To Chief Minister, with concern

(by penang3brothers)

The following email was sent to the Chief Minister of Penang on 23rd November 2009

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YB Tuan Lim Guan Eng

Chief Minister Penang

Dear YB Lim,

First and foremost Congratulations on your successful campaigning and eventual victory in resting, or shall we say liberating, the state of Penang from Barisan National.

It was a miraculous and unbelievable moment in our lives because we thought it was near impossible for ‘change’ to happen. But indeed it did take place, historically.

We waited for this moment for a very long time, right from the first assault launched by your father, YB Lim Kit Siang, with mission ‘Tanjong’ in 1986, followed by ‘Tanjong’ 2 and 3 in 1990 and 1995, respectively.

In 1990 when your father defeated the then Chief Minister Tun Dr. Lim Chong Eu, for the Padang Kota State seat, we, for once believed that finally the Opposition had captured Penang. We were overwhelmingly confident that since the Chief Minister himself was defeated surely, surely, the State was captured by DAP. But as fate would have it, the final count was Opposition 14 seats against Barisan’s 19.

Ahhh!!!!……we were utterly dejected to a point of being speechless; we could not even cry…..it was so close and yet……………….

In 1995, during the election campaign, when we first saw the poster of your father, YB Lim Kit Siang, with the caption “Chief Minister with Power’’, we told our friends and family “now that’s how a Chief Minister should look like, very stern and yet elegant’’

We were there on 20^th November 1995, the eve of polling day at Macallum Flats playground for the final mammoth rally of the DAP. We were waiting with anticipation for the emergence of the last speaker of the night. When the DAP song was played signifying the arrival of your father, the whole crowd of about 20,000 people went wild with cheers. Your father was given a hero’s welcome with a roaring and thunderous applause from the frenzied crowd. The atmosphere was electrifying. We thought to ourselves, ‘‘this is it, the time has come, and we are looking at the next Chief Minister’’.

……but then again, the huge crowd did not translate into votes…..we were very sad and dejected. It was then that we gave up hope on our dreams to see changes/improvement in the political scenario of our beloved state of Penang.

Now, after 22 years since the first ‘Tanjong’ battle cry in 1986, what eluded your father was captured by your goodself.

We sincerely felt that you deserve to be appointed as the Chief Minister (apart from many other reasons including your level of education) especially for the one noble deed where you fought and paid a heavy price by sacrificing your freedom in defending the plight of a 15 year old Malay girl. We SALUTE you for that.

We can and we do proudly say that our Chief Minister fought for justice, fought for truth, fought for the oppressed and fought for equal rights.

YB Lim, now that the dream of capturing Penang from Barisan National has become a reality, its time the Pakatan Rakyat, especially DAP, to move on and show to the rest of the World what it means by good governance.

Recently there were many allegations against the State Government, particularly against your goodself, such as not fulfilling your electoral promises, allegations of mismanagement, accusations of betrayal by certain villagers and so on……

YB Lim, we believe that Penang cannot be transformed nor can the mismanagement of the previous Government be rectified within these 21 months that you had taken over, but YB Lim, we strongly feel that what is lacking from your side is INFORMATION to the general public on current issues/scandals/controversies plaguing the Government of Penang.

Currently there are so many blogs carrying negative remarks/stories/allegations of your Administration. We are having a hard time deciding on what to believe and what not to.

We are and we will support the Pakatan Rakyat Government of Penang but how are we going to do so when we can’t even speak to our friends and relatives on the actual facts/truths of the matter. Where are we supposed to get the right information?

We would like to suggest to your goodself to please provide a media, a blog for instance, where we could seek for the truth or in other words YOUR side of the story (so to speak) and if at present there is such a site/blog that undertakes in disseminating your views/points/explanations on these current issues in Penang, please guide us to that source.

Maybe there might be some news being carried in the Chinese Daily but then again how many Chinese in Penang can read/write Mandarin? How many of those who can, subscribe to these Dailies? How about the non-Chinese?

YB Lim, we wish to see your governance of our beloved Penang to continue for many years to come but you can’t achieve that without us, the people, the layman and the voters.

The next General Election would most probably will be called somewhere in late 2011 or early 2012, since the present Federal Government would not wait too long to launch their campaign in capturing what they lost. Which means, YB Lim, you only have another 24 to 30 months !!!.

Please help us to help you, in helping Pakatan Rakyat in retaining Penang in the next General election.

Looking forward to hearing from your goodself.

Thank you very much and have a nice day.

Penang3Brothers

‘Inspired by Frustration’

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