Lim Guan Eng : A CM with no class.

Another PKR rep 'exposes' Penang MB

GEORGE TOWN: Lim Guan Eng’s position as Penang chief minister is becoming increasingly untenable with another Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) member of parliament, and respected grassroots leader from Penang, openly hitting out at the state’s leader.
Nibong Tebal MP Tan Tee Beng, the latest PKR-elected representative to join the fray against Lim, questioned the latter’s ability to lead the state, stressing that he fully supported Bayan Baru MP Datuk Seri Zahrain Mohamed Hashim’s allegations against the chief minister.
Tan claimed that all nine PKR state assemblymen in Penang also shared similar views about the DAP secretary-general.
He also spilled the beans on how Lim’s dictatorial ways and vengeful politics were not only causing problems in PKR but had also split the Chinese community
in Penang.
"He politicises everything. I openly said that he is a CM with no class.
"Whatever he cannot do, he blames it on the previous state government.
"Enough of bluffing, he wants to portray himself as a Chinese hero, but one day people will see his true colours," Tan said, adding that the state government had failed to deliver any of its 2008 general election promises.
Tan is one of four PKR MPs in Penang. The others are Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (Permatang Pauh), Zahrain (Bayan Baru) and Mohd Yusmadi Mohd Yusoff (Balik Pulau).
PKR has nine state seats, DAP 19, Pas one and Barisan Nasional 11.
Tan said he wanted to come clean and expose "the real Lim Guan Eng" so the people in Penang would not continue to be fooled by the "outsider from Malacca".
He said other PKR and DAP assemblymen were afraid to expose Lim, although they shared his and Zahrain's views.
"The people around the chief minister are all yes-men. All the PKR assemblymen are feeding me information about Lim and how he is running the state."
Tan said Lim had so far not even dared to answer any of Zahrain's damning allegations but instead chose to hide behind Deputy Chief Minister I Mansor Othman.
He added that PKR should question whether Lim actually shared the aspirations of others in Pakatan.
"The way Lim is doing things, I think he is only bothered to hold on to Penang.
"I don't believe he shares the same goals as we do," he said, citing how Lim and three other DAP state executive councillors who are also MPs: Deputy Chief Minister II Dr P. Ramasamy (Batu Kawan), Chow Kon Yeow (Tanjung) and Ooi Chuan Aun (Jelutong), had missed the last session of Parliament last year when the 2010 Budget was put to vote.
He said their absence had caused Pakatan to miss a golden opportunity to outnumber Barisan Nasional by just three votes.
"It shows they are not interested (in taking Putrajaya. They just want to hold on to Penang."
Tan also blasted Lim for the manner PKR MPs in Penang were being treated compared with how PKR-led Selangor was being run.
He said in Selangor, all MPs were given RM150,000 by the state government for their constituencies.
However, he said in Penang, none of the PKR MPs received "a single penny" from the state government compared with DAP MPs who were treated differently.
"In Penang, we (from the PKR) are being treated like the opposition. Sadly, we are facing this kind of dictator in the state government.
"He is not helping us at all, and most of the time we don't even know about the programmes or projects that are being planned in our constituency," he said.
Citing the International Dragon Boat championship held at the Teluk Bahang Dam, Tan said the PKR MP for the area, Yusmadi, was not even invited to attend.
Similar disclosures were also made by Zahrain, who revealed that he knew nothing of the Penang International Convention Centre project that had been planned by Lim in Bayan Baru.
Tan said he, too, was not spared as he was not appointed the state water supply board director even though he was nominated by the PKR leadership.
Asked whether he realised that speaking up against Lim could lead to action being taken against him, Tan said the party leadership was free to do as it pleased.
"They can call me a traitor, a BN agent, a CIA agent or anything else. I don't care. I want the people to know who they have voted in to lead Penang."
Tan said people may question why he was coming out to hit out at Lim instead of going through the proper channels.
However, he said the party had failed to do anything about many things, including taking action against several leaders who had tarnished PKR's image.
"When we speak up and tell the truth, they label us as troublemakers," he said.
On whether he was planning to quit PKR to become an independent MP, Tan said he had no such plans yet.

tunku: wow....that's juicy news especially when it came from TAN TEE BENG. people had been fooled by the father and son from dap.when zahrain said about guan eng,lots of people did'nt bother much but when it comes out from the mouth of tee beng,then it is something.tee beng said it right,lim guan eng has failed as a cm.he has done nothing in penang but blaming everything on the previous government.he has no vision for penang.it is not too late penangites, change while you can in the next GE.