“I think that the offer for a position on a statutory board to SKudai assemblyperson Marina Ibrahim was made with good intentions by Johor DAP chief Teo Nie Ching.

This is a way to ensure that someone like Marina continues to serve the people of Johor and Malaysia in a different capacity.”

- former Bangi MP Ong Kian Ming

COMMENT | The quote that opens this piece is further evidence of how fetid the swamp is.

Forget the hypocrisy of the statement, but the causal manner in which it is delivered is demonstrative of how self-serving politicians are and, of course, how subservient they think their base should be.

Rational Malaysians have to ask, what is in it for us? All politics are local and a trade-off. So, a politician gets his or her fat cat governmental job and the rakyat are supposed to get something in return.

For the non-Malays in this country...