{"id":22610,"date":"2010-12-04T01:34:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T15:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=22610"},"modified":"2010-12-04T01:34:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T15:34:44","slug":"have-a-sausage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=22610","title":{"rendered":"Have a sausage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brumby ‘surrounded by B-grade sycophants’<\/a>
\nPaul Austin
\nThe Age<\/em>
\nDecember 4, 2010<\/p>\n

SAVAGE recriminations have begun over Labor’s shock state election loss, with a former insider launching an extraordinary attack on John Brumby and the ALP hierarchy.<\/p>\n

George Droutsas, who was senior campaign officer in Victorian Labor’s head office from 2006 until last year, has told The Age<\/em> that Mr Brumby surrounded himself with B-grade sycophants who refused to give him bad news or tough advice. He says voters regarded Mr Brumby as arrogant, dismissive and a poor listener who refused to hear genuine community concerns, including about dilapidated public transport, alcohol-fuelled street violence and rising electricity and water bills.<\/p>\n

The decision to build Labor’s election campaign around Mr Brumby was a lethal mistake, turning the election into a referendum on him and the 11-year-old government’s record, Mr Droutsas says…<\/p>\n

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See also<\/em> : I For One Welcome Our New Tory Overlords<\/a> (November 28, 2010).<\/p>\n

*Following the Liberals’ decision to put the Greens last<\/a>, the Greens were fuct. The closest they came to winning a seat was in Melbourne<\/a>, where law-talking guy Brian Walters<\/a> got 31.83% of the vote, just under 4% behind Labor’s Bronwyn Pike (35.77%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brumby ‘surrounded by B-grade sycophants’ Paul Austin The Age December 4, 2010 SAVAGE recriminations have begun over Labor’s shock state election loss, with a former insider launching an extraordinary attack on John Brumby and the ALP hierarchy. George Droutsas, who … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-22610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-state","tag-2010-victorian-state-election"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-5SG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22610"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22617,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610\/revisions\/22617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}