Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek - From hero to zero?

Hi friends! The past few days there were no post coming from me because my terrace house was being prettied up a little and the computer had to be unwired and moved to another place temporarily. Sorry, pals, if you had dropped by! Please do not let this make you avoid my site, okay? Thanks!

Anyway, locally, bloggers were busy commenting about the death of Teoh Beng Hock and the PKFZ scandal as well as the Permatang Pasir election, where the BN candidate lost to the PAS man, Mohd Salleh. The lost was not surprising as BN, unknowingly or intentionally, placed a tainted man in the bi-election. Their man, Rohaizat Othman has already been discredited by the Bar Council of Malaysia, involving in the misappropriation of a client’s money. ‘Unknowingly’, perhaps its candidate did not tell the truth when chosen for the candidacy. ‘Intentionally’, because the by-election for Permatang Pasir sate seat was a dead and gone conclusion that PAS would surely win it, as the place was one of its strongholds. BN could then blame the loss on their choice of the candidate rather than the people’s dissatisfaction at the state of its affairs.

The latest hot news is the sacking of the deputy president of the Chinese party, MCA –Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek – by the disciplinary board of MCA. This is interesting news because in 2007 Soi Lek was involved in a sex video scandal and had admitted to his wayward extremities. He was almost hailed as a hero for owning up to the trespasses and was urged to continue on with his duties! He resigned from his position as the vice president and subsequently his Health Ministership in the government to show his ‘honor and sincerity. And..lo! He was praised left and right by his party officials and members. They did not let up. The party invited him back into the fold a few months back, in its aspiration of strengthening the party. He stood for the number 2 post in the party election of last October and won!

Now he has been sacked! It was in the “long term interest” of the party, a member of the disciplinary board said. “People will continue to make fun of what he had done and question the integrity of the party. So, we had to expel him," he said.

Dr Chua Soi Lek’s dirt of the sex scandal has stuck harder than before. No wonder they say politics is dirty! How more dirty can it get?