Campaign Notes - Day 6

It’s been a week since OKM found out that he would be DAP’s candidate for the parliament seat of Serdang. Not sure about most people but I usually spend a lot more time planning for a 3 day vacation than the time we had leading up to Nominations and the Campaign. Today is Day 6 and I give kudos to everyone in #teamOKM (mostly novices) for our combined efforts to do everything required to MAKE a campaign happen i.e. strategize, prepare publicity material, sort out logistics, raise funds, craft speeches, work with and create good will with not just one but three adun teams : Balakong, Seri Kembangan, Bangi) (in addition to the actual work of Campaigning). It’s been an immensely steep learning curve - we have had to leave the PJ mode behind and step into the Serdang way of things, think and speak in BM and Mandarin. We are super grateful to the Dun teams of course, that they have been so kind to share their space and plans with us. We are also thankful for a 2 week campaign period because we really needed this week to shift into gear. Heard that for 2008 the campaign period was only a week! We really need to ramp it up next week so please continue to pray for us.

Some Serdang Stats for you: Over 130000 voters up 40k from 2008 – through Teo Nie Ching’s voter registration efforts and self- registered young voters in the Bangi area. Seri Kembangan and Balakong make up the 48% Chinese majority who are supposed to be strongly loyal to Yap Pian Hon, the 70 year old BN candidate. He is said to have been working the ground in the last 5 years in preparation for this election. All in all, P102 promises to be an interesting fight.