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'Weird' feeling about Wong's return to campaigning
Almost three years after the scandal over a lawmaker's sacking of a female aide who rebuffed his affections, the two now find themselves living very different lives.
While Democratic Party legislator Kam Nai-wai has decided to retreat from the political scene and will not seek a second term, his ex-aide Kimmie Wong Lai-chu is back in the limelight, helping accounting candidate Nelson Lam Chi-yuen run his Legislative Council election campaign.
Wong, a former ATV journalist, had spurned what Kam called 'good feelings'. Now Wong's new role has aroused mixed feelings in another former boss, lawmaker Mandy Tam Heung-man, who hired the media aide during her unsuccessful bid for re-election to the accounting seat in 2008.
Tam said she found Wong's new move 'weird'.
At a forum in 2008, Tam was accused of electoral bribery - and a recording of the event, used as evidence when a court heard the case last year (it found her not guilty of the offence), was made by none other than Wong's new boss, Nelson Lam. Other candidates for the seat include Kenneth Leung Kai-cheong, Peter Chan Po-fun and Wong Wang-tai. Tanna Chong