The view on my trip home is now despoiled by numerous candidate posters that have sprung up overnight like weeds from lawns. One house nearby is almost invisible behind a barrage of signs promoting our current member, Angela D'Amore. Her married name is actually Tripodi, but I guess she doesn't want to use it since her brother in law is Joe Tripodi (a Labor hack) who appears to have pulled enough strings to parachute his sister in law into a safe seat. There was no Labor pre-selection; head office just dumped her on the local party officials and told them to make sure she got elected.
This makes her less than popular amongst some of the local Labor party members, particularly those that have been putting in the hard yards for years, grinding away at local government etc etc and waiting for someone to die so that they could have a crack. She's young enough to serve for another 20 years or so, so you can imagine how jacked off those 40-something alternatives are. No chance now, unless she falls under a bus of they move further west to a new electorate and start again.
I might have to sign up for a bit of how-to-vote card handing out this year, just so that I can have a chat with the Labor troops at the polling booths. That's if any of them bother to turn out to hand out the cards for her.
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