Steve Whan spits the dummy as Barilaro claims victory in Monaro

Whan’s father (Bob) actually represented the Federal seat of Eden Monaro not the State seat of Monaro.

Whan also used to work for Ros Kelly and played a leading role in her infamous whiteboard scandal.

Whan also ran unsuccessfully for an ACT Assembly seat and was twice unsuccessful in his bid to unseat Gary Nairn, the Liberal Member for Eden Monaro.

So his scorecard is six elections two wins and four losses – not so grand.

Barilaro’s swing was over 8% and in any other election that would be remarkable.

I don’t believe that Frank Pangallo’s (former Queanbeyan Mayor and unsuccessful ACT Assembly candidate) support for Whan helped him and if anything probably cost him votes as the ageing bitter Pangallo is as popular as a Green in a Synagogue in Queanbeyan now days.

Labor’s campaign in Monaro was appalling and unprofessional and attracted little local support.

BerraBoy68 said :

Waiting For Godot said :

People have had a gutful of the climate change/environmentalism cargo cult and are wising up to this whole scam and the very powerful people in the media and politics who have been pushing it relentlessly down our throats and brainwashing our children with their poison propaganda.

Good grief. ‘People’ have also had a gut-full of ‘people’ who exaggerate and generalise. Why not just say you’ve had a gut-full of it rather than try to make yourself sound like some kid of majority? You sure as hell don’t speak for the people I know.

You can only be told the sky is falling so many times before becoming desensitised to the message.

Waiting For Godot said :

People have had a gutful of the climate change/environmentalism cargo cult and are wising up to this whole scam and the very powerful people in the media and politics who have been pushing it relentlessly down our throats and brainwashing our children with their poison propaganda.

Good grief. ‘People’ have also had a gut-full of ‘people’ who exaggerate and generalise. Why not just say you’ve had a gut-full of it rather than try to make yourself sound like some kid of majority? You sure as hell don’t speak for the people I know.

My memory of Steve Whan will be of him criticising the Nationals for promising more money to promote Snowy Mountains tourism because “with climate change there will soon be no more snow”, and that the coalition “had their heads in the sand on the issue”. This was on WIN News the same day as the No Carbon Tax rally.

I am overjoyed that Whan lost, the NSW government was booted out and The Greens went backward.

People have had a gutful of the climate change/environmentalism cargo cult and are wising up to this whole scam and the very powerful people in the media and politics who have been pushing it relentlessly down our throats and brainwashing our children with their poison propaganda.

EvanJames said :

Good heavans, did he really say this?!
“Steve Whan came to me a couple of weeks ago and blinked those doggy-do eyes saying that if we didn’t direct preference him he’d lose the seat,” Mr Cockram said.
(from the CT article linked in the story above).

I hope he meant doggy-DOE eyes, not what they printed above! I’m sure his eyes don’t look anything like dog pooh.

He actually said “puppy dog eyes”. The shoddy old Green Left Daily gets it wrong again.

Holditz said :

Didn’t his father represent Labor for the same electorate?

Indeed he did – another member of the Comcar aristocracy

Good heavans, did he really say this?!
“Steve Whan came to me a couple of weeks ago and blinked those doggy-do eyes saying that if we didn’t direct preference him he’d lose the seat,” Mr Cockram said.
(from the CT article linked in the story above).

I hope he meant doggy-DOE eyes, not what they printed above! I’m sure his eyes don’t look anything like dog pooh.

Tetranitrate said :

We’re talking about greens voters anyway, they’re notorious for filling in every box and/or voting bellow the line.

Got a chuckle from that one, I vote Green and yes, I carefully number every box and gosh I do so hate those enourmous senate voting papers (scrolls).

Whan was a very good local member. he’s actually from Canberra (grew up here, was McMullan’s chief helper for many years), but the toxicity of the government he was in did for him. Although I haven’t seen the final results yet and it was still running very close.

He worked hard and he’s smart so you can understand his frustration at being kicked. That he was well-regarded is shown by the tight result, Monaro has usually been held by the Nationals, so he’s done double-well.

It’s a shame the Greens didn’t do better, Cockram is a Braidwood councillor and a fine upstanding fellow, I hope to see more of him in politics.

Whan was a senior member of the NSW Cabinet. He was a key member of the corrupt and incompentent NSW Government.

It’s all fine and dandy to say ‘oh he’s a great bloke’ or that ‘oh he delivered some local achievements’ – but at the same time he allowed the rest of NSW to burn.

Even before he was a NSW Cabinet Minister, he was a senior factional player in NSW Labor. It was his support that allowed Obied and co to survive and to wreck NSW.

Every decision the NSW Government took, Whan was a key player – Cabinet Minister, Junior Minister, Parliamentary Secretary, Factional Supporter, Backbencher, Staffer. He allowed the incompetence and corruption. He has paid for his failure to speak out against his NSW Labor colleagues or do anything about it.

Goodbye Whan, Goodbye NSW Labor – you won’t be missed.

In fairness, if you read the article, the “deserved” statement was attributed to a staffer (probably, by that time of the night, a drunk staffer), not to Whan. But don’t let that stop you all from treating it like he said it himself.