Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but it must be acknowledged that the last few posts on this section were so out of whack it’s laughable. And as I was working in Penrith for the YR@W campaign over the last month I wonder what planet these people are from. Even before the Mr Kelly and Mr Chijoff scandal the writing was on the wall.

The unionists have their own office in Penrith and it has been there for yonks. They have been busy and don’t deserve any criticism from the previous contributor.

Very funny that fully sik made a mistake with another campaigners name. Just seems like a disgruntled individual who not only seems to know a few people within the labor party, but likes attacking a hardworking and genuine local candidate who has doorknocked a legitimate and significant number of houses in the electorate of Lindsay (i know my friends and I have been doorknocked).

On another note. By observation and from word of mouth I have noted a significant amount of Chijoff’s (VERY SIGNIFICANT) and Bradbury’s material in the letterboxes of Lindsay, but not a single piece from YRAW. Nice to see that YRAW are hard at work.

With the campaign director, Health Services Union official Mike Dickson having lots of trouble keeping the candidate focussed on being a candidate – with no help from a demanding candidate’s wife, poor old Mike has now got to deal with volunteers calling it quits with Bradbury because of his petulant attitude.

Frequent tantrums, dramas at home and a sense that he’s got it in the bag has Bradbury’s campaign director sweating bullets.

Meanwhile, over at the Your Rights At Work camp, true believers are getting peeved that Bradbury is taking them all for granted despite the promise to give Linda Everingham, local single mum and face of the local YR at W campaign an electorate officer’s possie in the new member’s office.

Y R at Workers are doing the loins’ share of hard slog, letter boxing etc while the Laborites aint doing much at all.

Nothing like Labor complacency.

Here I was driving down Jamison Road. Penrith, when a bus pulled out in front of me, in an obvious hurry. It was a blue and white ex-NSW Transit Authority, emblazoned with Kevin Rudd and Maxine McKew, complete with “Maxine McKew for Bennelong”. I thought the ex-leafy North Shore Mosman girl was a candidate for Bennelong, not Lindsay. Maybe she got lost withut her GPS, a bit like Bob and Blanche Hawke, when they missed the 2 Penrith turnoffs and kept on to Springwood before eventually finding their way back to Bob Carr’s 2003 campaign launch. Ah, there North Shore people, they make you laugh.

I suspect the bus was put into Lindsay as a stop-gap emergency measure to counter Karen Chijoff’s new huge mobile advertising billboard. Talk about confusing the electorate!

What I cannot believe is:
A) That the ALP preselected Bradbury – well, I suppose the TWU bought the preselection for him.
B) That St Kevin Rudd isn’t telling the TWU to bugger off. If he had any guts or morals he would
C) The media isn’t going to town on the Sheldon dirty money scam. I mean, taking money off companies for trade for inferior agreements at their worksites is morally abhorrant. Is the media so dumb and lazy that they cannot dig a little. If they scratched the surface there would have to be a resignation of a ALP candidate in a marginal seat (Bradbury) and quite possibly the resignation of a sitting Senator (Steve Hutchins) and maybe the disgrace of a ALP Senate candidate and former NSW General Secretary (Mark Arbib).

But what we’ll end up with is another lawyer -turned -politician who got to Canberra using the blood money taken from honest union members. What a joyful thing party politics is! I hope all those ALP party members are happy that their representatives are as rotten as a bucket of prawns left on cement in a heatwave.

The following glitterati of the ALP are closely associated to the TWU – that is, they have benefited either financially or thru their careers:
Mark Arbib
Steve Hutchins
Joe Tripodi
Prue Guillaume (ALP head office hack)
David Bradbury
Pat Sheehy
Diane Beamer (Steve Hutchins’ ex)
Michael Lee
John Della Bosca
Belinda Neale (Della’s wife)
and numerous others.

It is interesting to see Sheldon take the heat whereas he and his family have received nothing in return – politically.

It would be interesting if the numerous investigations announced by Joe Hockey would incorporate some of the people listed above.

As a person who has been a unionist all their life I am disgusted that not only a high level of corruption exists but all these pollies and would be pollies have their snouts in the trough. Especially those who have had no connection with workers, say for instance Bradbury – a tax lawyer who worked for Blake Dawson and Waldron – one of the companies hired by the Howard government to draft WORKCHOICES.

So, what happens if Hockey digs up the dirt? Will Steve Hutchins resign? Will Mark Arbib resign? Will David Bradbury resign (if elected)?
Will Della Bosca resign? And more importantly, will ALP head office finally get the guts to flush these parasites out of the party, the party that has always represented working people?

On a different note, what is Belinda Neale doing – the wife of a senior State government Minister and Chief of Staff to another, stating that if Rudd wins, he will ban with the Labor state governments and they will raise the level of the GST! Unfortunately, she is well placed to have this information.