Senator Andrew Bartlett
Friday, July 29, 2005
 
Vegetarian bites the dust as meat chomping Morris set to assume Premier position
I have just seen news on the ABC website that Morris Iemma is now set to be endorsed by Labor’s NSW Caucus as the next Premier of that state, with the other main candidate (and early favourite for about 5 minutes) Carl Scully announcing he would not contest.

Carl Scully has apparently just been discovering that loyalty and friendship in politics can last as long as it’s convenient. I won’t make comment on my own experiences with that, but I did note in this Daily Telegraph piece that apparently people trying to discredit Scully’s electability had even being using his vegetarianism against him! Good to see such solid criteria being used by the ALP to determine who ends up leading our most populated state.

Maybe they can get Sam Kekovich to do another commercial for meat eating Morris after he gets sworn in next week.

Speaking of the Daily Tele, it seems they’ve been reading this blog again, with a story today mentioning this entry that touched on my viewing of the Fantastic Four. Whilst they have again ignored the whole point of what I was saying (as they have done once before), at least this time they called me Mr Fantastic, so I can’t be too grumpy. (a rewritten version of this, still misrepresenting me, also appeared in the Herald Sun nearly a week later).


UPDATE: More musings in this piece in the Sydney Morning Herald about whether Carl Scully’s aversion to flesh chewing cost him the Premiership, suggesting “a refusal to eat meat might be prejudical to those seeking public approval.” At least now I have an excuse for why the Democrats polled so badly when I was leader.

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