You say that:
“Lets not go back to the Pre-Reform days that branded Liberal Party in Victoria as a club for the Costello boys (and Helen Kroger). Lets elect Liberal’s to our Parliament who understand people as a result of their long and real life experiences. Lets not have any more young chameleons professing to be something they simply are not.”

In that case, the only genuinely non-aligned person is Kenny.

mcgauarn & cate are both very much factionally aligned.

I have just received a copy of Ross Fox’s application for the Senate pre-selection for this Friday night’s extravaganza and have forensically analysed the information he has provided.

Boy has this guy gilded the lily or what?

He has more front the Myers!

For any budding delegates at this Friday night’s convention here are some curly questions and background information you might want to throw at the ‘star’ candidate Mr Fox.

I have also included other question marks over Mr Fox’s run for Parliament for your information.

But first the ‘raw’ application data -

FOX HISTORY AFTER GRADUATING FROM ENGINEERING IN 1998 (11 YEARS AGO)

Age 22 – Business Analyst, McKinsey & Co. Why did he leave?
26 months – a real paid job!

Age 24 – Helping out in WA aboriginal community on a contact. Why do this?
4 months – a real paid job!

Age 24 – Improvement Consultant, Pasminco Smelter
6 months – a real paid job!

Age 25 – Adviser to Federal Member for Macarthur in NSW.
4 months – a political staffer!

Age 26 – (Senior) Policy Adviser to the NSW opposition leader. Senior?
12 months – a political staffer!

Age 26 Business Improvement Manager, Emoleum Road Services.
6 months – a real paid job!

Age 26 – Fox paid for a place to attend an Oxford Bachelor of Arts Degree
24 months – no job

Age 28 – Research Fellow (part time), IPA
7 months – not a real job. A small token salary!

Age 29 – Chief of Staff (read office manager) for Ronno. Boy was this a setup!
6 months (Fox was preselected for Isaacs in July 2007 while the office manager) – a political staffer!

Age 30 – Liberal Candidate for the Federal Electorate of Isaacs
16 Months – no job

Age 31 – Research Fellow (part time), IPA
15 months – not a real job. A small token salary!

Age 32 – Director of Public Affairs, Association of Independent Schools of Victoria
9 months – a real paid job!

So now we have a better picture of the last 10 years….

Real paid jobs = 3 years and 9months
Political staffer positions = 1 year and 10 months
Part time IPA researcher = 1 year and 10 months
Liberal Candidate = 1 year and 4 months
Student = 2 years

QUESTION FOR MR FOX

Ross in your application under the heading ‘Employment History’ you talk about being ‘Chief of Staff’ for the Office of Michael Ronaldson for 6 months. Really? This does sound impressive but we all know that Ronno was a backbencher at that time. Surely you mean ‘Office Manager’.

Ross you talk about your ‘business acumen and extensive business contacts’ gained through your fractured and mediocre work history. Please explain how you obtained this business acumen and these business contacts?

Ross you talk about your fantastic campaign in Isaacs where you spent over $200,000 of Liberal Party funds. Why then did you have a massive 6.21% swing against you?
Other key Labor held seats in the 2007 Federal Campaign did not have such a large swing against them when they only had a fraction of the Liberal Party funds allocated to them that you had.

In your pre-selection speech to win the endorsement for Isaacs you barked out loud that you would ‘challenge Mark Dreyfus (the Labor candidate) to debate you every day of the campaign’. How many times did you challenge Mr Dreyfus to debate you in the Isaacs campaign?

Ross why did you lie to many Liberals in the Isaac’s electorate about your ‘independence’ when after you were endorsed it was found you were just another Costello sycophant being supported by Mitch Fifield for numbers in the Party room?

After your speech to win the Isaacs campaign you were seen violently vomiting in the toilets. Do you really have the mettle to be a Senator?

It is noticed in your application that there is no mention of winning the next State election. Is this because you still retain strong allegiances with Costello and will in no way help Ted Baillieu win the next State election?

Throughout your application you seem to be hanging a lot on your (only) 9 months working as a Director for the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria. There appears to be several other ‘Directors’ at the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria. Are you sure that this ‘trumping up’ of this short period with the organisations reflects the true picture of your involvement? Or is this just another ‘Chief of Staff’ puff….? After all you have included what you have done in this role in the last 9 months as one of your (two) major career achievements!

Ross you have included your second major career achievement as being the candidate in your failed Isaacs campaign. Your statistics (train station visits / media coverage etc) are not remarkable and compare with many other Liberal endorsed candidates who had a lot less Liberal Party funds to spend on their campaigns.

You talk about the ‘2nd BA’ at your paid Oxford Course that it will be converted to a Master of Arts in a few months time. Now Ross you know that with an Oxford degree this happens automatically after 7 years not in a few months time. Don’t imply you are ‘an exceptional student’. Just tell it like it is.

Ross you were trying to destabilise the then Leader of the Federal Opposition, Dr Nelson last year, with your Internet antics that professed Peter Costello should come back to lead the Federal Liberals. How do we know you wont get up to this mischief against Malcolm Turnbull? You are simply not to be trusted.

It can be seen in your Accompanying Statement that you are playing for the Country vote that is being partially vacated by Judith Troeth. Its great that when you were young, having a hobby of rearing a few calves, but can I be bold enough to say that this is your full extent of Country sympathy. Lets not pretend. You are a city dude who wouldn’t in a (pink) fit head off to live in the Country. Nice try though. People see right through your opportunism to cash in on this Country sentiment.

Now Mr Fox. You are a single 32-year-old male with lots of confidence (and bluff) but with limited life experiences. You have a propensity to lie to get your own way and have been caught gilding the lily to try and get into Parliament by ‘whatever it takes’. What do you really know about working families and what it is like to bring up children, have a mortgage and all the things important to most people in the community? It is great to be a young ‘Turk’ wanting fame and notoriety by being a Member of Parliament, and I am sure your current salary of $70,000 going to $140,000 plus perks as a Senator would also be a buzz for you. But look we already have a couple of young Turks representing Victoria in Scott Ryan and Mitch Fifield. Do we really need another one?

Lets not go back to the Pre-Reform days that branded Liberal Party in Victoria as a club for the Costello boys (and Helen Kroger). Lets elect Liberal’s to our Parliament who understand people as a result of their long and real life experiences. Lets not have any more young chameleons professing to be something they simply are not.

My luncheon companions in San Fran lack his charm, wit and Black CLK.

That said, if honeys want my advice as to which candidate most embodies left liberal values, it would have to be Foxy Ross.

Any former employee of Broggers can’t be that committed to archaic, conservative values.

I love the Forbes position. I have experienced many Forbes positions.

Like I said. Do a google search. He lied about where he lived did he? Wow, what a crime. Pollies never live away from where they are supposed to be…noooo. Gimme a break. Go spread you desperate sounding arguments & hype on a website about growing mushrooms.

Maybe Julian, the do-nothing senator deserves to get up again, so he can persecute more people and breach their privacy…

The days of blind robotic believers are behind us. The time of the true believers has arrived.

Poxy Ross is light on with the truth, like his qualifications, his work history, where he lives etc. To say he ’sexed up’ his bio is a significant understatement.
Any take him away from Fifield’s apron strings and he is useless and ineffective.

Posted by Poxy Candidate | March 3, 2009, 21:20

Apron strings or jock straps????