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who is WP super heavy weight candidate?
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No idea who he could be.
Just hope that he's not a pap loyalist who worked as a top civil servant for umpteen years and just because he was sidelined or sidetracked or is now retired, suddenly decides he wants to "serve the people".
Lim Boon Heng is the one !
You heard it here first.
You heard it here first.
They better screen through properly and not get a mole in.
Former high-flying civil servant - Mr Tan Jee Say, 57
Moles are already in place and well-positioned. Another one or several more makes no difference, as long as they serve their voters.
Another top ex-civil servant to join opposition?
April 15th, 2011
By Kor Kian Beng, Straits Times
IS ANOTHER former high-flying civil servant set to stand as an opposition candidate at the upcoming general election?
Mr Tan Jee Say, 57, previously a principal private secretary to Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, told The Straits Times last night that he was not ruling out the possibility.
‘It is interesting. I have not decided yet. But it is not outside the realm of possibilities,’ said Mr Tan.
The former Administrative Service officer declined to say whether he was leaning towards running as an independent or joining an opposition party. Nor did he want to name the party he would be open to joining.
Mr Tan was responding to talk that he was a candidate whom the Workers’ Party (WP) could field at the next polls.
Sources said Mr Tan was among two other ‘heavyweight’ candidates the WP had been keeping under wraps, apart from its ’star catch’ Chen Show Mao, 50, a Beijing-based corporate lawyer.
It is understood that Mr Tan and Mr Chen – a former Rhodes scholar who topped his 1979 cohort at the A levels and attended top universities overseas – have known each other for some time.
Sources also said Mr Tan had been earmarked as the WP’s candidate for the single-seat ward in Joo Chiat, where he lives.
If he did contest the polls, he would join the ranks of at least four former government scholarship holders to have enlisted in the opposition camp. There were none at the 2006 polls.
Mr Tan studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University. From 1985 to 1990, he was the principal private secretary to SM Goh, who was then deputy prime minister. Mr Tan left in 1990 to join Morgan Grenfell Asia.
Now a private investor, he has come up with a list of ideas for regenerating the Singapore economy, which he set out in a 45-page paper titled ‘Creating Jobs and Enterprise in a New Singapore Economy – Ideas for Change’.
Mr Tan spoke about his paper when he was a panellist at a post-Budget forum held by sociopolitical website The Online Citizen in February this year.
Since then, several opposition parties have courted him. He has met some of them, but he says he has not met any WP leader.
He added that he was amused by the talk. Asked if that meant it was true, he said: ‘It is speculation.’ – ST
April 15th, 2011
By Kor Kian Beng, Straits Times
IS ANOTHER former high-flying civil servant set to stand as an opposition candidate at the upcoming general election?
Mr Tan Jee Say, 57, previously a principal private secretary to Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, told The Straits Times last night that he was not ruling out the possibility.
‘It is interesting. I have not decided yet. But it is not outside the realm of possibilities,’ said Mr Tan.
The former Administrative Service officer declined to say whether he was leaning towards running as an independent or joining an opposition party. Nor did he want to name the party he would be open to joining.
Mr Tan was responding to talk that he was a candidate whom the Workers’ Party (WP) could field at the next polls.
Sources said Mr Tan was among two other ‘heavyweight’ candidates the WP had been keeping under wraps, apart from its ’star catch’ Chen Show Mao, 50, a Beijing-based corporate lawyer.
It is understood that Mr Tan and Mr Chen – a former Rhodes scholar who topped his 1979 cohort at the A levels and attended top universities overseas – have known each other for some time.
Sources also said Mr Tan had been earmarked as the WP’s candidate for the single-seat ward in Joo Chiat, where he lives.
If he did contest the polls, he would join the ranks of at least four former government scholarship holders to have enlisted in the opposition camp. There were none at the 2006 polls.
Mr Tan studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University. From 1985 to 1990, he was the principal private secretary to SM Goh, who was then deputy prime minister. Mr Tan left in 1990 to join Morgan Grenfell Asia.
Now a private investor, he has come up with a list of ideas for regenerating the Singapore economy, which he set out in a 45-page paper titled ‘Creating Jobs and Enterprise in a New Singapore Economy – Ideas for Change’.
Mr Tan spoke about his paper when he was a panellist at a post-Budget forum held by sociopolitical website The Online Citizen in February this year.
Since then, several opposition parties have courted him. He has met some of them, but he says he has not met any WP leader.
He added that he was amused by the talk. Asked if that meant it was true, he said: ‘It is speculation.’ – ST
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