jeffooi fighting for a seat in penang

Jeff 4 Malaysia Campaign Fund
As at 10.00hr...
Donations received via Maybank2U now stands at RM2,400.00, while donations received via PayPal now stands at US$350.00 excluding handling fee.As at 10.25hr...
Donations received via Maybank2U now stand at RM3,900.00, while donations received via PayPal now stand at US$360.00 excluding handling fee.
RUNNING AGAINST KOH TSU KOON?
The Star said I will be standing for the Jelutung parliament seat while the vernacular press in Penang say Chief Minister Koh Tsu Koon will also stand in the same constituency.
If both reports are true, I will, again, be the David versus the Goliath.
There are 7 Parliament seats allocated to DAP and four are incumbents, three yet-to-win seats are Jelutung, Bukit Bendera and Batu Kawan -- all retained by Gerakan during GE2004 -- and I have been proposed to run in one of them.
The fact is, there is practically no safe seat for the Opposition in Penang. What more, Bukit Bendera is the 1-Parliament-4-state seat and a star-studded BN stronghold now represented by the deputy Minister of Information, the Penang Chief Minister, the senior State Exco and the deputy Speaker of the State Assembly, plus a one-term state assemblyman.
But the call of national duty is definitely prompting me. I need to do what I wanted to do in JEFF 4 MALAYSIA campaign, and I have made some details here, to explain the mission. The state Election Manifesto, which I helped draft, will be release at the right time. I am certain that talk is cheap and beyond being a blogger, I need a legislator role to speak up for Malaysians!
After weeks of rigorous groundwork, I also find myself very vulnerable facing this General Election. The BN machinery, with $$$ to throw, is immensely formidable.
If you could help me raise some campaign funds, and do it superfast, please email me at jeff001 @ jeffooi.com.
Let me have your mobile number, I will call back and give you the details through my exclusive data line: 6012-2944907.
A Screenshots reader has also helped create a widget for PayPal donations, using my existing PayPal account.
Election Commission allows a maximum expenditure of RM200,000, for Parliament seat. I am targetting at raising half of the amount from donors at large and the other half from internal resources. A little few hundreds from here and there will do the job.
The money will go into running the operations centre and polling machinery, printing and disseminating of election collaterals (including candidates' flyers and pamphlets running by tens of thousands) and feeding the army little troop of volunteers who will take leave, drop all tools, to help me.
To all who donate -- no amount is too small -- I will reciprocate your support each with an autographed copy of my book: i-Witness.
It's a compilation of my articles from 2002 to 2007 about Knowledge-based Economy, and about how to transform Penang's economic model in the context of K-economy. It will be released on Nomination Day, February 24.Please forward this blog entry to your friends and pass the word around. Thanks.