9:36AM Jess McGuire | Victorian blogger Hamish Jones
made the news this morning after he was forced to stand down as the Liberal candidate for Maribyrnong following the revelation he’d said some rather unflattering things about Labor’s Lynne Kosky on his now-deleted blog Ranting And Rambling.
A Liberal candidate for this year’s federal election has been forced to stand down after describing Victorian Transport Minister Lynne Kosky as a “bitch” and “f—wit” on his blog. Hamish Jones, 24, was the Liberal candidate for the safe Labor seat of Maribyrnong, where he was pitted against ALP heavyweight Bill Shorten.
But Mr Jones quit after it emerged that he had abused Ms Kosky in his blog, Ranting and Rambling, in April. He was responding to an email Ms Kosky had sent to her state colleagues, saying that they should not refer their constituents’ complaints about public transport to her. Instead, she advised them to go directly to the private operators of the public transport system or the ombudsman.
When the blog remarks were brought to the attention of state Liberal director Julian Sheezel, he immediately told Mr Jones such comments were unacceptable, leaving him no option but to quit. The blog last night appeared to have been taken down.
Mr Sheezel told The Age last night: “Hamish Jones had a blog which contained inappropriate and unacceptable material. His candidacy was untenable.”
If using the term “fuckwit” in an idiotic online rant against someone with a different political ideology makes ones candidacy in an election “untenable”, then our future political career is fucking cunted.
Well, unless we join the Labor Party.
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Here’s Google’s cache of Ranting And Rambling which contains the controversial post in question – scroll down to April 12th)
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