{"id":2115,"date":"2008-06-29T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T16:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/06\/29\/cronyism-in-pkr-led-selangor\/"},"modified":"2008-06-29T00:21:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T16:21:33","slug":"cronyism-in-pkr-led-selangor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/06\/29\/cronyism-in-pkr-led-selangor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronyism in PKR led Selangor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly speaking, I can&#8217;t accept the ridiculous <a href=\"http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/85242\" target=\"_blank\">reason<\/a> given by Rusli, Anwar&#8217;s younger brother that both Anwar and MB Khalid Ibrahim never knew of his appointment as Kumpulan Darul Ehsan Berhad&#8217;s (KDEB) special advisor in APRIL, just a month after general elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rusli said that in April, he was appointed special advisor to KDEB<br \/>\npresident Abdul Karim Munisar with no executive power and is not a<br \/>\nmember of the board of director in any companies held by KDEB<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Its not a matter of knowing or not knowing, but a critical issue of public perception. Surely the brother is not so stupid to realise the implications when people hear about his appointment, given that KDEB is state owned investment arm. This is the sacrifice that people in politics have to make. When a person joins politics and hold (virtual) power, the whole family plus relations suffer due to the public&#8217;s expection of ethics. He should have not accepted the position in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>If people can question Mahathir, Badawi, Samy Vellu, Ong Ka Ting, Ling Liong Sik, etc., surely can question  Anwar! This is not &#8220;baseless accusations&#8221; but the perception created in the eyes of the public.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Rusli has <a href=\"http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/85242\" target=\"_blank\">resigned<\/a>, the damaged has been done. More ammo for BN and especially Toyo&#8217;s Selangor BN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly speaking, I can&#8217;t accept the ridiculous reason given by Rusli, Anwar&#8217;s younger brother that both Anwar and MB Khalid Ibrahim never knew of his appointment as Kumpulan Darul Ehsan Berhad&#8217;s (KDEB) special advisor in APRIL, just a month after general elections. Rusli said that in April, he was appointed special advisor to KDEB president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[62,147],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-pkr","tag-selangor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}