Wanna be 50/50 Punggol East candidate for PAP?

[Confuseous]

Whoever the PAP is approaching now (or soon) to be their candidate for Punggol East will weigh the odds very carefully. Michael Palmer, the previous PAP member of parliament who resigned suddenly after his extra-marital affair was exposed, won only 54.5 percent of the vote in the 2011 general election. If just one in ten of those voters defect to the opposition (and if the opposition do not put up more than one candidate), the PAP will lose the seat.

The prospective candidate will ask himself or herself: All that loss of privacy, becoming the target of brickbats and maybe vitriol — and should it be a victory, all the forthcoming years of weekly meet-the-people sessions, cutting ribbons and party discipline — is it worth it?

Much harder to calculate, but an increasingly major consideration, will be whether one even wants to be associated with the PAP brand...

- http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2...-punggol-east-may-be-harder-than-ever-before/

 

[Leongsam]

The prospective candidate will ask himself or herself: All that loss of privacy, becoming the target of brickbats and maybe vitriol —

It's not worth the money. $15,000 is nothing these days. Anyone worth their salt can earn that amount easily in the private sector without having to put up with all the shit that comes with the job.

Probably the only sinkies willing to do become MPs in today's climate would be senior military men who are facing the stark reality of either "accepting" the transfer from SAF to politics or ending up being unemployed for an extended period.

In the good old days, PAP MPs had a lot more leeway and were under far less scrutiny.

 

[mojito]

Men of loyalty are in short supply. If only we could have more foreign born MPs, things would be easier.

 

[ray_of_hope]

Whoever the PAP is approaching now (or soon) to be their candidate for Punggol East will weigh the odds very carefully. Michael Palmer, the previous PAP member of parliament who resigned suddenly after his extra-marital affair was exposed, won only 54.5 percent of the vote in the 2011 general election. If just one in ten of those voters defect to the opposition (and if the opposition do not put up more than one candidate), the PAP will lose the seat.

The prospective candidate will ask himself or herself: All that loss of privacy, becoming the target of brickbats and maybe vitriol — and should it be a victory, all the forthcoming years of weekly meet-the-people sessions, cutting ribbons and party discipline — is it worth it?

Much harder to calculate, but an increasingly major consideration, will be whether one even wants to be associated with the PAP brand...

- http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2...-punggol-east-may-be-harder-than-ever-before/

Is yawningbread running as the SDP candidate?

 

[kukubird58]

It's not worth the money. $15,000 is nothing these days. Anyone worth their salt can earn that amount easily in the private sector without having to put up with all the shit that comes with the job.

hahaha.....sam, spot on..
I, kukubird already makes more than SGD15,000 per month....
if I am half as smart as the wise pple here, I would be making many times the figure per month.