{"id":2453,"date":"2008-10-12T23:14:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T15:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/10\/12\/bn-club-to-attract-more-voters\/"},"modified":"2008-10-12T23:15:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T15:15:09","slug":"bn-club-to-attract-more-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/10\/12\/bn-club-to-attract-more-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"BN Club to attract more voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After outgoing (won&#8217;t be long before he is labeled lame duck) PM Badawi mooted plans to allow people to join BN directly without be a member of its component parties, many lauded it as a great idea. Hishamuddin even said that its his grandpa Onn Jaafar&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/10\/12\/nation\/2256967&amp;sec=nation\">wisdom is being appreciated now<\/a>.<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/10\/12\/nation\/2256207&amp;sec=nation\"><br \/>Two people disagree<\/a>. Ahmad Shabery mentioned some nonsense about its like dissolving UMNO and a humiliation, while the other is Samy Vellu. He said the &#8220;direct membership is not the only answer&#8230;&#8221;. While some MIC folks are jumping to ship to opposition, others may just join this new club, leaving Samy in charge of a skeleton party. A bit far-fetched I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Even though PM Badawi mentioned it at Gerakan assembly, Deputy PM <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/10\/12\/nation\/2256153&amp;sec=nation\">announced<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barisan Nasional is coming up with the terms and conditions to allow people to join the coalition without having to be members of component parties, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe principle is quite acceptable. The management committee will look into the appropriate structure as well as terms and conditions to allow people to apply directly to join Barisan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>PM-elect in control of things.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After outgoing (won&#8217;t be long before he is labeled lame duck) PM Badawi mooted plans to allow people to join BN directly without be a member of its component parties, many lauded it as a great idea. Hishamuddin even said that its his grandpa Onn Jaafar&#8217;s wisdom is being appreciated now.Two people disagree. Ahmad Shabery [&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":[131,122,225],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-bn","tag-najib-tun-razak","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","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=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}