James Gomez apologize
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If the PAP can made multi-million dollars 'honest mistakes', why can't James Gomez's apologies be accepted?
PAP trying to be saint but they forgot their own track records at 'honest mistakes' and 'u-turn policies'. -
Agree! In the telephone conversation script published by government, before the officer inform Gomez there is camera besides, it's Comez mentioned the camera first, so if Gomez is awear there is camera, it's no point for him to lie. It's a small human error.
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Has everyone forgotten to ask:
Why did the Staff - at the Elections Department attending to James Gomez - NOT CHECKED the numerous forms and paperwork that was submitted and immediately spot the missing paper BEFORE letting James Gomez leave ?
WHY did the Election Department Staff NOT SATISFY themselves that ALL THE PAPERWORK is correctly received to allow them to complete their work in attending to the Candidates ?
WHY IS the nomination process dependant on so much paperwork, when everything could have been paperless, and the process made simpler ?
From the flow path of the application process published by the Straits Times on Thursday, 27 April 2006, the numerous stages and paper-works is most daunting.
Any slip-up in at any stage, will result in DISQUALIFICATION. -
If WP at the 1st rally night asked for accountability, such issues would end up be raised
When I want to do something, I have better ensure once or twice that my purpose of going to place A is completed before leaving to place B...
Of course, this issue is overated -
It's your responsibility, so if that's the case, someone has to be responsible for my own action?Originally posted by Atobe:
Has everyone forgotten to ask:
Why did the Staff - at the Elections Department attending to James Gomez - NOT CHECKED the numerous forms and paperwork that was submitted and immediately spot the missing paper BEFORE letting James Gomez leave ?
WHY did the Election Department Staff NOT SATISFY themselves that ALL THE PAPERWORK is correctly received to allow them to complete their work in attending to the Candidates ?
WHY IS the nomination process dependant on so much paperwork, when everything could have been paperless, and the process made simpler ?
From the flow path of the application process published by the Straits Times on Thursday, 27 April 2006, the numerous stages and paper-works is most daunting.
Any slip-up in at any stage, will result in DISQUALIFICATION.
SDA in fact almost missed the deadline for submitting the political donations form until when being asked by the press during the canidate intro press release -
I am very surprised that our dear Straits Times have decided to put this as the Main Headlines at the front page for today's Sunday Times.. Now the PAP is attacking this weak flaws and sidestepping the other issues.. jumping to attack Gomez.. wonder why they don't harp on the million dollar pay that the ministers are getting..
Well at least he has the guts to apologise.. i don't see that happening any time soon for the PAP candidates if there should ever be one.. in fact.. it might all well be hidden up before anything is revealed to the masses..
I don't fancy how our elections dept can be so biased as well.. just shows how all .gov bodies are so pro-PAP..
this is pretty sickening.. but then again.. this is politics.. its not meant to be clean when you do all this mud-slinging.. -
Originally posted by sbst275:
While preparing my earlier post, I was also looking for the missing thread :
It's your responsibility, so if that's the case, someone has to be responsible for my own action?
SDA in fact almost missed the deadline for submitting the political donations form until when being asked by the press during the canidate intro press release
'Elections Department helping PAP candidate' - which I definitely saw a few days ago.
If that truly happened, and that 'EXTRA' civil service was extended to the candidate or candidates from the POWER OF ONE, why was the same NOT EXTENDED to the other candidates ?
When we submit our application forms to any organisation, it has always been the experience that the service staff will normally ensure that the forms are correctly filled and in the series required; this is to ensure that such misunderstanding as happened with James Gomez did not arise.
In the first place, in a FIRST WORLD COUNTRY that is supposedly reputed for efficiency and high technology, and supposedly to be moving away into a PAPERLESS SOCIETY - WHY are the Candidates subjected to a series of procedures that will and can only lead to hiccups ?
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Originally posted by Atobe:
Politics is stinking in the 1st place
While preparing my earlier post, I was also looking for the missing thread :
'Elections Department helping PAP candidate' - which I definitely saw a few days ago.
If that truly happened, and that 'EXTRA' civil service was extended to the candidate or candidates from the POWER OF ONE, why was the same NOT EXTENDED to the other candidates ?
When we submit our application forms to any organisation, it has always been the experience that the service staff will normally ensure that the forms are correctly filled and in the series required; this is to ensure that such misunderstanding as happened with James Gomez did not arise.
In the first place, in a FIRST WORLD COUNTRY that is supposedly reputed for efficiency and high technology, and supposedly to be moving away into a PAPERLESS SOCIETY - WHY are the Candidates subjected to a series of procedures that will and can only lead to hiccups ?
Is this a purposefully designed obstacle course to begin with ?
Just dun get yourself be into the wrong limelight -
whatever the case, I believe something similar happened to him at the last elections, that's funny .... not once, but twice ? ....
even if it was indeed a purposely designed obstacle, surely one would expect him to have learnt his lesson, and be more careful this time, no ? .... let's see what happens in another 5 years ...
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I so agree.Originally posted by Ecxentrique:I am very surprised that our dear Straits Times have decided to put this as the Main Headlines at the front page for today's Sunday Times.. Now the PAP is attacking this weak flaws and sidestepping the other issues.. jumping to attack Gomez.. wonder why they don't harp on the million dollar pay that the ministers are getting..
Well at least he has the guts to apologise.. i don't see that happening any time soon for the PAP candidates if there should ever be one.. in fact.. it might all well be hidden up before anything is revealed to the masses..
I don't fancy how our elections dept can be so biased as well.. just shows how all .gov bodies are so pro-PAP..
this is pretty sickening.. but then again.. this is politics.. its not meant to be clean when you do all this mud-slinging..
I was dam sick when I read the today's Sunday Times.
It appears that the biggest issue in singapore now is about a piece of paper!
Has the newspaper has nothing else to report on?
No wonder its ranked 140th! -
at least gomez apologized already last night in the rally.
it takes great courage to apologized in the public. the media shldn't have play up the issue. -
What is James Gomez issue compared to the N** issue!!!
Thinking logically, which human dun err?
Always wrong thing being emphasize.... This society is seriously having problem. -
electionhas become a war of words......
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NKF?? Why no one pointed out CAO???Originally posted by thinker:What is James Gomez issue compared to the N** issue!!!
Thinking logically, which human dun err?
Always wrong thing being emphasize.... This society is seriously having problem. -
The press is exdtremely bias in their election reporting. It obvious that their job is to portray the PAP in a favourable light. whaz the point of banning podacasting when our pressreporting is so one sided. we need to ban the straits times from reporting on the elction.
Its intersting the PAP talks about accountability.. where is the accountability in the Prime Ministers office, The ministry of finance, GIC and Temasek. God knows what goes on behind the closed doors. -
abt time to do our "silent" protest in the election......Originally posted by gill_hfc:The press is exdtremely bias in their election reporting. It obvious that their job is to portray the PAP in a favourable light. whaz the point of banning podacasting when our pressreporting is so one sided. we may as well ban the straits times for reporting on the elction.
Its intersting the PAP talks about acountability.. where is the accountability in the Prime Ministers office, The ministry of finance, GIS and Temasek. God knows what goes on behind the closed doors. -
Politics is never cleanOriginally posted by gill_hfc:The press is exdtremely bias in their election reporting. It obvious that their job is to portray the PAP in a favourable light. whaz the point of banning podacasting when our pressreporting is so one sided. we need to ban the straits times from reporting on the elction.
Its intersting the PAP talks about accountability.. where is the accountability in the Prime Ministers office, The ministry of finance, GIC and Temasek. God knows what goes on behind the closed doors.
But if we can have opp members like Ling How Doong, it also creates a -ve impression -
character assassination
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This idiot james gomez is ruining worker party chance of winning over aljunied residents. If he did not submit then he shouldn't have join the election, is a real shame to see that worker party chances are been ruin by him...
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I am glad that this year i be able to vote as SDP are coming to my area to fight with pap, although SDP will certainly lose out, but i still hope they give pap a good fight for their money!
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They tend to make a small issue BIG
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He should bring his parent, grand parent to let our singaporean see and ensured that he is royal blood.
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frankly if i could vote...this would have mattered to me...since he is part of my consituency candidates...given his previous mistake from the last election...makes me wonder really...
but since i can't...i think the PAP is just trying to pick flesh from bones...trying to pick every mistake...citing this matter is the crux of the election...
i mean wtf...he just forgotten to hand in the forms... -
I believe what Mr George Yeo said
Politics aside, his argument with the ED's staff could have caused the lady into trouble. Any allegation made, she might be suspended from duty over a certain of period. So who's going to be responsible for that? -
He asked them to check the cameras didn't he? How can that lady be suspended without proof?Originally posted by sbst275:I believe what Mr George Yeo said
Politics aside, his argument with the ED's staff could have caused the lady into trouble. Any allegation made, she might be suspended from duty over a certain of period. So who's going to be responsible for that?