A Travesty Waiting to Happen (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} hahabird) wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} sg_ljers,@ 2008-05-16 01:00:00 |
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I voted for PAP in 2006 elections: WP candidate
Taken off the Straits Times:
"How should an opposition leader vote in a general election (GE), especially one who is contesting the polls?
For Workers' Party leader (Yaw Shin Leong), he voted for the ruling People's Action Party candidate in the 2006 GE - and has now found himself in the eye of an online storm.
Mr Yaw, a Bukit Panjang resident, had revealed in his blog that he voted for the PAP's Teo Ho Pin who was contesting the single-member ward against Singapore Democratic Party chairman and former opposition MP Ling How Doong.
The disclosure was just a one-liner: - Teo Ho Pin (MP) - Good MP. I voted for him in GE06."
Frankly I don't see the problem in voting for the PAP in a ward that your party isn't contesting in, and against a party that you don't belong to. The Opposition parties did agree not to contest each other's wards, but it was simply an obligation to vote for anyone BUT a PAP candidate, not a stipulation or inked agreement between the Opposition parties.
I mean seriously, what's the deal and why is everyone so pissed off? It's not as if he exercised his position to influence multiple votes; it appears to be a rather personal decision. You could argue on the basis of principle, but that would simply paint him as an irrational person.
For the record, I voted Opposition the last time I had a chance to. And it's a pretty shitty headline - technically it's the truth, but with a sentence like that the editor's sensationalized it to the point where perceptions are negatively enhanced. OMG TRAITORZ
At least it proves one thing - the fact that people are miffed about this "betrayal" underlines how much the ruling party is not thought of kindly. Thank God we've still got at least that.
Taken off the Straits Times:
"How should an opposition leader vote in a general election (GE), especially one who is contesting the polls?
For Workers' Party leader (Yaw Shin Leong), he voted for the ruling People's Action Party candidate in the 2006 GE - and has now found himself in the eye of an online storm.
Mr Yaw, a Bukit Panjang resident, had revealed in his blog that he voted for the PAP's Teo Ho Pin who was contesting the single-member ward against Singapore Democratic Party chairman and former opposition MP Ling How Doong.
The disclosure was just a one-liner: - Teo Ho Pin (MP) - Good MP. I voted for him in GE06."
Frankly I don't see the problem in voting for the PAP in a ward that your party isn't contesting in, and against a party that you don't belong to. The Opposition parties did agree not to contest each other's wards, but it was simply an obligation to vote for anyone BUT a PAP candidate, not a stipulation or inked agreement between the Opposition parties.
I mean seriously, what's the deal and why is everyone so pissed off? It's not as if he exercised his position to influence multiple votes; it appears to be a rather personal decision. You could argue on the basis of principle, but that would simply paint him as an irrational person.
For the record, I voted Opposition the last time I had a chance to. And it's a pretty shitty headline - technically it's the truth, but with a sentence like that the editor's sensationalized it to the point where perceptions are negatively enhanced. OMG TRAITORZ
At least it proves one thing - the fact that people are miffed about this "betrayal" underlines how much the ruling party is not thought of kindly. Thank God we've still got at least that.
