PA says why the Empire must support Vader

[steffychun]

Why opposition MPs can't be advisers to grassroots bodies



WE REFER to Mr Muhammad Yusuf Osman's letter yesterday ('Advisers to grassroots bodies should be elected MPs').

The mission of the People's Association (PA) and its grassroots organisations (GROs) is to bond the community and connect people with the Government. PA and its GROs serve all residents regardless of their political affiliations in fulfilling their role. (The mission of the Empire is to carry out the orders of Vader and Palpatine).

Grassroots advisers are appointed by PA, a statutory board. Besides connecting people to people, grassroots advisers are required to help the Government connect with people and help promote government policies and programmes such as anti-dengue and active ageing.

Hence, the Government has to appoint grassroots advisers who support its programmes and can play this role well. Opposition MPs cannot be expected to do this and thus cannot become advisers to GROs. (Luke Skywalker cannot be the adviser because he is the enemy)

Ooi Hui Mei (Ms)
Director
Corporate and Marketing Communications
For Chief Executive Director
People's Association

 

[tanwahtiu]

Ridiculous! Outrages and nonsense,

PA is tax payers funded monies and PAP is not government. PAP is a party with elected MPs to serve the people of Singapore and role is a civil servants. Opposition party is just a name sake to diferent between a ruling party and an alternative ruling party and the alternative party could be 1 independant party or 81 of them. Ruling and opposition parties are voters elected to represent in parliment.

PA should know how to stand is an independant organisation.

Why opposition MPs can't be advisers to grassroots bodies



WE REFER to Mr Muhammad Yusuf Osman's letter yesterday ('Advisers to grassroots bodies should be elected MPs').

The mission of the People's Association (PA) and its grassroots organisations (GROs) is to bond the community and connect people with the Government. PA and its GROs serve all residents regardless of their political affiliations in fulfilling their role. (The mission of the Empire is to carry out the orders of Vader and Palpatine).

Grassroots advisers are appointed by PA, a statutory board. Besides connecting people to people, grassroots advisers are required to help the Government connect with people and help promote government policies and programmes such as anti-dengue and active ageing.

Hence, the Government has to appoint grassroots advisers who support its programmes and can play this role well. Opposition MPs cannot be expected to do this and thus cannot become advisers to GROs. (Luke Skywalker cannot be the adviser because he is the enemy)

Ooi Hui Mei (Ms)
Director
Corporate and Marketing Communications
For Chief Executive Director
People's Association

 

[LeMans2011]

I would have expected the Director of Corporate Communications to put forward a stronger argument. Opposition does not support BAD government policies, not ALL government policies. What an idiot.

PA should be disbanded, otherwise funds should come from PAP party funds. I hope WP brings this up in Parliament.

 

[Confuseous]

I would have expected the Director of Corporate Communications to put forward a stronger argument. Opposition does not support BAD government policies, not ALL government policies. What an idiot.

PA should be disbanded, otherwise funds should come from PAP party funds. I hope WP brings this up in Parliament.

Aiyah, the Director of Corporate Communications just signed the letter, drafted by CEO Yam Ah Mee, and approved by Special Adviser Crocodile Tears Lim Boon Heng, Chairman LHL, vetted by board members Kee Chiew Chan, DISGRACE Fu, Invisible Masagof. Yam Ah Mee has been hung out to dry by his bosses and in turn, the bugger got his Corp Communications woman to sign the letter - this is leadership for you, ala Singapura lah. Maju lah, Singapura!

 

[steffychun]

The dark side of the force is strong indeed...

 

[red amoeba]

why dun opp pty go and form a Association of Ppl...to counter PA?

do suit and appoint advisors in all PAP constituencies...

 

[steffychun]

why dun opp pty go and form a Association of Ppl...to counter PA?

do suit and appoint advisors in all PAP constituencies...

And name it Anti-PA

 

[bic_cherry]

Why opposition MPs can't be advisers to grassroots bodies
WE REFER to Mr Muhammad Yusuf Osman's letter yesterday ('Advisers to grassroots bodies should be elected MPs').
The mission of the People's Association (PA) and its grassroots organisations (GROs) is to bond the community and connect people with the Government. PA and its GROs serve all residents regardless of their political affiliations in fulfilling their role. (The mission of the Empire is to carry out the orders of Vader and Palpatine).

Grassroots advisers are appointed by PA, a statutory board. Besides connecting people to people, grassroots advisers are required to help the Government connect with people and help promote government policies and programmes such as anti-dengue and active ageing.
Hence, the Government has to appoint grassroots advisers who support its programmes and can play this role well. Opposition MPs cannot be expected to do this and thus cannot become advisers to GROs. (Luke Skywalker cannot be the adviser because he is the enemy)
Ooi Hui Mei (Ms)
Director
Corporate and Marketing Communications
For Chief Executive Director
People's Association

Some people will indeed do/ say anything for money:

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PS:
I think PM Lee rearranged the members of the PA after the last GE (MBT not member anymore); 28Feb2011:

2009/10 Board:

(Source: http://www.famousquotesabout.com/on/Dictatorship)

References: (PM Lee's misuse of the PA for PAP partisan objectives):
- 'Upgrading in Opposition Wards- MPs should front initiative': "Why did the HDB choose to work with unelected candidates instead of the elected MPs in the constituencies?.. shouldn't the mandate that the residents gave to the elected MPs be respected?" [ST, 07Oct2009]

- 'How PAP uses taxpayer-funded grassroots for political gain': "The People’s Association (PA), ..Like all other stat boards, it receives a yearly grant from the government to run its programmes and cover operational costs. .. It spent a total of $320 million last year. However unlike most stat boards, whose chairmen are usually the permanent secretary of the parent ministry or some other senior civil servant, PA’s chairman is none other than the Prime Minister [pict][board]. The de facto leader of all the CCCs, CCMCs, RCs and NCs in each constituency is known as the “adviser to the grassroots organisations (GROs)”. This adviser is appointed by PA, presumably with the nod of its chairman, the Prime Minister. In PAP constituencies, PA always appoints the elected MP as the adviser. But in opposition wards, PA appoints the PAP candidate who lost in the last election, not the opposition MP" [G Giam, 10Oct2009].

- '‘Adviser over MP’ raises many questions': "PAP MPs are appointed as advisers to the grassroots organisations in their wards by the People’s Association (PA). In the two opposition wards, the PA picked the PAP candidates who contested but lost in the wards in the last two polls as the grassroots advisers." [ST, 22Oct2009][alt link]

- 'MND continues to throw smoke bombs over role of PAP 'grassroots advisers'': "There is absolutely no reason why opposition MPs cannot be appointed as grassroots advisers unless they decline to work with the government. The root cause of the problem lies in the lack of a clearly defined demarcation between the state and the party which resulted in many supposedly apolitical institutions like the People’s Association being made use of by the PAP to serve its partisan interests.
As the People’s Association is a statutory board, its members and grassroots advisers should have no political affiliations.
It is disingenuous of the PAP to appoint their losing candidates to continue “serving” in the opposition wards under the veneer of being the “grassroots advisers” appointed by the PA." [TR, 27Oct2009][alt link]

- 'Town Council Act (CAP 329A) states clearly that Govt must work with Town Councils (run by MPs) to implement LUP': "It is a joke that for some strange reasons or another, Mr Shanmugan’s ministerial colleague has refused to obey the Town Councils Act by choosing not to work with Hougang Town Council and even has the audacity to TWIST the facts by claiming that 'it is the role of the grassroots advisers to implement the LUP' through his press secretary when it was stated NOWHERE in the Town Councils Act that the LUP has to be carried out by the grassroots advisers! From beginning to end, there was no mention of the words 'Grassroots advisers', 'People Association' or 'PAP losing candidates' and so how did Mr Eric Low come into the picture at all? " [TR, 29Oct2009][alt link]

- 'Grassroots Organizations should stay non-partisan': "By appointing PAP candidates as grassroots advisers in Opposition held wards, the government is effectively bringing partisan politics into governmental institutions. Using the PA as a vehicle for PAP candidates as grounds to gain political capital so that they may fight their next battle with more goodwill, the governmental risks costing itself the position of Singapore as a Parliamentary Democracy; and put Singapore in par with communist states like Cuba, China and North Korea." [TR, 03Nov2009][alt site]

- 'PAP has blurred line between State and party': "THE cry for multi-party representation in Parliament is the People's Action Party's own doing.. The PAP has blurred the line between the State and the party: What belongs to the State belongs to the PAP... The People's Association becomes a PAP instrument... The money belongs to the State". [STforum, 13Apr2011][alt link]

- Chang NY: 'Delink political affiliations of grassroots bodies': "I would like to suggest that the People's Association (PA) be run like a civil service organisation in order to single-mindedly and unmistakably carry out its sole purpose of serving the people. Board members of the PA should not hold any political office. There is then no conflict of interests." [ST,4June2011][alt link]

 

[steffychun]

CCS face isnt there.

 

[Windsor]

Steffychun you are trying my patience by posting the same thread in this section: http://singsupplies.com/showthread.php?100413-Why-Opposition-MPs-Can-t-Be-Advisers-To-Grassroots-Bodies.

Besides that I have been ignoring the continuous spamming of most of the threads. Please stop this as you are annoying many of us here.

 

[steffychun]

Steffychun you are trying my patience by posting the same thread in this section: http://singsupplies.com/showthread.php?100413-Why-Opposition-MPs-Can-t-Be-Advisers-To-Grassroots-Bodies.

Besides that I have been ignoring the continuous spamming of most of the threads. Please stop this as you are annoying many of us here.

I do not post in singsupplies.com

You patience can be test with Chee.

 

[Windsor]

I do not post in singsupplies.com

You patience can be test with Chee.

Take a look at your thread: http://singsupplies.com/showthread.php?100378-PA-says-why-the-Empire-must-support-Vader

Tell me it is not singsupplies.com. Are you nuts or what?

 

[Confuseous]

Was it poor political judgment? Many seem to think so. A few, however, believe it was done deliberately to show the public the sort of ultra-constitutional powers the PAP has.

- http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/unexpected-benefit-workers-party-133409012.html