Hougang by-election 26-5-12 -- WP Png Eng Huat
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Nomination day tomorrow.
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Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
Nomination day tomorrow.
Tomorrow got good show.....
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Originally posted by SBS9252G:
Tomorrow got good show.....
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is it 2 corner fight ?
or PAP got 3rd party to join in ?
whoever is 3rd party is working for PAP..............
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Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
Hougang voters must not let Singapore down.
I really bet they didn't really vote for the 'morden chen shimei'(you should really know who is he) they are voting because of LTK and his party..that's why now they have LTK in parliament they can vote who they want now...it's their choice if PAP really wins,they didn't let us down they just choose who they want. that's what i want to comment.
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Originally posted by Susanteo2011:
is it 2 corner fight ?
or PAP got 3rd party to join in ?
whoever is 3rd party is working for PAP..............
maybe 4...because got a man from WP wants to contest HG SMC instead of trying to think of how to win Nee Soon GRC...ahem and the tio fined for posting Mas Selamat photo the ah gong contesting so maybe 3 or 4 way fight.
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Support Workers’ Party on Nomination Day – 16 May 2012
Dear Supporters of the Workers’ Party,
If you would like to join us to support the Workers’ Party on Nomination Day (16 May 2012) for the Hougang By-election, kindly note the following:
- Meeting Point: Blk 704 Hougang Ave 2 (void deck, common area beside Residents’ Corner, facing Serangoon Junior College)
- Meeting Time: 10.30am
- Attire: Light-blue topThanks and see you there!
The Workers’ Party
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How ah?
Like PE, winner will win by a few hundred votes ?
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Looks like there might be a four corner fight.
Lets see any drama tomorrow.
Could be WP collect extra froms.
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‘One Ward two MP’ idea flawed, says WP candidate
Opposition candidates do not hold role of grassroots adviser: Png
By ANDREA Ong
THE argument that Hougang residents could be served by two MPs if they vote for the People Action Party (PAP) is flawed, said the Workers’ Party’s (WP) by-election candidate yesterday.
“The two MP system was probably accidentally designed by the PAP,” said Mr Png Eng Huat, 50, referring to past instances when the PAP’s losing candidates in opposition wards stayed on in the constituencies as grassroots advisers.
But the system would not work for opposition candidates who do not hold the role of adviser. Mr Png told The Straits Times: “It only works with an opposition MP and a PAP grassroots adviser. The reverse, unfortunately, doesn’t work.”
He was responding to Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean’s suggestion last Friday that if Hougang residents voted for the PAP, they would get “best of both worlds” as theywould still be served by WP chief Low Thia Khiang, who was MP for the ward for 20 years.
On Sunday, the PAP’s candidate Desmond Choo said he expected the WP to continue being active in Hougang regardless of the by-election results “if WP is serious about serving the residents”.
Mr Choo, who lost to former MP Yaw Shin Leong in last year’s general election, is glassroots adviser in Hougang.
The by-election is being held to fill the seat vacated by Mr Yaw when he was sacked from the WP for not coming clean on allegations of extramarital affairs.
In the 21 years that the WP has been in the ward, it has been running schemes with several voluntary welfare organisation including a food rations scheme for the poor which Mr Png supervised from 2006 to last year.
But yesterday, Mr Png suggested that the schemes were not comparable to the PAP grassroots machinery. Despite this, he said, if he lost and “if Mr Choo is okay with it,” he hopes to continue doing welfare work there.
Ahead of Nomination Day tomorrow, his opponent Mr Choo has highlighted his track record of schemes which have helped residents, such as transport vouchers, a job placement centre and a new legal clinic to be launched today.
On his own plans, Mr Png said he did not want to waste resources by duplicating such schemes, adding: “I’m not in a contest to bring in that many programmes here, to see who will win…I may as well look after other needs so we complement.”
The businessman also stressed his view that local issues cannot be divorced from the national. For instance, he said, while town council manages the estate, the building of new markets or housing is set by national policies.
Responding to Mr Choo ‘s comments on Sunday that an MP’s basic job is to take concrete steps in looking after residents’ needs on the ground, Mr Png said the WP has already been doing this. “Definitely, we have taken care of Hougang to the best of our abilities.”
Over the past three months, he has knocked on the doors of almost all the Housing Board flats in Hougang, recording residents’ feedback in his “little black book”, he said. All the concerns – from cleanliness to spalling concrete – are in the process of being solved, he added.
On Mr Choo’s claim that he is the underdog in the ward, Mr Png countered that at the national level, the WP is “definitely the underdog” with only five seats in Parliament, compared to 81 held by the PAP.
Meanwhile last night, six former Singapore People’s Party members led by former civil servant Benjamin Pwee also issued a statement urging Hougang voters to “vote with the national political agenda in mind” and signal to the ruling party that “business cannot be as usual anymore”.
prime.news, The Straits Times, Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Pg A8 -
Originally posted by Clivebenss:
another Teo Ser Luck type?
everyone say TSL handsome. ok la, not ugly la. not tall leh, he. I met him face to face. Didn't expect that to be him cuz when ppl say handsome, I will always think of tall and handsome. but he ... erhm... not a midget la. but not tall lor. the face.... not ugly la. whether handsome or not, very subjective. eg my definition of handsome muz be tall also.
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Originally posted by FireIce:
they can form the F4 of PAP
teo ser luck
baey yam keng
vivian bala
(desmond choo) <- if he wins, but i hope notdid you just say baey yam keng? the one who told singaporeans to reflect, when the sun pig call singaporeans dog? He not ugly la... but the face look ser mi mi.
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LOL...you very good at describing the person lor!
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tot choo say wanna be indep?
how come so many other white men there at the nomination centre?
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official. it's between choo and png
http://www.straitstimes.com/The-Big-Story/The-Big-Story-2/Story/STIStory_799480.html
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If png wears a singlet, he could easily pass off as a pork chops seller.
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Originally posted by Rock^Star:
If png wears a singlet, he could easily pass off as a pork chops seller.
then choo can pass off a sec four guy.
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
then choo can pass off a sec four guy.
Or a little bitch who keeps running to his dad for money for his little venture.
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Originally posted by alize:
Or a little bitch who keeps running to his dad for money for his little venture.
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I think this by election will be a non event.
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But still maybe some forums might be "Closed for maintenance"
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no rally tml
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i dun think i vote for wp....
Ever since WP wins...my hougang ave 3 where i stay bery dirty..0.0
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if u no like WP, rber to make a X in that box k?
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WP all the way~
my block no such problems
