Gerakan kutuk tindakan ganas pada Keluarga Teressa

bernama | Parti Gerakan mengutuk perbuatan melempar bom molotov cocktail ke rumah keluarga Anggota Parlimen Seputeh, Teresa Kok di Kuala Lumpur awal pagi tadi dan meminta kerajaan dan pihak polis menyiasat dan mengambil tindakan segera kepada pihak yang terbabit.

"Kami sangat terganggu dengan tindakan ganas kedua seumpama ini yang berlaku dalam tempoh kurang daripada dua bulan. Pada awal Ogos ini, molotov cocktail turut dilempar ke rumah yang pernah diduduki Presiden Majlis Peguam, Datuk S. Ambiga," kata Pemangku Presiden Gerakan, Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon dalam satu kenyataan.

Beliau berkata walaupun Gerakan mungkin tidak bersetuju dengan pendirian dan pendekatan Teresa dan pemimpin pembangkang yang lain mengenai sesetengah isu, namun Gerakan menghormati hak mereka untuk menyatakan pendapat.

Koh berkata mereka yang tidak bersetuju dengan Teresa, perlu berani untuk berdepan dengannya menerusi perbincangan atau perdebatan yang aman.

"Tiada siapa yang boleh bertindak mengikut undang-undang sendiri. Bertindak secara ganas seperti ini adalah perbuatan pengecut," katanya.

Tindakan ganas dan tidak mengikut undang-undang hanya akan memburukkan lagi suasana ketidaktentuan ekonomi dan politik semasa negara, tambahnya.

Rumah ibu bapa Teresa Kok dilontar bom petrol

utusan | Kediaman ibu bapa anggota Parlimen Seputeh Teresa Kok di Jalan Ipoh di sini dilontar bom petrol awal pagi ini.

Perkara itu disahkan sendiri oleh Teresa ketika dihubungi hari ini.

Anggota Exco kerajaan negeri Selangor itu akan mengadakan sidang akhbar tengah hari ini di rumah ibu bapanya berhubung insiden itu.

Teresa dibebaskan daripada tahanan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) pada 19 Sept lepas setelah ditahan selama tujuh hari.

Ketua Polis Daerah Sentul ACP Zakaria Pagan yang dihubungi mengesahkan insiden itu berlaku kira-kira 2.55 pagi.... selanjutnya.

Teresa Kok mengakui tersilap...

malaysiakini | ...Teresa, yang pada mulanya menafikan membuat kenyataan berhubung 'makanan anjing' tersebut, juga berkata sewaktu ditahan dalam bilik selepas 6 X 8 kaki, beliau hanya diberi air dan roti atau dua biji telur rebus serta kari untuk makanannya.

"Okay, baiklah, Anda temui kesilapan saya dengan bantuan pita video dan segalanya, dan saya boleh menerima kritikan seumpama itu," katanya merujuk kepada rakaman video berhubung komennya mengenai makanannya ketika dalam tahanan.

Sambil menegaskan beliau tidak berapa ingat mengenainya kerana jadualnya yang ketat selepas pembebasannya, Teresa bagaimanapun menuduh pengkritiknya memperbesar-besarkan isu tersebut untuk mencetuskan sensitiviti orang Melayu berhubung haiwan tersebut.

Teresa sebelum ini memberitahu Malaysiakini bahawa beliau bukan sengaja menggunakan istilah 'makanan anjing' untuk menyinggung perasaan orang Melayu.... selanjutnya.

ACA finally interviewed me

teresakok - Last Thursday, a few ACA officers from Putrajaya took my statement in Parliament lounge after the day’s sitting sitting ended over the issue of BN giving away RM200 to Kelantanese voters to go back to cast vote. Please refer to this and this.

I was a bit surprised with these officers as they have not read about this write up in my blog at all until I showed them my blog and all the photos that I have taken on that day. They then wrote the statement from the content of my blog, so save their time and troubles.

In the process, I talked politics with them, meaning I hantam BN lah. I told them the fact that the PM announced ACA will be made an independent body like ICAC in Hong Kong is because of the elections result of March 8. This shows people’s power works in the end. ... selanjutnya.

Paying RM200 to voters is not money politics

teresakok
PEMBERITAHUAN PERTANYAAN DEWAN RAKYATPERTANYAAN LISAN DARIPADA: Y.B. PUAN TERESA KOK SUH SIM

TARIKH : 5 MEI 2008

SOALAN

Puan Teresa Kok Suh Sim [Seputeh] minta PERDAN MENTERI menyatakan apakah Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya dan Badan Pencegah Rasuah telah mengambil tindakan terhadap tindakan BN yang memberi RM200 kepada pengundi Kelantan yang bermastautin di Kuala Lumpur untuk balik membuang undi di Kelantan memandangkan ini merupakan perbuatan politik wang.

JAWAPAN

Badan Pencegah Rasuah (BPR) tidak ada menerima sebarang aduan rasmi berhubung dengan isu yang dibangkitkan oleh Y.B. Seputeh. Berdasarkan maklumat dari sumber-sumber yang lain, BPR telah mengambil tindakan proaktif untuk membuat pemerhatian, pemantauan dan penyiasatan. Namun begitu, BPR tidak memperoleh bukti-bukti yang memenuhi kehendak kesalahan di bawah Akta Pencegahan Rasuah 1997.

Input dari Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya

Untuk makluman Ahli-ahli Yang Berhormat, Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) Malaysia tidak mempunyai maklumat atau mengetahui perkara yang dibangkitkan oleh Y.B. dari Seputeh. Sekiranya Y.B. dari Seputeh mempunyai bukti yang jelas, beliau boleh membuat aduan rasmi kepada pihak-pihak yang bertanggungjawab supaya tindakan yang sewajarnya dapat diambil. Bagi kes-kes rasuah seperti yang didakwakan, SPR tidak mempunyai kuasa untuk mengambil sebarang tindakan.
...selanjutnya [KLIK DI SINI]

20,000 majority for Teresa

Terkini: 8.19 pm

Teresa Kok retains Seputeh, wins Kinrara - 8.03pm

Incumbent MP for Seputeh Teresa Kok has retained her seat with a huge majority of 20,000 votes. She has also won Kinrara, a state seat under Puchong in Selangor.

Ceramah @ Bandar Sri Damansara Utara

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Ceramah on Wednesday night at Bandar Sri Damansara Utara.

With Teresa Kok who was kind enough to drop in and lend her support to R. Sivarasa and I.

Cheap Tactics!

politickler.com

These are some of the responses the Barisan National Seputeh candidate has got for the incumbent Teresa Kok to gain some child votes

Some of the locations where these posters have been erected are at Old Klang Road’s Plaza OUG and at the traffic light near the Taman Desa Medical Center.

These are pure cheap tactics to achieve what exactly? Im a strong believer that its very important to have young blood in the political scene to inject some fresh passion into the equation but how do you explain this? Poor…very poor in my view! Oh well….maybe bright sparks don’t come easy so, cartoon sounds like the next best option eh!

BE A GENTLEWOMAN'S

Kok raps rival over ’sexist’ posters (Malaysiakini)

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Malaysiakini
Ki Mae Heussner | Mar 3, 08 3:44pm

DAP incumbent Teresa Kok has been the target of sexist campaign tactics before but when assailing her MCA challenger for hanging ‘sexist’ posters, the politician today said she expected more from a woman opponent.teresa kok bn slur banner in seputeh

Yesterday, Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate for the Seputeh parliamentary seat, Carol Chew Chee Lin, launched a poster campaign that criticised Kok for contesting both the Seputeh seat and Kinrara state seat.One version features a caricature of Kok, clad in a skimpy red dress and matching stiletto heels, embracing ‘Mr Kinrara’ after dumping ‘Mr Seputeh’. The caption reads: “Once and for all, we will never abandon you, please vote BN.”

Another version features Kok on a rocket, flying from ‘Mr Kinrara’ to ‘Mr Seputeh’.

According to the opposition politician, nearly a dozen billboards with these images have been erected in the Seputeh constituency.

“The implication (of the caricature) is that I am a loose woman. This kind of message is really shocking and has sexist content.

“I didn’t expect a woman to allow this kind of stupid cartoon. I am quite disappointed,” she said when contacted today.

She said other DAP candidates such as secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and Prof P Ramasamy are also contesting for state and parliamentary seats but “these men” were not criticised in a similar manner.

‘Gentlewoman’s fight’

Especially given Chew’s previous position under Wanita MCA head Dr Ng Yen Yen, Kok said she expected the MCA novice to engage in a “gentlewoman’s fight.”

“Ng and her deputy Chew Mei Fun) need to take a stand on this,” she said, adding that MCA always talks about the importance of women candidates and encourages gender sensitivity.

“Ng should have sent her PA (Chew) for gender sensitivity courses before sending her to contest in Seputeh,” she said.

During Kok’s 1999 run for Parliament, sexist comments made by her BN opponent, Sua Chong Keh, incensed voters in the Seputah constituency and ultimately tipped the scales in Kok’s favour.

Compared to previous elections, there are more women candidates in (all) parties,” she said. “It is sad to see the BN candidate launch this campaign,” said Kok.

Despite numerous attempts, Chew (right) could not be reached for comment.

However, China Press today quoted the BN politician as saying that the posters were not sexist and were only meant to illustrate the point that a candidate contesting for two seats would not be able to serve the people well.

Conduct ethical campaigns

In a related development, the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) today expressed its disappointment with the two cartoon-styled billboards in the Seputeh constituency.

JAG said that the billboards depicted Kok in a manner that degraded her as a woman and trivialized her work as an MP.

“The sexualized cartoons of her (in a tight, bright red dress, red high heels and flitting from one “lover” to the next) sets women up as sex objects,” said the group in a statement.

“Sexist comments demean women and when made in relation to their work, violate their right to a safe working environment.

“This incident highlights again the need for mandatory gender sensitisation programmes for all members of political parties and Mps,” it added.

JAG urged all political parties to conduct their election campaigns on a more ethical basis.