ACT Liberals Twitter horrors

I live in Macgregor said :

…(describing what I believe was a 10am announcement and doorstop at Canberra Hospital with Andrew Barr, to which I believe the local media were alerted about “a major funding announcement” at around 8.30am)

and this is Zed’s sole tweet in the past 24 hours…

@ZedMLA:heading out with @BrendanSmythMLA to enjoy some brain games at #CanCon. (timestamp 10:14am)

nuf said.

While I find the ACT Liberals to be pretty much non-existent for any meaningful purpose, I’m not sure what you expect? Should Zed have gone to the announcement and supported Kate? Should he have vocally opposed it (simply because he is in opposition, and that is what oppositions do)? Should he have supported it if he agrees with it, giving his opponent free publicity?

I think the Libs should call upon the Chief Minister to do something. Its why we voted them into Opposition after all.

Just eating some lunch and thought I should check for comments on yesterday’s post.

Seems about 50/50 in terms of interest, after JB batted off the conversation thread with a reasonably relevant comparison to other people who have made offline complaints about online “sexism” and “bullying”.

In terms of a quick response to some of the questions, I should clarify that although I’m not a regular poster to RA and many people on this site might not know me, I have never intended my twitter account to be annonymous (unlike most people on twitter, I have always actually used my real name). Am always happy (as JB knows) to come clean as the “Chief Complaints Officer” of the ACT Branch of the ALP. It’s what I get paid to do 24/7. Doesn’t mean I don’t have a life beyond work. But it does mean the job can occassionally become all-consuming if you try and do it well.

And the whole point about my post was the sanctimonious over-the-top reaction by Zed to what was really a brief exchange on twitter. Someone summed it up beautifully when they wrote “Anyone with a decent head on them would’ve looked into the term before going nuclear on it”. I don’t know how often he writes to the Chief Minister demanding apologies and immediate action but it seemed to be a bit OTP for Zed to do it about a twitter comment when there is so many more important things he could be focussed on. (ditto for his staff and the other Liberal MLAs)

Anyway, Zed just keeps on digging…

At the same time that the Chief Minister is today announcing a massive new injection of public funds into improving local health services, Zed is tweeting about visiting CanCon with his mate Brendan.

Not that there is anything wrong with that, but it kind of re-aligns all the previous posts into a relevant perspective, in my humble opinion. 🙂

And in case JB doesn’t have the time to cut and paste images of the tweets (for the benefit of Rioters not on twitter)….

@KatyGMLA: ACT Govt transfers money allocated for government office block into health infrastructure program #canberra

(describing what I believe was a 10am announcement and doorstop at Canberra Hospital with Andrew Barr, to which I believe the local media were alerted about “a major funding announcement” at around 8.30am)

and this is Zed’s sole tweet in the past 24 hours…

@ZedMLA:heading out with @BrendanSmythMLA to enjoy some brain games at #CanCon. (timestamp 10:14am)

nuf said.

Elias Hallaj

and for the record. I live in “old” Macgregor :)).

Maybe spent too much time in new Macgregor under the high voltage power lines.

It’s noted in the CT article that neither of the party flacks identifies themselves as such on their Twitter profiles.

Mr Hallaj didn’t use an anonymous name. If his twitter account read “I live in Macgregor” without identifying himself, that’s one thing. But given he used his real name – one quick google search identifies who is. People who follow him would know who he is.

PS. I do not work for any party.

Party apparatchiks post sycophantic posts? Whodathunkit?

Or is this just a case of troll (Lib) vs troll (Lab)? Interesting that Mr Hallaj didn’t identify himself as a Labor flunky before firing broadsides at Liberal flunkies.

Oh the banality….

schmeah said :

LSWCHP said :

m_ratt said :

And for those (like myself) to whom the name Elias Hallaj meant nothing, it should be noted for context that he is the State Secretary of the ACT Labor Branch.
http://www.alp.org.au/federal-government/labor-people/elias-hallaj/

I thought something like that would be the case. Once again, both sides of politics in the ACT manage to make themselves look like imbeciles.

I don’t know what the fuss is. All Elias has done is argue that the Australian has printed something inaccurate, sounds like a pretty reasonable guy to me.

It’s a question of appropriate disclosure of interests. It’s one thing when a private citizen starts duking it out with politicians in a public forum. That can be useful, and possibly even entertaining. But when the citizen actually turns out to be an apparatchik of another political party engaging in the usual grubby point scoring on the part of his party machine, that makes it useless, tawdry and uninteresting.

As I said originally, neither crew has covered themselves in glory.

Mr Hallaj probably wasn’t being sexist. Looks like the ALP going to go hard on social media this election

LSWCHP said :

m_ratt said :

And for those (like myself) to whom the name Elias Hallaj meant nothing, it should be noted for context that he is the State Secretary of the ACT Labor Branch.
http://www.alp.org.au/federal-government/labor-people/elias-hallaj/

I thought something like that would be the case. Once again, both sides of politics in the ACT manage to make themselves look like imbeciles.

I don’t know what the fuss is. All Elias has done is argue that the Australian has printed something inaccurate, sounds like a pretty reasonable guy to me.