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SHAMELESS: Stephen Mayne covets Liberal preselection for Menzies despite boasting about electing Labor
Former Liberal staffer turncoat Stephen Mayne is reported to be interested in Liberal party preselection for the federal seat of Menzies, according to outraged party insiders. It’s widely anticipated that former minister Kevin Andrews won’t be contesting the federal election after next, notionally scheduled for 2013.
“Ten years on, after he tried to destroy a reforming Liberal government, he is now trying to slime his way back in. It’s outrageous!” one patriot operating in the Menzies region explained to VEXNEWS on the weekend.
“Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it, if they’ll rat on you once, they’ll rat on you twice. It’s hard to believe people would be so stupid to embrace Mayne,” he asserted.
MAYNE WANTS IN
In 1999, Mayne despite previously working as a spin-doctor for the Kennett government, made a series of largely unsubstantiated ethics-related complaints about the Liberal administration and left his then job as a gossip columnist to run against Premier Kennett in the state seat of Burwood. He botched the nomination process and wasn’t able to contest the election but continued with his vicious online attacks against Kennett, that evolved into the left-wing cash for content email newsletter later sold to millionaire South Yarra lefty Eric Beecher.
Mayne has been keen to previously assert that his attacks played a crucial part in unseating Kennett. The electoral record shows that his and the other left-wing city media had little effect, the Libs lost in 1999 because of a huge and mostly unexpected swing against them in country Victoria. Their poor management of city versus country politics and the Herald Sun’s coverage of the government during the campaign had a very substantial impact. But Mayne’s boasts of unseating the Tories won’t do him any favours if he puts up his hand for party preselection, particularly following a lion of the quality of true-blue conservative Kevin Andrews.
A LEGACY OF BETRAYAL
After the sale, Mayne returned to his first love politics, launching the dismally unsuccessful People Power party, that attempted to exploit disabilities and carer groups to get behind Mayne’s upper house candidacy. People Power imploded as Mayne’s dictatorial and dishonest style divided the micro-party into more factions than a Victorian caucus retreat.
He fled the scene of that disaster and then tried his hand at the Manningham council, while turning the $1 million he’d received from the sale of Crikey into a much smaller pile due to poor investments in equities and plunging a fortune into the financial basket-case the Mayne Report.
“(Mayne) goes through friends like most people go through hand towels…”
Mayne was elected in 2008 to the local council area in Manningham, on a platform of accountability and toughening up on the sleepy council administration. Those who backed him in, handing him a place on their reform ticket are just the latest in Mayne’s long list of the betrayed.
“We were warned Mayne was a user and a charlatan. We didn’t listen,” one municipal activist who has been sickened by Mayne’s performance on the council.
“He was elected to reform the council. He has turned into the CEO’s strongest public defender. It’s all because he has been told by the council bureaucracy that if he doesn’t rock the boat, they’ll pave the way for greater glory,” they reported.
MAYNE DESPERATE TO REBUILD HIS REPUTATION
The Manningham Leader recently did a puff profile piece on Mayne that was arranged by the council’s spin-doctors in which he was lavished with praise, he returned the favour by pledging to fight for a renewal of the Council CEO’s contract. The CEO’s credentials and competence have been under constant fire by worried locals.
“She’s a social worker and is not up to it,” one complained. “There are more social workers in the council hierarchy than there are social problems in the municipality.”
“Mayne was elected to make necessary changes. Mayne once again has bitten the hand that fed him and has feathered his own bed. He’s an immoral man, no doubt about it, it’s all about him. He goes through friends like most people go through hand towels.”
Mayne is desperate to reposition his damaged reputation though, posing for pics with his three children and wifey in the local paper and telling the scribe earlier this month:
“I am actually very quiet, almost a bit shy (and) I hate confrontation,” Cr Mayne said. “I’m a family guy I quite enjoy staying home on a Saturday night and reading a book.”
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Can’t we just [deleted] him and move on?
How familiar…
Up in NSW we have a similar problem who compensate for their lack of talent and principles with a massive dose of ambition.
We have “king of the kids” Alexandre Hack who backstabbed the very people who got him into parliament so he could build up his own power base in young liberals and ALSF so he could start getting his mates into parliament and assist him in his wet dream of one day becoming PM. This guys only experiencing outside of being a hack and staffer is stacking shelves at Coles. A great rep for his electorate.
Then we have the carpetbagger YL prez Scott Farklow, who famously ran the stop the iron cove bridge campaign, exposed as a failed attempt to get preselection for Drummoyne. Despite being 26 he still muddies his hands in the dirty world of student politics at SULC promoting incompetent but controllable people like Sarsha to prez and threatening his opponents with losing staffer jobs. He is fat, unemployed and has subsequently sold out on every principle he perviously pretended to have. His only experience outside of being a staffer is two weeks at Deloitte after which he got the flick.
The future of politics in NSW looks bright.
Liberals are funny but what’s hilarious is the blood about to flow once the Premier’s view about head office is implemented.
The Premiers faction has disrespected his will for long enough.
The Socialist Left under Kim Carr have stacked head office with Kosmos’s mates and now his wife if you don’t mind. All of them will go once the Premiers candidate is installed.
Kosmos’s mates also undermined direct mail guru Paul Haseloff, with a B-grade SL hack. He’s gone on day one.
Droutsas is also for the high jump. Brown nosing Newnham and meddling in the HSU have been too distracting for him even if he gets off the forgery charges.
Talented but an ego out of control is the popular view.
In their place will come a new generation of quality groomed by Feeney like Tom Cargill, Nick Reece and Nathan Lambert.
Reece is backed by Feeney until the election as a compromise, Shorten can claim Reece all he wants, Nick respects Feeney’s judgement as a campaign strategist. Reece will then get Feeney’s blessing for Batman Batman when Ferguson gets the shove. Cargill’s succession is then assured.
The nightmare of barely literate SL drones running Head Office is nearly over.
Good luck at centrelink, Reece is coming…
Stephen Mayne = FFFF AAAA III L
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Will Stephen Mayne get away with it…hmmmm….no.
Come on Andy, you can do better than that. Even in the very unlikely chance Mayne was to apply for membership of the party (of which it’s no guarentee he would be allowed in) and then run for pre-selection, he would have buckleys of winning.
From your scathing descriptions Mayne could be a minister in a Turnbull Government, if he were to win Government in some other spacial dimension.
can just see state assembly approving mayne’s membership application – seconds after hell freezes over
Stephen who?
He ran against Jeff. He set up his own political party. His membership would have to go to the Party’s HQ. And there he would be told to get on his enviro-friendly bike, and be on his way.
I’m in Mannhingam and Mayne rarely comes to notice. Manningham is muc the same as other councils: a cushy place to work. Guaranteed income – just raise the rates if running short — and all the usual nonsense about the environment and sustainability, whatever that is.
Mayne would be easy pickings when the submissions to the electoral matters committee is read. false meetings, illegal expulsions of members, back dating of memberships, rules of prople power alteres to have never ending members,, The list goes on.
The Libs must be desperate to consider Mayne.
Why is people power still registered. People Power has not lodged its last 2 annual statements.
The minister who controls the Assocaitions incorporations act, should now instruct the registra to de-register people power.
Typical of Mayne to walk out on people power.
I suppose its like the worker in the stables who worked out if you kick the shit about for long enough it disappears
This is perfect.
If Stephen stands, we might get to see a tanked up Ted shove Steve off the stage as he talks to his followers.
Oops .. sorry, I think I might have done something like that a while ago…
Yes Honey…
They and you are desperate.
Oh well…
Stephen Mayne has more teeth than fifty rabid dingoes.
Vexnews, by comparison, is toothless, infertile and incontinent!
… and of course, SM is watching this post by post, as he tries to ressurect his career, hoping that Mr Price isn’t watching him hoping to sue him again…
He just likes being noticed.
The people of Manningham elected a freakshow
having listened to some of the council audio, well i think the people of heide ward made a huge mistake. this guy is a complete sycophant. activist? hahaha…. recites the doncaster hill spiel (8000 new residents..blah) word for word like a council officer…thinks a cycling plan with a route that has a 25% gradient in one street is rideable. very naive man, just out to get some self promotion eg mayoral position, then to state politics…actually thought he’d give the council a good shake up, but i was naive myself. he’s fake.