Comments on: THEANA TRIUMPH: Victorian Liberal MP comfortably defeats preselection challenge

By: Teddy bear

Teddy bear — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:24:50 +0000

lots of people nominating for the liberal upper house slots according to reports from Admin Committee members. Will be interesting to see which sitting members get knocked out. Most should.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:07:55 +0000

but not exactly the kind of sweeping victory the teddites expected. bet they are regretting insisting on the old system now. well may sir daryl say f*ck

By: Libs united

Libs united — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:52:51 +0000

52 Lib delegates are based on old system of 2 delegatres per branch – not a plebescite as applies to non encumbent Lib seats. Sandringham’s membership is strong .

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:56:22 +0000

“You sayin there is only 52 Liberal members in a prized seat?

My god – it needs to be stacked !!!”

Incorrect anonymous and Giddy Up. There are a couple of hundred members in the seat. The reason for the low number of voters at this pre-selection is because it was under the old delegate system of 2/4 members per branch. This applied to any challenge against sitting members that occurred at this election. Had Murray retired or if he is challenged in four years time the new system will apply. The reason for the anomaly here was because it was part of the compromise agreement to obtain Ted’s support for the reforms. I.E I will support your reforms if I can protect my sitting members. It obviously worked as there was only one challenge against any sitting member and that produced a sweeping victory to the incumbent.

By: Natasha the Despoiler

Natasha the Despoiler — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:55:35 +0000

It is precisely this sort of result from the conservative party that will consign them to perpetual irrelevance and opposition.

Madge Fitz should come to the Democrats – seriously honey… couldn’t get much worse than where you are right now!

By: Evil Bastard

Evil Bastard — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:56:36 +0000

why would the sandringham crew vote for someone who is brighton electorate chair, who has zero interest in the local people & the local issues, & who only skipped over the border to sandringham because louise is staying put in brighton? there was never any mileage in running an ‘anyone but murray’ challenger in this race

By: Chloe

Chloe — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:33:45 +0000

There are more than 52 members in a prized Liberal seat Anonymous. Preselection was run on old rules as a sitting member was challenged.It was not a plebiscite as in new rules for retirements or vacancies. Obviously, branch delegates stood firm for Murray plus a goodly number of outsiders.

By: Inga

Inga — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:29:47 +0000

A delicious victory for Murray. Not so tasty for slim little old me.

By: Dirk Diggler

Dirk Diggler — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:29:09 +0000

Years of doing nothing are rewarded.

By: Krogeryte

Krogeryte — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:01:33 +0000

Fitzy was completely smashed right out of the ball park. Hard to recover from such a dismal performance. Krogerites are looking for a clean sweep it seems. Their hardest task will be defeating lou lou in Wannon – that will be very difficult.

By: Giddy Up

Giddy Up — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:02:42 +0000

Wow only 52 members!!!! Murray I’ll move in to ‘help’ you with the next preselection.

By: liberal renewal

liberal renewal — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:16:08 +0000

Good to see the libs clearing out the dead wood. Long live murray!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:12:33 +0000

You sayin there is only 52 Liberal members in a prized seat?

My god – it needs to be stacked !!!

By: Sir Daryl

Sir Daryl — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:53:26 +0000

F*ck.

By: Evil Bastard

Evil Bastard — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:47:52 +0000

it is astounding that the challenger couldn’t count

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:47:24 +0000

No wonder Murray wants to spend another 4 years in Parliament.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:35:11 +0000

Christ I am concerned about those 7.
Theana is more scary than a 125kg pissed Hell’s Angel Gorilla.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:24:46 +0000

the party is clearly fucked