Comments on: Cherie Burton MP, Part Three: From tireless to exhausted http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/12/cherie-burton-mp-part-three-from-tireless-to-exhausted/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:20:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jenny L http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/12/cherie-burton-mp-part-three-from-tireless-to-exhausted/#comment-6884 Jenny L Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-6884 Dave - quite seriously its a wonder this story hasn't made international headlines! An MP threatens his sick and elderly constituents for personal gain. <br />It smells of a scam or he's really lost it. Its predatory behaviour and if these female pensioners had paid up the MP would add $20,000 plus to his income. How many other MPs have used their power in scare tactics?<br />Where does Rudd's $1400 economic boost go - back into the pockets of atleast one pollie!! It's a scam or he's nuts. I really cant see the difference in a Premier being threatened for gain and constituents similarly extorted. <br />It's an amazing story not just about the pollie about how the Labor Party isn't reacting accordingly?? Dave - quite seriously its a wonder this story hasn’t made international headlines! An MP threatens his sick and elderly constituents for personal gain.
It smells of a scam or he’s really lost it. Its predatory behaviour and if these female pensioners had paid up the MP would add $20,000 plus to his income. How many other MPs have used their power in scare tactics?
Where does Rudd’s $1400 economic boost go - back into the pockets of atleast one pollie!! It’s a scam or he’s nuts. I really cant see the difference in a Premier being threatened for gain and constituents similarly extorted.
It’s an amazing story not just about the pollie about how the Labor Party isn’t reacting accordingly??

]]> By: Dave Liberts http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/12/cherie-burton-mp-part-three-from-tireless-to-exhausted/#comment-6885 Dave Liberts Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-6885 Wow, Jenny L - I hadn't seen that news. A Labor MP threatening a branch member with legal action while she's recovering from a stroke? Could you get any lower?<br /><br />Here's a more detailed article on the same bizarre topic: http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2008/12/12/31001_gold-coast-top-story.html<br /><br />Jenny is right - this clown seems to be a much bigger story than Cherie Burton. Wow, Jenny L - I hadn’t seen that news. A Labor MP threatening a branch member with legal action while she’s recovering from a stroke? Could you get any lower?

Here’s a more detailed article on the same bizarre topic: http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2008/12/12/31001_gold-coast-top-story.html

Jenny is right - this clown seems to be a much bigger story than Cherie Burton.

]]> By: Jenny L http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/12/cherie-burton-mp-part-three-from-tireless-to-exhausted/#comment-6886 Jenny L Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-6886 Here's another story on the MP suing his party members and constituents!! As the nation lays off skilled workers the Labor party is ambivalent about an MP clearly unfit for his job. I just did some googling on the electorate and its last member Robert Poole was absent having knee surgery in Thailand where his wife was living! Then Premier Beattie OK'd that because he said his neighbouring MP Don Livingstone would sit in for him. When Livingstone was found holidaying with Poole in Thailand Beattie ordered Poole back and he chose to resign instead causing a bi-election. No wonder Beattie hot-footed it to the US!<br /><br />http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/suing-mp-asked-to-consider-political-future/2008/12/12/1228585103904.html Here’s another story on the MP suing his party members and constituents!! As the nation lays off skilled workers the Labor party is ambivalent about an MP clearly unfit for his job. I just did some googling on the electorate and its last member Robert Poole was absent having knee surgery in Thailand where his wife was living! Then Premier Beattie OK’d that because he said his neighbouring MP Don Livingstone would sit in for him. When Livingstone was found holidaying with Poole in Thailand Beattie ordered Poole back and he chose to resign instead causing a bi-election. No wonder Beattie hot-footed it to the US!

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/suing-mp-asked-to-consider-political-future/2008/12/12/1228585103904.html

]]> By: Jenny L http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/12/cherie-burton-mp-part-three-from-tireless-to-exhausted/#comment-6887 Jenny L Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-6887 Cherie pretty much sounds a prime loser on parliamentary performance but maybe she's like so many MPs these days - unable to string two words let alone a sentence together. The literacy levels in state and federal parliaments are on average appalling. If selection criteria were attached to MP roles a good 70% of our MPs wouldn't be where they are. And nor should the Qld Labor MP today caught for a second time bullying elderly constituents for benefit - this time he wanted $10,000 compensation!! Why on earth are so many really dopey b*stards finding their way into positions so clearly beyond their ability and are political parties so bereft of membership they can only field morons? Society and the economy are increasingly complex and sophisticated yet you'd swear the ALP was recruiting from correctional centres. Read this!<br />http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24789437-3102,00.html Cherie pretty much sounds a prime loser on parliamentary performance but maybe she’s like so many MPs these days - unable to string two words let alone a sentence together. The literacy levels in state and federal parliaments are on average appalling. If selection criteria were attached to MP roles a good 70% of our MPs wouldn’t be where they are. And nor should the Qld Labor MP today caught for a second time bullying elderly constituents for benefit - this time he wanted $10,000 compensation!! Why on earth are so many really dopey b*stards finding their way into positions so clearly beyond their ability and are political parties so bereft of membership they can only field morons? Society and the economy are increasingly complex and sophisticated yet you’d swear the ALP was recruiting from correctional centres. Read this!
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24789437-3102,00.html

]]> By: Dave Liberts http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/12/cherie-burton-mp-part-three-from-tireless-to-exhausted/#comment-6888 Dave Liberts Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-6888 Ah Ha! Now there's an interesting line: "While she may be hyper-active in the high streets and back streets of the electorate, her performance in parliament has been lamentable: no speeches or questions throughout 2008 and only four vocal interventions in 2007 lasting less than 12 minutes"<br /><br />Sorry Alex, but if you concede that she's been hyperactive in the electorate, then she's earning her dosh. I've been interested to read the articles about Cherie Burton this week, but speaking in Parliament is IN REALITY no big deal. So she only asked a couple of Dorothy Dixers? Big deal. In theory her sole responsibility is to represent her constituents in Parliament, but in practice an MP who is active locally and who can lobby ministers directly (or via advisers) about constituent issues is far more use than an MP who loves the sound of their own voice going into Hansard but does little more. Ah Ha! Now there’s an interesting line: “While she may be hyper-active in the high streets and back streets of the electorate, her performance in parliament has been lamentable: no speeches or questions throughout 2008 and only four vocal interventions in 2007 lasting less than 12 minutes”

Sorry Alex, but if you concede that she’s been hyperactive in the electorate, then she’s earning her dosh. I’ve been interested to read the articles about Cherie Burton this week, but speaking in Parliament is IN REALITY no big deal. So she only asked a couple of Dorothy Dixers? Big deal. In theory her sole responsibility is to represent her constituents in Parliament, but in practice an MP who is active locally and who can lobby ministers directly (or via advisers) about constituent issues is far more use than an MP who loves the sound of their own voice going into Hansard but does little more.

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