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Posted: 21 Aug 2011 03:53 PM PDT

Number of new members in the following states:

Sabah - about 10,000
Pahang - about 4,000.
Penang - recorded a lower number of new members, around 1,000 (many of the party's branches have full membership)

According to Gerakan President, Tan Sri Koh Tsu Khoon, Penang currently has about 50,000 Gerakan members.

If that is the case, why was it that only TWO HUNDRED (200) of 50 000 registered members attended the dinner?

That means only 0.4% of Gerakan members from Penang attended that dinner!!!

Now, what does that tell us about how relevant is Gerakan to its own registered members?

At the recent fund-raising Suaram Scorpene dinner, about 600 people attended the dinner!

The argument he gave that they are gaining support does not hold water.

The rationale given that the four independent YBs from Sabah - Raymond Tan Shu Kiah (Tanjung Papat), Au Kam Wah (Elopura) and Peter Pang En Yin (Karamunting ) - and from Pahang - Ho Yip Kap (Tanah Rata) chose to join Gerakan does not mean Gerakan is relevant!!!

There are 222 parliamentary seats and NONE are from Gerakan!

In Pahang, there are only 14 state seats and Ho Yip Kap was formerly from MCA, contested as an independent candidate and only joined Gerakan on 2nd January 2010. A Bernama statement revealed that Ho, 56, an MCA life member, was sacked from MCA for contesting the Tanah Rata seat as an independent.He rejoined MCA on 15th of March 2008.

At the dinner, Gerakan President said: "So, don't say we are not relevant. How come these YBs chose us and not others?"

Feeling curious, I did a search on those four reps. Guess what I found?

According to The Malaysian Mirror, Gerakan Deputy President Chang Ko Youn said:

In fact, he said, under Dr Koh's leadership, the party had been able to form more branches and recruit new members across the country.

He said Gerakan had managed, for example, to woo four independent assemblymen - three in Sabah and one in Pahang - into the party.

Posted: 21 Aug 2011 01:17 AM PDT

But he failed to foresee the extent of damage to the MCA and the Gerakan, and he could not know that the three main opposition parties (PAS, the DAP, and Parti Keadilan Nasional) would effectively combine to deliver a significant blow to the ruling party.

In a secret cable to the State Department on Aug 19, 2006, published at Malaysia Today through WikiLeaks, Mark Clark corrected predicted a general election either in the fourth quarter of 2007 or the first quarter of 2008. The elections were indeed held in the first quarter of 2008, on March 8.

He foresaw BN's loss of Malaysian Chinese votes because of bumiputra policies. "As Chinese sensitivities heighten regarding Malay-centric policies, discontent with the status quo grows," he said.

He also noted, as many Malaysian political pundits have also observed, that the Abdullah Ahmad Badawi government had allowed greater freedom of speech in the post-Mahathir era.

It had "allowed greater public airing of such discontent, albeit with limits", although Abdullah was also "unable to shut down divisive debates in stark contrast to Mahathir's firm control".

Clark commented that no one was yet predicting the collapse of the Barisan Nasional and that Umno was not in danger of losing significant numbers of votes. But the BN's Chinese component parties (the MCA and Gerakan principally) feared they would lose votes. "Growing discontent in the Chinese community has led many political pundits to forecast that many Chinese will abandon MCA and Gerakan and vote for DAP in the next election."

But Clark, writing in 2006, did not see the opposition parties being able to provide Malaysians a real alternative.

Posted: 20 Aug 2011 07:49 PM PDT

Bismillah!

The Umno elections might be more than a year away but those who want to go to the top need to make their money from last year. Otherwise, how to be number 1.

Let's face it. Jibby Razak is out of the picture. He can't get two-thirds majority in the next general election without whole-scale cheating. He's not used to fighting or cheating because he doesn't need to fight.

Have you ever seen him fight for a post? Not for Umno Youth. Also not in the 1993 Umno elections when he was part of the Wawasan Team led by Anwar "Mat Leather King" Ibrahim.

But others have to fight. And they all need money to fight, to buy votes, to guarantee loyalty among the Umno voters and delegates. Lots of money lah.

That's where biometrics comes in. Create a system that no one needs and make money off the migrants, the workers, the illegals and anyone else looking to use cheap labour.

After all, what is RM300 per illegal? Cheap what. Multiply with the 2 million illegals and plus re-registering those who are legal? Money in the bag lah.

Who's in on it? The question to ask is, who isn't in on it? It's the biggest racket that involves Umno's senior politicians who want to take over from Najib.

Kredit: www.malaysia-today.net

Isnin, 22 Ogos 2011

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