Deb Foskey to Hang Up Her Hat

Good riddance to bad rubbish. I won’t miss her soppy voice and her whining and moaning on WIN News every night.

“Born 12 November 1949 in rural Victoria, Deb has worked as a farmer, teacher, environmentalist and mum to her two daughters. She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Political Science and Industrial Relations, a Master of Letters in Human Ecology, a Diploma of Education and a Bachelor of Arts.” Quote from Blog Site

Perrenial Effen Student. Effen clowns arse. F Off Foskey and good riddance. The fact that she ever got elected is a sad idictment on the clowns that are the mojority of the ACT voting population. I am quite sure that some git parading under the Greens banner will replace her and do as little as she has except occupying public housing on a large wage and stating the bleeding obvious. God fcuk me it can’t be that hard to get a Doctorate of Philosophy and all those other useless letters after her name. Perhaps all the students at Koomari would be elegible for the conferral of these degrees.

It wont wash Thumper – Clowns frighten little children, sorry … I meant softheads.

Nemo – any clowns? Or is that assumed?

“I hope the Greens can find and run some proper candidates next time.”

From the front page of todays Canberra Times ‘other former candidates such as Amanda Bresnan and acrobat and performer Elena Kirschbaum could also run.’

The ACT Legislative Assembly needs more acrobats and performers…

Dr Foskey is a good nut, but I hate hearing her Legislative Assembly speeches. They sound like an essay written by a junior high schooler. They’re full of speculation and no answers to the issues she raises. Practically every sentence includes “I think”, “I hope” or “I wonder”.

I did stumble across her “deblog” one day though, which was actually an interesting read.
http://www.debfoskey.com/deblog.html

Myrmecia, she does read her speeches a lot of the time (not necessarily the times you saw her though!) because she faxes them to our office for easy transcriptions. 🙂

Does this mean she gets her old house in Yarralumla back ?

I heard Deb Foskey speak as an MLA on three occasions. I thought she did well each time: she spoke without notes, sympathetically drawing together comments made by preceding speakers at the event (they were not experienced speakers) and giving them something substantial to think about to help them progress their causes. As 54-11 and aussielyn said she was damned hard working. My limited exposure, reinforced by the media coverage she received, impressed me.

If she stays around the ACT to deploy her energy and intellect, I predict success – or at least a formidable presence – for the issues she works on.

Good riddance to the old slapper.

stanhope next.

I agree, aussielyn. She has done an enormous amount of work behind the scenes, particularly in committees and scrutining legislation.

Quite rightly, she said on tonight’s news that she had been the only effective opposition, as the other mob were busy knifing each other.

I wonder if some of those RA posters who are bagging her out will be putting themselves up or will be doing something to support their preferred candidates. Lobbing hand grenades from the sidelines is fine, but I wonder how many of the criticisers actually contribute themselves.

I’m not a member of the Greens, but think that she has done an outstanding job covering all three electorates. How has your preferred candidate performed?