Good to see Kempy's statement made no reference to MPs that may have been behind hewhostandsfornothing.
When will Kempy and Sheezel come down on Rivers like a tonne of bricks for leaking about me to The Age and the Herald Sun - you are a dirty dog, Rivers.
Does this development derail the GTM Express?
Sheezel didn't mention the non-disclosure agreement. He's a spineless fiscal conservative with the truth. Will thus make a first class Member for Higgins
Which greenhorn journo vain enough to think this an 'exclusive' has fallen for this Cheezel-protecting exercise? For argument's sake, let's suppose it's an unsuccessful Kennetista with another spoon-fed, third-hand coup, that's too lazy to read the writing on the wall.
Ted deserves what he got - so many of us are disenchanted with his leadership. In years to come what Simon and John did will be seen as the right thing to do.
What can I say about this? Well, I'm not sure yet, there's a lot of feeling in the community on this issue and can I say...the Government has not done enough on this issue. We will do better, we will fix this issue, even though we don't have a policy on it. Clearly this is a dirty tricks campaign orchestrated by a tired Labor Government.
Yet another notch on my gun. Because talented campaigners at 104 really are a dime a dozen.
On an entirely related matter, mater, are you keeping the red leather warm?
[We gladly put you at the helm of our little fleet] but our ships must sail in the same direction. Otherwise, who can say how long your stay with us will last? It's not personal, it's just business. You should know, boys.
You're next Barry
Why can't we be friends?
Good to see we're all working Saturdays. AWAs can be handy for that kind of thing.
They are patriots. Why not use this as impetus to sack Ted instead?
Or have the idiots in the Kennett faction not figured out that's the whole point of this story yet....replete with two sacrificial lambs?
Red Ted really must go. The Liberal Party is useless with him at the helm. These staffers should be commended for their loyalty to the party in doing everything that they could to help the party regain office.
We are the Kroger. We will assimilate.
And now, thanks to Ted's insistence that Julian shaft both those responsible and those not- we come with added laughter at his incompetence. Cheesy's twenty pieces of silver will be now cross-factional backing for the rotten borough of Higgins.
Ted's failure to see the forest from the trees means he now creates a story out of what would otherwise be nothing, and perhaps hastens his deserved demise. Well done mate. They gave you the rope, and you're proceeding to hang yourself with it. Ever consider the possibility that maybe the finger might need to be pointed a little higher up?
Oh dear, I hope this story does not break in the Sunday Herald Sun. I think I cease to be a Brahmin if I touch anything that backward or base.
Soames, why do the plebs not read The Age? Why do they not see the wit and brilliance of that Jaspan chap?
Soames, this contraption cut off my full title.
How impertinent.
Fetch me McPerton. He understands the injustice of unrecognised brilliance.
Liberal party sacks/encourages departure of staffers who STAND FOR SOMETHING.
Irony not lost on those who remain in the service of the Liberal Party. Great message to give to the electorate.
Cost of outgoing state director blaming anyone even remotely involved? Two jobs.
Making Baillieu and the party look even more amateurish because failed staffers like Tony Barry decide to play toy soldiers? Priceless.
For everything else, there's the Labor Party.
The real irony is that this situ shows that Tony Barry has more power to influence evens in the Liberal Party than the Leader of the Opposition does.
We thought we were scraping the bottom of the barrel before. Well, the barrel just got a whole lot deeper...
Imagine if it was an offence in the ALP to comment on internal foes by way of blog?
Uh-oh, spaghettioes...
Strange, then, that you can get away with it there, but not in the party that's supposed to champion individual liberty. Especially given there's a question mark over who did or didn't do what.
All I had to do to get this story out the right way was balance a dog biscuit on the journo's nose. Didn't even have to take him to his club for an armagnac.
More's the pity. Alcohol is nice.
All the way with JA.
Sheezel ran a rotten shop, and now the chickens are coming home to roost...
Messrs Morgan and Osborn,
This is an outrage! This is a clear violation of your Human Rights!
This is a clear breach of the Right to a Fair Trial enshrined in the Charter of Rights which I myself sponsored through parliament.
You will need a highly respected, highly regarded and highly paid barrister to defend your rights. Someone who is a Human Rights champion - perhaps even someone who created the world's first Human Rights website.
Give me a call....
Sheezel has all the qualities of a garden gnome except humour...
If these two boofheads were such bright sparks in the "campaign unit" how come the Vic Libs have not won an election in Vic for over 12 years? Sounds like a dud campaign unit to me. Sheezel should be sacked too after all who was supervising the two quislings? Were they involved in the decision not to stand candidates in the 2007 by-election? Could this be the end of the Costello/Kroger faction? Should Helen Kroger withdraw as a Senate candidate as she was Vic Div Pres until recently or was the blog a later effort after she finished as President. Speaking honestly I like Ted Baillieu but though his media was a bit woody at the start but I think he is firing on 12 cylinders now. If people have got comments or critisims they should be open about like me and not hide behind anon blogs and anon tip off - pathetic stuff. Regards, Liberal member 1994-2003.
OH NO!
another 4 years of Labor in government await.
You are right 'Collins Street' of course Sheezel ran a rotten shop, and he wants to take it to Higgins! Wake up Higgins Liberals - if you want to annihilate the Liberal Party just continue to support the known present contenders for Higgins when it comes up.
The Morgan/Osborn/Kroger/Costel0/Kemp/ supporters are the same ones who supported the last real loser - Robert Doyle. This cabal have a great record
at putting up and supporting big losers.
Wake up Victorian Liberals - get rid of a few more like Morgan and Osborn and support your new Director
and the Parliamentary Leader in Victoria if you ever want to see another state Liberal Government.
I had not heard of this anti Ted blog and having just read it. I wonder why they bothered writing it - boring !!Was anyone reading it or was it just set up to deliberately get exposed to undermine Ted? Were the two sacked quisling going to leave in any case and get a merchant banking job in the UK or USA? Andrew your blog is much more interesting.
This issue has now been reported on the evening TV news and I just rang two Liberal friends who had heard all about it too. I have the Sunday Age home delivered so it should be interesting.
PS: Liberal membership fees are due in March and the two sacked employees should be entitle to a refund assuming there party membership could be affected as well - I know all about that. Sheezel did not give me a refund - the filthy grub - when I was suspended for 12 months on 13 Jun 03 for opposing the Iraq war and the oppression of the Palestinians.
Incidentally it appears every second Israeli MP is in gaol, going to gaol or should be in gaol - check out the AJN online. Perhaps the sacked one could get a job with the AJN blog site.
FUCK YOU ROBERT DEAN!
You did this to our party
I did not inhale. I did not have sex with that women. I went to the strip show but didn't look. Oh shit what more do you want from me? You mean lose my Senate preselection :-(
I catagorically reject any knowledge of this matter. I am a great Senator and I know nothing. Nothing I tell you. Besides Cossie made me do it. Its all his fault. For crying out loud, he is leaving the ship with all us rats still left behind. What will we do when the rank and file turn on us (and I do mean rank....)?
Fuck you Ronno and Mifield. I haven't even had my turn yet. It was my idea to set up this stupid thing in the first place. You both know how devious and cunning I am. Now I will just be thought of as a dumb and stupid factional tart who only got to be President and then elected to the Senate by corruption. I hate you both. Now it will all come out and it will be our necks. What the hell will I do now? I haven't got any qaulifications. My name is mud. I was so hoping to push being a Senator into my ex's face. Now it is all gone...Are you satisfied?
Unlike the Lib State Council comments (hundreds of them) to Andrew earlier blog a few weeks ago the Young Libs, Lib MP staffers and others are very quiet tonight. I wonder why?
Ronno, Mifield and Madden.
Just leave me out of this bloody mess. I am smart and cocky. I have a real smirk like my hero's. I will go a long way sucking off the public purse. Pox on all of you. May you rot in hell you scum bags. Please RANK and file don't take my pre-selection away from me. I promise to leave the carcus of the Costello/Kroger faction and never return. I am loyal and honest. Really.
Hey Adrian you are right.
Where is Elsbury and Tobin? I guess they could be the next cabs of the rank to get the bullit?
BTW if there are some MP's implicated in this will they lose their seats or Senate positions?
I hope Mr Nutt comes in swinging a big axe on these pricks (except for me of course).
Morgan and Osborn have done the right thing - to publicly embarass and humiliate the leader of the opposition is to uphold the Menzies Legacy.
They deserve to be rewarded with a column in The Age to explain their noble political philosophy and speak on behalf of all true liberals.
You'll recall you were suspended on Friday & resigned almost immediately after, Adrian. Nobody who resigns gets their money back. You are a complete tool.
Evil Bastard: I was suspended so could not participate in the party for 12 months so why shouldn't I get my money back from that grub Sheezel. Anyhow what goes around comes around and in this instance big time for your little friend Julie Sheezel - Ha Ha
Also Evil Bastard, I can rejoin the party if I want to (fat change however) but the complete tools responsible for the anti Ted blog (not just the 2 fall guys) are finished in the party and probably in many business circles. Who would trust someone who uses company resources and probably company time to undermine the boss. Further they were so dumb they also got caught - I bet they went to Uni to learn that.
AJ, I suppose you could rejoin the Party, but your membership would be suspended, given that you resigned the day after it was suspended. By the way, I thought it was suspended for only 9 months.
Anon it was 12 months but you could be correct on the other matter but after 12 months I would have membership fully restored. Anyhow 9 years of it was enough for me. I have never met so many wankers and drop kicks like Kabos, Foskett, Purvis (now deceased Bo Ho Ho), Kraine, and Shardey to name a few. particularly in Melbourne Ports FEC, except for about 12 OK people out of 500 mainly non effective members in that FEC. No wonder they never beat that creep Danby. Also wasn't Sheezel campaign manager for a Monash Province campaign that the Libs lost (when Peter Katsambanis lost his seat) but he still was made Director of the Vic Div. Peter Principle ??
Adrian Jackson,
Could you tell us why you were fired from the Metro News?
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I wasn't fired. The paper got smaller (40 to 28 pages)and my column started getting reduced after Jack the owner died (I was not payed so I can't be fired incidentally). Jack (the owner) rang me to invite me to write a column about a year before he died (I never met him face to face eithor) and when he died his children took it over. I got bored and left and I was not fired as you put it. ADC or someone like them peddled that myth I think.
PS: the name change to Metro News was my suggestion as its distribution was wider that Toorak. I hardly see it round now and it's pretty tame too but they seem to be getting plenty of advertising.
The ironic thing is that John Osborn, who has so vehemently attacked welfare in the past, will probably be finding his way to the the nearest centrelink office in the near future. He certainly will not get employment with anyone in the party again, and he doesn't exactly have the best resume for any good job in the private sector. I would really hate to be in his shoes right now.
Why doesn't he exactly have the best resume at the moment?
Fitch 3.05am: see my similar comment at 1.37am (really 12.37am as Andrews clock is 1 hour out) but what will Sheezel do without his Merchant Bank mates? If Kroger employs him it is condination of the "crime" and if he does not and the money does not come in his wife may divorce him. She may do it anyway if she is a honest Liberal (don't know anything about her).
I still don't get what all the talk of merchant bank mates or whatever has to do with this story. Man, some of you are silly.
Anon: Michael Kroger of the Kroger faction is a merchant banker and so is the Vic Div Kroger faction Treasurer Julian Glynn.
A "condination". WTF?
Condination is a term in the Army for example: leaving someone in a job as barman after he is caught stealing from the till. Condoning the offence is another way of putting it.
OMG I just saw Simon Morgon's pic (accidentally). Cmon politics is about looks these days, and people who look like that guy will guarantee you stay out of office indefinitely. I always thought 'young' politics hacks were sad virgins/sexual deviants, and this dude just confirmed it. The comments in here suggest you all take it too seriously - it's funny and sad at the same time.
Signed: A small l liberal who wouldn't go near a political party with a bargepole because it might get caught in some pompous fatso's giant arsehole (I'm talking Libs here).
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