The 3 legislators are young, inspiring, refreshing and good looking and smart like Barack Obama. All 3 had the
audacity to fight despite insurmountable odds. But unlike Obama, as opposition candidates, all 3 had to face
tougher obstacles in the country's general election that was far from free and fair.
Like Obama, they are all in the minority (in this case all women). And like Obama, they had no big campaign purses,
so they resorted to the internet to bring in the funding. All 3 are net savvy and have their own blogs, facebook
and party websites.
They rode on the wind of change that was blowing hard against an increasingly unpopular government and were swept
into office promising to bring change to the political culture, tainted with scandals, corruption, arrogance, greed,
and simply bad governance.
Professionals with university degrees, they are articulate, urbane and english speaking. Each won a seat on her
home turf in the affluent Klang Valley - the nation's power house.
BE AWARE, Nurul became MP for Lembah Pantal, beating an incumbent minister and senior ruling party leader;
Yeoh became state assemblywoman for Subag Jaya unseating the stand-in of the incumbent, while
Wong defeated the popular incumbent state assemblywoman for Batu Lanjan.
All 3 enjoyed landslide victory.
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