't allowed to explain why she was dropped like a Rawang bag of cement, considering your just high praise for her as an ADUN, both in her service to the people or her oratory abilities in the state assembly.

Malaysiakini also mentioned that ...In a Facebook post today, caretaker (wakakaka) Selangor exco Teng Chang Khim similarly described Gan as one of the "most outstanding" colleagues in his career as a state lawmaker.

That's extremely high praise from Teng who is from a different party, the DAP, and also a former Speaker of the Selangor DUN. He was knighted by HRH Selangor for his services to the state as the House Speaker.

Gan, despite her disadvantages now, like the sweetheart she is, nonetheless passed a message to her constituents to continue supporting PKR.

Two-term PKR Rawang assemblyman, Gan Pei Nei being consoled after learning that she may not be fielded as a candidate in GE14.

But Wan Azizah must explain her inexplicable decision to drop such a high performing ADUN like Gan Pei Nei for Chua Wei Kiat, one of PKR Youth leaders.

This is especially so after inexplicably dropping another PKR representative, Dr Tan Kee Kwong, for Dr Tan Yee Kew against the wishes of PKR Wangsa Maju members.

Malaysiakini reported in its Despite being dropped, Gan vows to keep up anti-BN fight (extracts):

She claimed that she was a victim of a plot by those who were eyeing her seat, and that she was never given a chance to defend herself with the party leaders.

Her replacement, Chua Wei Keat, denied that he was part of the so-called plot, stressing that his role in the affair was merely to forward a complaint about Gan on to his boss and Selayang MP William Leong.

PKR leaders have yet to address the allegations made by Gan. Leong, when approached yesterday, refused to comment on the matter.

Who was the complainant? What was the complaint? Was the complain checked for veracity? Who recommended dropping Gan? Was it Wan Azizah herself?

So, Chua Wei Keat forwarding a complaint about Gan on to his boss and Selayang MP William Leong eh?

Isn't there semblance of a conflict of interest when the reporter of the alleged complaint benefits from that complaint?

Gan Pei Nei is reported to be a protégé of Tian Chua who is one of Azmin Ali henchmen, so has poor Gan being caught as a pelandok amidst the battle between a Dwarf and a Cat?

are Dr Tan Yee Kew (bottom left) and William Leong (2nd from right) part of the Pandan Cats? 

This seems likely as Tian Chua himself was nearly dropped. But it's a shame when a hardworking high performing ADUN like Gan Pei Nei, no matter whose protégé she is, suffers from factional dispute rather than on her own performance, which has been an outstanding credit to PKR.

The party president should be more conscious of who are party assets to PKR, and not just focus on her intra-party foes plus probably an innocent protégé. As the Chinese would say, "Don't be so 'light-ear'", meaning, don't listen to only those nearest the throne.

Dr Tan Kee Kwong - flummoxed, flabbergasted and f**ked

From Star Online - Bitter pill to swallow for Wangsa Maju incumbent (extracts):

WANGSA Maju MP Datuk Dr Tan Kee Kwong has expressed deep disappointment over the PKR leadership’s decision to drop him and field someone else instead for the parliamentary seat.

From the list announced by party president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Kee Kwong has been replaced by PKR treasurer-general Datin Paduka Dr Tan Yee Kew as candidate for Wangsa Maju.

“I have served Wangsa Maju for eight years, even before contesting in the 13th general election.

“How can PKR pick a candidate that is not active in Wangsa Maju?

“I do not understand this decision made by the leadership,” Kee Kwong told StarMetro in a phone interview.

Much as I now detest the Lim-controlled DAP CEC, its reasons for dropping or NOT picking candidates have been quite clear, falling into one of the following (with one exception):

(a) too independent-minded (eg. Zaid Ibrahim, Teh Yee Cheu, etc)

(b) not toeing lines of Command HQ (eg., Dr Tan Seng Giaw, Dr Boo Cheng Hau, etc)

(c) potentially scandal-ridden (eg. Jeff 'kucing kurap' Ooi, Dyana Sofya etc)

Jeff Ooi 

Dyana Sofya 

(d) considered by Young Turks as inconvenient and by-now-useless (eg. Zul Mohd Noor, Ng Aik Weng, etc)

Zul Mohd Noor 

Ng Wei Aik Weng  

(my bad, Thanks Peter for your correction)

Of the lot I am most sympathetic to Ng Wei Aik Weng, the exception to the DAP's known 'unwanted' categories. I and others have very puzzled by his drop from favour.

Like PKR's Dr Tan Kee Kwong he doe NOT know why he has been dropped. At least the others knew - that they disagree with HQ will have to be in another later post. Thus I have in the interim categorised Wei Aik Weng's fall from grace as one considered by DAP Young Turks as now useless.

Yes, back to Dr Tan Kee Kwong, can anyone tell me why the illustrious son of the illustrious (late) Dr Tan Chee Khoon has been discarded by PKR in favour of an older woman who has not done any service yet in Wangsa Maju?

Who is Dr Tan Yee Kew allied to in PKR such that a valuable hardworking Dr Tan Kee Kwong has been buang for her?

Kee Kwong, the 2013-termed MP, angrily claimed that his replacement Yee Kew will lose anywhere she contests. Wakakaka but I can't blame him for being miffed when he has been dropped mysteriously, thus I can understand his frustration when he declared that he will go on a "holiday" instead of assisting her for the 14th general election.

He lamented, "I can't understand why the party didn't choose me and instead chose someone who loses anywhere she goes.

"Is Yee Kew more qualified than me? She has not been active in Kuala Lumpur. Does such a person have a winning chance?"

Maybe Wan Azizah can explain. Maybe the current fcational war within PKR could be a possible answer.

Dr Tan Yee Kew 

On top of the PKR factional war, methinks sometimes it's not the unsuitability of the outgoing incumbent but rather, the suitability of a particular constituency as to its its racist-Malaysian ethnic composition which fits the incoming/favoured candidate gnam gnam to enhance a win.

Of course there's no denying Dr Tan Yee Kew must be very favoured by the PKR powers-that-be to be able to come out of the left field to replace a hardworking Dr Tan Kee Kwong.

Yes, this time it might be the reverse to/of the usual saying of 'the singer not the song', meaning it's gone reverse into 'the song rather than the singer'.

Dr Tan Kee Kwong with his constituents

That's right, I suspect Dr Tan Kee Kwong's Wangsa Maju fits Dr Tan Yee Kee gnam gnam so the former has to be the collateral damage to accommodate the PKR current blue-eyed sweetheart.

Meanwhile, Malaysiakini reported rumblings in PKR Wangsa Maju, where the division urged the party leadership to reconsider their decision to introduce a new candidate for the Wangsa Maju parliamentary seat.

In a statement today, deputy division youth chief Azmee Abd Rahim said the division had proposed two names - incumbent Tan Kee Kwong and deputy division chief Ramzan Abdul Ghafoor Khan - but neither were selected.

But I doubt Princess iron Fan will listen to them. It's almost the same way as Fahmi Fadzil has been chosen to be sembileh in Lembah Pantai to save the honour of Nurul Izzah, who may now scoot off safely to Permatang Pauh without the embarrassment of being criticised for 'panik-cabut-lari'.

Fahmi Fadzil  the kambing

Nurul Izzah

Sepoy mutiny in Kapar

NST - PKR supporters object to Abdullah Sani's candidacy for Kapar (extracts):

Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid
MP Kuala Langsat 2013 GE

PKR has moved him to contest in Kapar

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 50 PKR supporters from Kapar gathered at the party headquarters here today to protest the candidacy of Datuk Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid for the parliamentary seat in Selangor, insisting that it is a “traditional-Indian” constituency.

The group threatened to not vote for PKR if its president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah does not comply with their demands.

G. Kalaiselvan, who claimed to be a grassroot leader in the party said it was imperative to have an Indian representative to represent the rights of the community in Kapar.

“We have no issues with Malay candidates but the area has many temples. How are Malay candidates going to go in?”

“We also don’t want Manivanan because his office is always closed and he doesn’t do his job properly,” Kalaiselvan told reporters while referring to dropped incumbent G. Manivanan who was replaced with Abdullah Sani.

Manivanan was instead offered the Hutan Melintang state seat in Perak by PKR.

PKR member, M. Tamilvanam said a Malay candidate could not represent the interests of the 17,000 Indians in the traditional Indian area.

“We need a representative who can read and write in Tamil as the community they will be serving are mostly Tamil educated. We will not vote for PKR if they refuse to field an Indian candidate,” said the cultural activist from Naam Tamilan.

The original Kapar as a federal constituency was abolished in 1974, with its voters lumped into the constituencies of Kuala Selangor and Pelabuhan Kelang.

In 1986 it was re-constituted and since then its representatives have been all Indian MP's (BN from GE7 to GE11, PKR in GE12 and GE13).

Kapar used to be the biggest federal constituency in Malaysia with approximately 150,000 registered voters compared to Putrajaya which had 15,000. To wit, the parliamentary power of a Putrajaya person is 10 times MORE powerful than a fellow citizen in Kapar.

But today's Kapar (2018) may be slightly different. The recent re-delineation has moved 40,000 plus voters out of Kapar to somewhere, perhaps into Tony Pua's constituency of Petaling Jaya Utara (now re-named Damansara).

Minus the exodus of 40K+ voters, will the new Kapar be now favourable to a Malay candidate, and which may be why PKR has put Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid as its candidate for GE14?

While I know Kapar is one of those federal constituencies that will shrink from the sakti-ness of the EC, I am not too sure about its new ethnic mix.

But as a known kowtim-ness of the EC, it may be generally safe to assume the EC shrinks constituencies to favour BN candidates while sardine-ising Chinese dominated areas, a process of putting useless (to BN) Chinese voters to support (for all the EC cares 2 f**ks) a Chinese or Indian candidate belonging to the DAP or PKR.

Thus Kapar may no longer be a constituency which will favour an Indian candidate.

Bloody Chinese

FMT - Saifuddin vows not to repeat GE13 mistakes (extracts):

SHAH ALAM: PKR’s candidate for the Indera Mahkota parliamentary constituency in Pahang, Saifuddin Abdullah, has learnt his lessons from his defeat in the 13th general election in 2013.

He admitted that he was overconfident when he contested under the Barisan Nasional (BN) banner against PAS’ Nasruddin Hassan Tantawi when contesting the Temerloh seat.

“I did not expect the Chinese votes to turn (to the opposition),” he told FMT.

Although he refused to say much, Saifuddin said the one mistake he would not repeat in the coming polls was to underestimate his opponent.

“I had a very close relationship with the Chinese and I thought everything was going fine.

I miscalculated the ‘Ubah’ (‘Change’) phenomenon; that was my mistake,” he said.

Bloody Chinese, wakakaka.

I have never supported the 'Ubah' campaign initiated by Brother Haris Ibrahim. It was too undiscriminating and thus poor Saifuddin got the chop whilst his opponent, the man with the Egyptian name who hates Valentine's Day won.

What bloody stupid Chinese voters, wakakaka.

But Saifuddin wasn't the first UMNO man to lose to PAS because the bloody Chinese.

Someone else did in 1969 in Kedah, wakakaka.

Apo Nak Di Kato

From Star Online:

JOHOR BARU: Former Johor DAP chief Dr Boo Cheng Hau (pic) has launched a tirade against the party after he was replaced with his former protégé Tan Hong Ping as the candidate for the Skudai state seat.

The rift between Dr Boo and Tan has grown wider, with the two-term Skudai assemblyman accusing the Mengkibol assemblyman of stabbing him in his back.

Dr Boo also questioned the integrity of DAP leaders who encouraged Tan to do so.

"I didn't do anything to hurt DAP. I've never complained about spending money to cultivate my assistant but they asked my assistant to betray me," Dr Boo said in a video clip dated April 22, which has gone viral.

"Asking the apprentice to defeat the master… you cannot find such vicious leaders in the world," Dr Boo said during a meet-and-greet with voters at a coffee shop.

Br Boo also said that DAP had demanded for Barisan Nasional leaders involved in graft to step down, and that DAP leaders should also lead by example.

He warned of corrupt and unprincipled DAP leaders who had abandoned party principles.

"Those who are supposed to leave or resign from the party are the leaders who does not stand firm in its principles ... not me Boo Cheng Hau.

"Party leaders who are charged with graft should quit," he said," he said.

Dr Boo did not mentioned any names but is believed to be referring to party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, who is currently on trial for graft.

Dr Boo urged voters to choose their leaders according to "ABC" or Asal Bukan Corrupt (as long as they are not corrupted) principles.
On April 14, Lim announced at a ceramah in Batu Pahat that Dr Boo's candidacy would be taken over by Tan Hong Pin.

Dr Boo also quashed talk that he would leave the party or contest as an independent candidate.

'Apo Nak Di Kato' literally means 'What is meant to be said' but in colloquial Minang speech implies 'Like it or not'.

Stop sale of bumiputera assets

FMT - Dr M: Govt must reduce wealth gap, stop sale of Bumiputera assets:

From the blog of Anwar Ibrahim 28 Nov 2009 (extracts):

... the Malaysian government was believed to have lost US$500 million in an attempt at Mahathir’s urging to corner the London tin market through a company called Maminco, driving the world price of tin from US$4.50 per tonne to US$7.50.

It then sought to cover up the loss by establishing a US$2 company called Mukawasa from which allocations of new share issues to the government’s Employees Provident Fund (EPF) were diverted. Mukawasa expected to sell the shares at a windfall profit to hide the tin speculation.

For more, read post stated above on Anwar Ibrahim's blog.

Don;t forget, I did not say it, t'was Anwar, wakakaka.

Mahathir taking a leaf out of Anwar's book?

MM Online - ‘Well-known BN leaders’ looking to join Pakatan, Dr M claims (extracts):

PETALING JAYA, April 24 — Pakatan Harapan chairman Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today claimed that several Barisan Nasional representatives had approached him to join his coalition.

Without revealing names, Dr Mahathir said these representatives were fed up with BN’s administration and thus wanted to leave for PH. [...]

Separately, Dr Mahathir said PH was confident of a bigger win in the coming election, attributing his prediction to the massive crowds that have been attending his ceramahs.

“If you follow our ceramah, you will know there at least 20,000 people attending our talks.

“And these people are not brought in buses, given food or paid RM100 like the other party,” he said.

Likewise with Anwar Ibrahim campaigning prior to 2008, when massive crowds attended his speeches even when the weather wasn't conducive.

But they came to satiate their curiosity rather than to lend support, because the election outcomes for PKR and allies did not reflect the support of the participating massive crowds. Anwar then was an outback novelty, his rally a festive event-opportunity for family outings and such-likes rather than a show of political support.

Thus, it's still too early to equate crowd attendance with actual votes for Mahathir.

But far more interesting has been Mahathir's claim that several un-named BN representatives (presumably mostly UMNO) had approached him to join his coalition because they were fed up with BN’s administration.

'... several un-named BN representatives ...', wakakaka. 

It's far more interesting because it reminds me of Anwar Ibrahim's gambit in 2008 after the general election which saw BN winning by 140 seats to Pakatan's 82.

Anwar then claimed he had won over 30 of the BN MP's which would have given him the magic figure of 112 MPs in Pakatan, a one-seat majority in parliament but nonetheless a majority, and the right to form the ruling government.

His target date for "taking over" from AAB was 16 September 2008, abbreviated to a Malaysian-ised 916.

He also demanded AAB call for a fresh election to deal with the impasse, wakakaka. But AAB wisely ignored Anwar's poker bluff, him saying (words to the effect) "I know Anwar. If he has the numbers he would have already stormed into my office to take over."

Anwar then blamed a stoic couldn't-be-bothered AAB, who must have laughed silently at the manmanlai bullshit, for "blocking a smooth transition of power from the government to the opposition block", wakakaka again.

T'was reported by Malaysiakini that Anwar who is Pakatan Rakyat’s prime minister-designate said the opposition had exhausted every possible constitutional and conventional way to accomplish a “peaceful and orderly take-over of the federal government”.

Excuse me while I wakakaka again and again.

“We exhausted all peaceful ways to take over. One should ask Abdullah, not me, for his reasons of disallowing us to take over,” the Permatang Pauh member of parliament said during his Hari Raya open house in his hometown of Cerok To’kun, in Bukit Mertajam, Penang today.

Then, to complete the comedy, I've to tell you the involvement of Nathaniel Tan, once the ultimate anwarista, and the mathematically-challenged Hannah Yeoh, wakakaka.

In those days, Nathaniel Tan's faith in Anwar Ibrahim was such that he and Hannah Yeoh actually supported the 916 Deformasi, a classic case of overt shameless frogology (as claimed by Anwar), in actuality a notorious attempt to oppress the supremacy of the ballot box.

That naughty attempt at subversion of the ballot box was masked, packaged and spun away convincingly as a greater good for the rakyat, a sleazy sinister slogan we were to subsequently hear again during the malodorous rancid Kajang Conspiracy, and yet again this round, as the caring Maddy attempt to save Malaysia!

Nat Tan, the once-ultimate anwarista, fearing that his wonderful Great Leader might even be assassinated, had written rather pleadingly:

One controversial option to forestall any such drastic measures by the powers-that-be is for Malaysians to push for a change of government – either by crossovers, or calling for a snap general election, a potential last resort for BN, which is good for democracy, but unlikely to forestall the ruling coalition's demise.

I wonder what he was smoking when he talked like so regarding an election where BN had just won 140 seats to stump Pakatan's 82 kaukau.

"... by crossover", my bloody rambutans, wakakaka. But seemingly he showed no shame in saying such disgraceful democracy-desecrating words.

Mind, he wasn't the only one in PKR to have said that - once I asked a PKR matey why he had even supported frogology? His answer flabbergasted, flummoxed and flattened me, that he and his PKR mates "... couldn't wait any more for a democratic change of government to see Anwar Ibrahim as PM." Ooh la la.

Yes, Nat Tan and sweetie silly Hannah Yeoh couldn't understand why AAB with 140 parliamentary seats won't give way to the Great Leader with 82 seats, or to call for another election immediately after winning 05 March 2008 GE with a near-60 seats majority.

Maybe both didn't do well in mathematics at school though graduating brilliantly from universities, wakakaka.

why is 140 > 82? 

Indeed, Nat Tan was justifying and asking the public to support the insidious political frog-hunting which the World's Greatest Political Reformer had long already successfully demonstrated as his specialty in Sabah in 1994.

Mr Manmanlai had then turned Pairin from being the democratically elected CM into the opposition leader with just a few croaks, yes, that disgraceful deformasi subversion of the ballot box to seize power via the complicit cruddy cesspool.

Nat Tan then apologetically rationalized (perhaps attempting to fool his own conscience and values):

While less than ideal, these remain some of the few ways we can avoid a descent into chaos and desperation within BN, and by extension within Malaysia.

Wow! and ..... WHAT? Was Nat Tan then hinting at a post-election rebellion? And that BN which just won 140 seats was going to descend into chaos and desperation?

[Years later Nat Tan demonstrated his art of fake news when he tried to smear Lim Guan Eng into a limit (his, Nat Tan's own limit) of maximum two terms as CM in his letter to Malaysiakini - I defended Guan Eng (wakakaka - those were the foolish days) in my post and also letter to Malaysiakini titled The harassing, heckling and hounding of Guan Eng)

But we knew then (2008) who had descended into desperation, wakakaka, so much so there was even a PKR frog-hunting expedition all the way to Taiwan, wakakaka.

Aiyoyo, how did he and Hannah Yeoh ever come to support the most defomasi 916 when both are known to be clean earnest young (at that time, 10 years ago) people?

But today I wonder whether we are seeing Mahathir in his warning about BN frogs as a pre-election rather than Anwar's post election gambit a la 916?

Wakakaka, the coincidental near similarity between once-Boss and once-No 2 is strikingly astonishing.

And will the current one also end in an overseas frog-hunting expedition, perhaps this time all the way to the wondrous Malabar Coast?