Comments on: LEFTIES AT WAR: Carlo’s departure sets the stage for an epic battle

By: anon

anon — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:40:26 +0000

Madagain’s letter to Essendon members was an absolute disgrace, all about her achievements as Speaker, like re-writing the standing orders for god’s sake!
Nothing about any achievements for her electorate of Essendon. Shows that even she can’t identify anything she has achieved for her electorate worth commenting on!
Essendon needs a LOCAL Labor candidate with the drive to deliver for the local community.
Madagain’s shadow of the past 12 months, Natalie Sykes-Hutchins doesn’t qualify on either count!

By: Milad Patrol

Milad Patrol — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:11:17 +0000

Just spreading the word that Milad El-Halabi is running a coburg branch stacking operation about the size of the hoover dam project.

someone shed some light in public on this guy please. The system is not supposed to be spat on by one little man with too much $.

By: Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:46:31 +0000

I wil loose weight and win

By: Conrad for Premier

Conrad for Premier — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:41:53 +0000

I nominate Conrad to replace Maddigan, Victoria needs this hard working young man in parliament.

By: judy maddigan also not running

judy maddigan also not running — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:28:12 +0000

branch members got a letter from judy letting them know she’s not renominating.

Mark Kennedy anyone?

By: Giuseppe De Simone

Giuseppe De Simone — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:42:21 +0000

I will so miss Carlo. He may have been a trotskyite fellow traveller on the high road to oblivion. But he was a very personable one. Quite conceivably he did genuinely mellow his views on some issues to quasi-patriotic and not quite as vitriolic. However, he was still a lefty and we ought never forget that.

By: marx

marx — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:41:17 +0000

not having a license is a plus in the people’s republic

By: sooty

sooty — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:33:51 +0000

eek .. ‘labor’.

By: sooty

sooty — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:32:34 +0000

hahah .. that is humorous anon 21.56, but holy shitter … doesn’t that sound more like Greg Barber than what a labour candidate (or mayor) should be? In any case … a supreme lack of political nouse in doing the stunt, without thinking through the lack of licence as a bit of an undoer .. oops.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:16:48 +0000

with a hair cut nothing can stop tabo

By: Joe Cuputo

Joe Cuputo — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:13:45 +0000

what about me I have done some great things in di era

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:06:27 +0000

hutch hussein to replace carlo

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:56:42 +0000

I think you’ll find mayor tapinos opted not to renew his licence as he felt it was not something necessary given the proximity of his home to work, and the decent public transport infrastructure that exists across Brunswick.

By: Take Brunswick back.

Take Brunswick back. — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:02:02 +0000

“Lambros MP would be an insult to the Labor heartland and then we wonder why seats fall to the Greens…” – 14:06

Learn your shit. Lambros rescued Moreland from a Left/Green dominance, pulling a stratospheric primary, decimating Alyce, and Carlo’s mate, in one swoop.

You can’t win Brunswick by veering left, complying with a Greens agenda, and alienating the conservative Catholic/Orthodox vote found within the area’s vibrant Italian and Greek communities.

By: sooty

sooty — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:01:01 +0000

Hilariously, the real reason Lambros gave up the mayoral car was actually due to a lack of a driver’s licence, as was revealed in the local rag the week following that particular stunt.

By: No Lambros, No Conrad, No Locke, No 23 year olds, No tosspots for Brunswick

No Lambros, No Conrad, No Locke, No 23 year olds, No tosspots for Brunswick — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:52:41 +0000

Here’s a novel idea how about pre-selecting someone who is not a fucknuckle, does not suffer from chronic bovine lethargy or isn’t in the pockets of property developers who plan to destroy the landscape of the People’s Republic of Brunswick?

In response to Concerned Moreland Resident the haughty councillor has East Timor as one of her portfolio responsibilities as this is how the tosspot corridors of power in local government work.
Depending on the bent of the councillors they all have these little vanity projects. For example an interest in East Timor means she is a bleeding heart beret wearer. Those advocating sister city relations in Macedonia/Lebanon/Greece/Cambodia translates to ethnic branch stacker planning to visit the mother country on the ratepayer purse. You wouldn’t have really thought foreign affairs would come under the jurisdiction of local government, which should be dealing with meals on wheels and garbage collection, because let’s face it there are not a lot of Mandarin speaking diplomats in their ranks (no mandarins, lots of vegetables though).

By: Conrad

Conrad — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:31:53 +0000

Agree. 14.06. That is why I will run for Brunswick. I have done my long apprenticeship playing solitaire in a state mp’s office, a federal mp’s office, and now a union. I am ready. I am pumped. I can do it.

By: You Cannot Be Serious

You Cannot Be Serious — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:06:36 +0000

Lambros Tapinos has all the intellect, charisma and talent of his mayoral counterpart at Darebin. His possible candidacy is laughable (what has he achieved other than sustaining life as a party hack -if one deems this an accomplishment?). Lambros MP would be an insult to the Labor heartland and then we wonder why seats fall to the Greens…

By: Carlo Carli MP

Carlo Carli MP — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:59:04 +0000

Actually, Eric Dearricott has my endorsement.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:33:11 +0000

the only person who can plausibly run and beat the greens is tapinos

By: Carlo Carli MP

Carlo Carli MP — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:15:58 +0000

Lambros has my endorsement.

By: Concerened Moreland Resident

Concerened Moreland Resident — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:47:56 +0000

Moreland Councillors running for council. They should do the jobs they were elected to first. If they can’t do local government properly god help us when they are in state parliament. How many phone calls does it take, when are you clowns going to organise someone to fix the foot path outside my house.

And on another note why the hell does Alice Pryor have portfolio responsibilities for East Timor! What the fuck does that have to do with local government, absolutely Fuck All!!!!!!

By: Concerned Moreland Resident

Concerned Moreland Resident — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:44:54 +0000

And on another note why the hell does Alice Pryor have portfolio responsibilities for East Timor! What the fuck does that have to do with local government, absolutely Fuck All!!!!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:13:59 +0000

I think the ideal Left candidate for the Soviet Republic of Brunswick is Paula Rizzuto. Paula has a record second to none as an upholder of the Stalinist tradition. For one thing she once said on her blog that she ate her husband, Stephen Ho.

Paula would make even better copy for Vexnews than the infamous Eric Locke.