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| | Sour Grapes? Grow up, please!The STAR this week is so much more interesting than during campaigning period. In those times it really looked a bit like a BN newsletter and/or campaign flyer (albeit a thick one). There's still plenty of perceived bias (perceived cos its just my view), such as how the Perak MB situation is making headlines while Terengganu and Perlis are not. Yet post-elections there's been a bit more even coverage, such as the following two articles.
Barisan will act as a watchdog, says Khir
By DHARMENDER SINGH <dharam@thestar.com.my>
SHAH ALAM: The state Barisan Nasional will act as watchdog to ensure that the three parties forming the state government delivered on election promises as stipulated in their manifestoes, said former Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo.
Breaking his silence for the first time since the recently concluded general election, Dr Khir said, “I hope the three parties (PKR, DAP and PAS) will take the best care possible of the people and this beautiful and good state, after receiving the mandate from the people.
“We will work together with the state government if the projects benefit the people and are carried out transparently.”
He was speaking at a press conference yesterday at the Selangor Umno building here.
Dr Khir, who left the building on Saturday without talking to the press after learning of Barisan's defeat in the state, had cancelled several scheduled press conferences before last night.
He said Barisan would register all pre-schoolers, senior citizens, single mothers and students so that they could receive all the benefits such as free education, allowances and healthcare that were promised.
Asked about rumours that the state Barisan had tried to woo PAS assemblymen to gain a simple majority, Dr Khir said this was not true.
Commenting on claims that Barisan had tried to destroy documents kept at the state secretariat building, Dr Khir said these were just rumours and that he had always been transparent and all the papers were in order.
“We have nothing to hide,” he said.
taken from The Star, March 12 (Wednesday)
Call to scrap mega projects
PENANG: The state Umno will “persuade” the Federal Government to scrap all the mega projects in the state in view of the people’s clear rejection of Barisan Nasional.
Since Penangites do not want development, the Federal Government should not force it on them, said state Umno liaison committee secretary Datuk Azhar Ibrahim.
He said that this was not Penang Umno taking revenge “but we are actually giving the people what they want”.
“They voted for change, so let us see what the DAP can do,” he said after the party’s emergency meeting at Menara Umno yesterday.
Azhar, who is Penaga assemblyman, was appointed the state Opposition Leader at the meeting.
Meanwhile, Umno liaison committee deputy chief Datuk Abdul Rashid Abdullah hit out at the new administration for its decision not to practise the New Economic Policy (NEP).
Taken from The Star, March 14 (Friday)
Any kid can identify the sheer childishness in the response of these two men. In the first article, Khir Toyo is simply being malicious, to try and overload the PUBLIC healthcare delivery system by convincing those without need to just show up at the hospitals. And that's the keyword there, the PUBLIC healthcare system. In the second article, Penang Umno's Azhar is advocating the cancellation of all mega-projects (read, road construction, second Penang bridge, development of zoned areas), not because they are wasteful, but because "Penangites do not want develoment". Again, advocating that projects supposedly (and I'm aware there's arguments against this) for the PUBLIC be scrapped, simply because BN has lost in Penang. Even though Penang UMNO was never the main component in Penang's pre-GE government.
If you want to be a people's representative, do it. Fight for things that benefit the people. Otherwise you reveal yourself to be just another power-hungry Little Napoleon, upset at being dislodged from your position of priviledge. The BN and the BA/BR (Barisan Alternatif/Barisan Rakyat) are both supposedly intent on helping Malaysians. Prove it, then. Because Malaysians are not so stupid as to forget that you've called for their public healthcare system to become a joke, for projects in their neighbourhoods to be cancelled, all because you're pissed you've lost an election.
Grow up, please.
P.S. - Though I'm only pulling out the negative comments of a few BN representatives, there are others who say the right thing, speak about reform and listening more closely to the people. Empty words they may be, but they're the RIGHT empty words. Special mention to Wanita UMNO and strong-lady Rafidah Aziz (oddly enough).
| | | Posted 3/14/2008 8:11 AM - 0 comments
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