In the House, just so few of us...
We are out-numbered! Looking at the YouTube video here, the cause is noble, but the voice feeble. There are just so few who can speak up, or willing to speak up for Malaysia.
As at 12.55hr...
Donations received:
1 ) Maybank2U: RM12,541.00
2 ) PayPal: US$1,307.56 net after handling fee.
It's amazing to see Malaysians, who stay in the country but have been earning PayPal credits through their online activities, are transferring their Greenbacks to Jeff 4 Malaysia! (I will figure out later how to mobilise the money as PayPal doesn't repatriate money into any Malaysian banks!
With the latest tally, that's about 15% of the target for this online campaign, i.e. to raise RM100,000 from readers of this blog.
Election Commission allows a maximum expenditure of RM200,000, for Parliament seat. I am targetting to raise 50% from donors at large, you readers, and the other 50% from internal resources and personal contacts.
The money will go into running the operations centre and polling machinery, printing and disseminating of election collaterals (including candidates' flyers and pamphlets running by tens of thousands), campaign ceramahs and feeding the army little troop of volunteers who will take leave, drop all tools, to help me.
To all who donate -- no amount is too small, a little few hundreds from here and there will do the job -- I will reciprocate your support each with an autographed copy of my book: i-Witness.
It's a compilation of my articles from 2002 to 2007 about Knowledge-based Economy, and about how to transform Penang's economic model in the context of K-economy. It will be released on Nomination Day, February 24.
RUNNING AGAINST KOH TSU KOON?
The Star said I will be standing for the Jelutung parliament seat while the vernacular press in Penang say Chief Minister Koh Tsu Koon will also stand in the same constituency.
If both reports are true, I will, again, be the David versus the Goliath.
After weeks of rigorous groundwork, I find myself very vulnerable facing this General Election. The BN machinery, with $$$ to throw, is immensely formidable.
If you could help me raise some campaign funds, and do it superfast, please email me at jeff001 @ jeffooi.com. Or drop me an SMS at my exclusive data line: +6012-2944907.
For those who want to cut the chase, you can Maybank2U or ATM to my MBB Subang Jaya Account:
Name: OOI CHUAN AUN
Number: 512222409165
Please forward this blog entry to your friends and pass the word around. Thanks.
BACKGROUNDER
There are 7 Parliament seats allocated to DAP and four are incumbents, three yet-to-win seats are Jelutung, Bukit Bendera and Batu Kawan -- all retained by Gerakan during GE2004 -- and I have been proposed to run in one of them.
The fact is, there is practically no safe seat for the Opposition in Penang. What more, Bukit Bendera is the 1-Parliament-4-state seat and a star-studded BN stronghold now represented by the deputy Minister of Information, the Penang Chief Minister, the senior State Exco and the deputy Speaker of the State Assembly, plus a one-term state assemblyman.
But the call of national duty is definitely prompting me. I need to do what I wanted to do in JEFF 4 MALAYSIA campaign, and I have made some details here, to explain the mission. The state Election Manifesto, which I helped draft, will be release at the right time. I am certain that talk is cheap and beyond being a blogger, I need a legislator role to speak up for Malaysians!
Comments
Good that you have put your a/c no here. No need for people to email you and ask for it.
BTW the RM 200K limit on expenditure is a big joke. It is an open secret that BN candidates spend many times above that.
In fact when I was young and foolish I was a "volunteer" at Koh Tsu Koon's first election campaign in 1982. My job was to fill up the notices to voters telling them their polling stations. I did a quick calculation, just the expenses at his campaign HQ already exceed the limit. I was paid RM 15 per day (in 1982), for a student pretty good money. So maybe I was not so foolish after all.
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February 18, 2008 02:12 PM
Jeff, a little off topic but I hope you can relay this message to the DAP leaders.
DAP has a strong chance to create some sort of changes this coming GE but why must the incumbent like Lim Hock Seng of Bagan & Phee Boon Poh of Sg Puyu have to be moved to accomodate other leaders. These 2 seats are already in hand, confirmed DAP seat, why must DAP tweak it?
Move Karpal and Guan Eng to those seat that DAP lost in the last GE and fight it out like true fighters. Respect needs to be earned. The sooner DAP get their house in order, the better it is. And why fret over Sg. Siput, let PSM and BN fight it out after all DAP lost their deposit in the last election.
I hope to see a more sober and realistic DAP come nomination day.
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February 18, 2008 03:29 PM
why the spr website for checking voter status has the Serial Number at the bottom row? Another way to track us? I knwo they will take out serial number in the paper (vote), why put in the website now?
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February 18, 2008 03:53 PM
Jeff,
Perhaps you can elaborate on how readers can contribute in other forms as well (i.e. volunteering as party observers for the ballot counting). Any opportunities on that front?
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February 18, 2008 06:04 PM
Honestly, I hates campaign poster. It creates tons of rubbish and it is ugly everywhere.
It cost RM10,000 - 15,000 just for the stupid poster war that serve little after the campaign. A calender name card is much more useful.
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February 18, 2008 10:40 PM
recently paypal allowed sending paypal fund to your credit card.
https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/
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February 19, 2008 12:18 AM
Hi Jeff, please be informed that one can transfer their paypal credit into their Mastercard account, be it a debit card or credit card.
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February 19, 2008 01:47 AM
Jeff,
Just a suggestion, you may want to state your MBB swift code for malaysian living in oversea to TT the money to your account.
Bob
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February 19, 2008 08:26 AM
"Hi Jeff, please be informed that one can transfer their paypal credit into their Mastercard account, be it a debit card or credit card."
Not Master but Visa :)
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February 26, 2008 04:03 AM
I support you 100%. I have donated some money to you through Maybank2u. Although is not a big amount but hope it helps in some way.
It is good that at least we can get the number of opposition number up so that the country can save from corruption.
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February 27, 2008 09:15 AM