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Many know that with the current 4-horse race, TT will most probably win as the votes for the others are split between the 3. My situation is this: 1. I think our president should not be endorsed by the PAP (together with clans, societal groups, 75% of unions, and even taxi drivers) as this person needs to be trusted to challenge them on their actions. 2. While there are many pros and cons of the other 3 candidates, I think any of them would be a better choice than the PAP-endorsed candidate (i.e. TT) I invite fellow forumers, analysts, and fortune tellers to predict who is most likely to win the most votes among the other 3 candidates. But I don't want this thread to discuss "who is better." This will be a never-ending story and TT will win. Maybe we can guess from attendance at rallies, maybe the polls in MCF, maybe the opposition parties (not just SDP) can finally pull together and decided to support a particular candidate... At the end of the day, I intend to vote for the candidate who will most likely garner the most votes other than TT. Maybe if enough people "all in," then there is a chance to tip the scale against the obvious winner. Wishful thinking, I know, but I think it's still better than this endless battle of discussing "who is better" between the 3...

From CNA: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin...1144593/1/.html NTUC says no decision yet to back any presidential candidate By Hoe Yeen Nie | Posted: 02 August 2011 2141 hrs

Reading between the lines, I guess someone will be getting the COE other than TT? Must control myself not to draw moustache on polling day Ballot paper for presidential polls to include candidates' photos Posted: 02 August 2011 1759 hrs SINGAPORE: The ballot paper for the upcoming Presidential Election will include the photographs of candidates. The Elections Department said this will allow voters to recognise the candidates more easily and facilitate their marking of voting choice on the ballot paper. The change in the format of the ballot paper was one of the rules and regulations gazetted on Tuesday, ahead of the Presidential Election which has to take place by the end of this month. Political observers are expecting Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to issue the Writ of Election in the next day or two. The rules gazetted give clear definitions of matters like what constitutes an assembly centre, a banner or poster, distribution of election campaign recording, an election activity, and a social networking service. The gazette notification stated that the election period will begin with the date a Writ of Election is issued for the Presidential Election. It will end with the start of the eve of Polling Day, which is now called the Cooling-Off Day. Several items have also been excluded from the category of election advertising. These include diaries or calendars, key chains, T-shirts, miniature flags and soft toys. The gazette notification also stated that the maximum number of posters and banners which may be displayed in any public place during the campaign period will be decided by the Returning Officer. In addition, no new display of posters and banners will be allowed on Cooling-Off Day and Polling Day. The non-partisan restrictions on posters and banners remain unchanged. They are not allowed to denote any political party affiliation, given the nonpartisan character of the Presidential Election candidacy, said the Elections Department. An exemption under the Films Act has also been made to allow any individual to exhibit and distribute election campaign recordings as election advertising on the Internet, so long as the film does not distort or dramatise the election activity, and the film is not materially altered. President SR Nathan will not be seeking another term of office. So far, five Singaporeans have come forward to express their interest to contest the polls. Three of them have already submitted their forms for a Certificate of Eligibility from the Presidential Elections Committee chaired by the chairman of the Public Service Commission, Eddie Teo.

This guy used to be GCT's private secretary but ran with SDP during the last elections. Do we have an independant at last or is he a mole? You decide SINGAPORE: Opposition party member Tan Jee Say said he is stepping forward to contest the Presidential Election. Mr Tan collected forms for the Certificate of Eligibility from the Elections Department on Friday morning. In a statement, Mr Tan said he is doing so because many Singaporeans want a non-PAP President whose independence of the PAP is clear, obvious and cannot be in doubt. Mr Tan said only such a person can have the moral authority to fulfil the mission of Elected President which is to provide checks and balances on the PAP Government. He said he is aware of the constitutional limitations of the office of President but added that the office of President is what the President makes it out to be. "He can be as quiet and inactive as he chooses to be. Or he can be active. I want to be an active President, engaging the nation on issues of conscience and promoting worthy causes."

So funny but then is true I don't know what to say!!! If this happen in Parliament, sg gone liao. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_6x_5J78Rs...feature=related

By Alicia Wong | SingaporeScene

Alec Tok- Reform Party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnxL3Qdx0Hc

Totally unproven, but if you are interested...... Damning accusations hurled at PAP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw5hgssO5Iw...player_embedded This will be interesting....

I more or less hear b4 about how to be opposition candidate. But what about to be part of the PAP team? How to become a GE candidate for PAP? I see in papers have these young men in 30s asked to take part in the GE under PAP. How did they get selected by PAP? I was reading this article http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin...1113047/1/.html "On possible candidates, two new faces were spotted on Friday evening - 29-year-old Alex Yam and 35-year-old Desmond Lee. Both have been serving as grassroots leaders in Jurong GRC for about a month. Mr Yam is currently coordinating the new media activities of the various resident committees of Jurong, while Mr Lee oversees active ageing events." So i need to be grassroot leader for a month? That's all?

Grassroot organisation Chairman dumped pregnant mistress (updated) February 28th, 2011 | Author: Your Correspondent On 24th February 2011, the LianHe WanBao carried an article on a Singaporean married man dumping his pregnant mistress from Hong Kong and how he had cheated on her. Sindy Wong, the mistress got pregnant twice and on the first instance, he convinced her to abort the child citing health as a reason. On the second pregnancy, he again convinced her to abort the child but not after asking her if the child was his. One of our readers who claims to know the man has written in to reveal that the man is the Chairman of a grassroot organisation in Toa Payoh East, Mr Raymond Teoh Tham Kim who was once an Assistant Vice-President at Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. According to him, the mistress has a facebook page and had uploaded several pictures of her with Raymond Teoh, some intimately. One of the pictures on her facebook page was used in the WanBao article. He added that Raymond Teoh is married with one child and this is not the first time that he had an extra-marital affair. . Update Since the publishing of this news, more readers have contacted the Temasek Review, confirming that the said person is none other than Mr Raymond Teoh Tham Kim, RC Chairman of Toa Payoh East Zone 6 [Link]. One reader also pointed out that on Ms Sindy Wong

Do you agree or he is like planning his "road" to become Singapore's first elect president Monday, October 20, 2008 Right and decent thing to do for your citizens Extracted from: http://comment.straitstimes.com/showthread...?t=14228&page=2 If a war were to start today, the govt will immediately mobilise our NSmen in the country ' s defence, I have no doubt about that. NSmen will be reminded of their pledge to protect the nation and no doubt the PM and his cabinet will go whole hog on national TV to remind NSmen that they would be defending not only the country but their loved ones and remind them of the consequences should the enemy were to overrun this place. But when there is a crisis such as the present when thousands of Singaporeans watch helplessly as their life savings are going to literally disappeared into thin air THE SILENCE OF THE PM AND HIS CABINET IS VERY VERY DEAFENING AND TELLING INDEED! What has happened to all those theories about social, economic, military and psychological defence under the oft-repeated TOTAL DEFENCE concept promulgated by the govt? Are they all merely theories? Intended merely as propaganda to keep Singaporeans in line only? This current financial threat has dealt a massive blow to not only the economic defence but perhaps more importantly, the PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENCE OF SINGAPOREANS, thousands of whom have been accummulating through several decades of hard toil, sweat and even blood, funds for their retirement and old age, since the govt don ' t believe in welfarism. Didn ' t the govt, esp. the MM, said many many times before that the country ' s reserves is for a rainy day. Hasn ' t it been rainly badly enough on Singaporeans lately? How really bad must things get before Singaporeans may expect the govt to deign it bad ' enough ' to come to their rescue? Perhaps, some mass suicide? It is amazing that while it is all right to dump billions and billions into the BLACK HOLE of the likes of failed/failing American and European financial institutions, the govt seems to deem it fit to watch the unfolding drama and tragedy being played out at Hong Lim Park and in the mass media, with arms folded in apparent disinterest. This it is doing against a global background of countries like Hong Kong underwriting the losses of its citizens caught in this massive fraud. No, not this govt here, it would seems! It would prefer to watch the carnage of its citizens, without even a speck of guilty conscience that the govt, esp. the MAS, has a part to play for the desperate situation the citizens are in because it has failed to be good gatekeepers by allowing such high risk products for sale to innocent citizens whose only fault was to stretch their dollar (so that they might be less reliant on charity in their old age and the country in general). Instead, we see very obvious signs that the govt will be the last among nations to help its citizens AND only if whatever actions it follows will protect its competitiveness, not that it is the right and decent thing to do for your citizens. Posted by Tan Kin Lian at 8:21 AM Tan Kin Lian

By Sue-Ann Chia "Yaw Shin Leong says change of heart partly prompted by criticism against him." Personally, I will have a change of heart if what I believed in was proven wrong and not by criticisms from family or friends. WORKERS' Party (WP) leader Yaw Shin Leong, who won praise and criticism alike for disclosing that he had voted for the People's Action Party (PAP) in the 2006 General Election, now regrets the decision. The 32-year-old businessman said his change of heart came after 'introspection and contemplation' as he prepared to mark eight years of activism with the WP on June 24. 'I have woken up from this matrix-like slumber. Voting for a candidate from the ruling regime based on my shallow personal liking and consideration had contravened the very ideals which I had originally entered opposition politics for,' he said in the latest posting on his blog. 'It also contradicted our efforts in urging voters to value the choice provided by opposition candidates.' The Bukit Panjang resident said he would not vote for his MP, Dr Teo Ho Pin, at the next election, and urged Singaporeans to 'vote in solidarity to deny the PAP'. Mr Yaw, the WP's organising secretary, was caught in the eye of an online storm last month after saying that he had voted for Dr Teo over the Singapore Democratic Party's Mr Ling How Doong. Dr Teo was the better candidate, he had said, adding: 'There is nothing inherently wrong for me to vote for an MP, regardless of his/her partisan background, whom in my opinion is the better man who can better serve the interests of Singapore and my community.' That disclosure sparked criticism from opposition supporters who attacked him for voting for the 'other side', and for sending conflicting signals. He was, after all, head of the six-man WP team which stood against a PAP team led by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Ang Mo Kio GRC. But others praised him for his political maturity. Mr Yaw said, when contacted on Wednesday, that his change of heart was also prompted by the criticism he faced. Friends scolded him for letting them down. And strangers called or told him during his walkabouts that he had disappointed them. 'I realised I had sent a confusing message to supporters,' he told The Straits Times. 'Being an opposition member, I must put the need for pluralism as a higher priority than voting for a better municipal MP.' While party leaders did not rap him, WP chief and Hougang MP Low Thia Khiang did tell Mr Yaw that in voting for the better candidate, he had fallen into 'the propaganda trap of the PAP'. Mr Yaw said in his blog that the main consideration for many who voted for the WP was 'the need to have a balanced political system and a voice in Parliament...' And he accepted criticism that had Ang Mo Kio voters adopted his 'better candidate' argument, 'my team would not even come close to securing 33.86 per cent of the votes'. Despite what he said in his blog, Mr Yaw told The Straits Times that he did not want Singaporeans to vote for the opposition at all cost too. He said: 'I encourage Singaporeans to vote with their conscience. If they really feel that the opposition candidates are not deserving, don't support them.' Political observer Eugene Tan said Mr Yaw's latest post showed he had decided to put on the hat of an opposition politician instead of being just a 'responsible voter'.

Read today ST on Malaysia Election and stated : PAS gets lucky start in stronghold. Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) started off on a lucky footing in its defence of Kelantan yesterday when a woman candidate won a walkover for a state seat after her opponent was unexpectedly disqualified. Senator Wan Ubaidah Omar, 52, was declared the winner by the returning officer at the nomination centre in the Kelantan capital, after Mr Mustopha Ahmed from Barisan Nasional (BN) was found to be a bankrupt. BN officials said they would look into how background checks on Mr Mustopha, who is a State Telekom Malaysia director, did not show up the potential problem. Mr Mustopha admitted standing as a guarantor for a loan taken by his friend a few years ago. "Actually, my case as a guarantor had been settled. I will refer my case to my lawyer and party adviser for further action," he said That's is life in the land of the BOLEHs.................

http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,...,155753,00.html? I believe this year we all should change .... always give people a 2nd chance because people can change dont be quick to judge i believe this guy did much much much better than me while at o level pai sei congratulations to him NOW the real story GIVE THESE PEOPLE A 2ND CHANCE IN SOCIETY People make mistakes I work for a company that does not employ "these people" I am thinking of switching jobs