Aussie Votes: Sports and Motor Enthusiasm Kangaroo Poo

The Sports Party gets in with a candidate having won … point 22 percent of the vote.  The Party does not have a platform beyond Sports, which they are highly in favor of.

Despite being within touching distance of pinching a Senate seat from under the noses of Labor and the Nationals in Western Australia, Mr Dropulich admitted his party has not yet devised policies on any non-sporting issues. If it’s not sports-related, at this stage we are just going to wait and see if we get in, then we can address all those issues,” he said.
And he also conceded he will be on a steep learning curve if this week’s vote count delivers him to the Senate despite getting just 0.22 per cent of the primary vote.
“Up until a couple of days ago, I was just another member of the general public, getting my information from various media outlets. If we do get in I’ll look forward to getting into the Senate and listening to what all those issues are and listening to both sides of the argument, and making informed decisions,” he said.
With just over 1900 primary votes, his polling numbers were every bit as small as his policy platform. But Mr Dropulich denied that his success will come courtesy of preference flows from less politically engaged above-the-line voters.
Counting is ongoing, and a final result is not expected until next week, although all predictions suggest Mr Dropulich will be Canberra-bound.
The Australian Sports Party used a sporting analogy to describe the situation to its fans on Facebook, alongside a photograph of a pair of AFL umpires.
”The review is underway & it looks like the Aust Sports Party has kicked a senate goal!!!” it said.

Hm.  It’s kind of like the campaign rhetoric I imagine we’ll get when Tim Tebow runs for political office… or, better still since Tebow will bring out some religiosity into the mix, the type we got from Chris Dudley.

Meanwhile, the Motoring Enthusiasm Party, who has come into the Senate having won point five two percent of the vote — well, now that he’s in it’s time to unload the scandal sheet of his past.

In a video taken from his YouTube account, which was made private soon after the election on Saturday night, Mr Muir appears to be filmed taking part in a backyard kangaroo faeces fight.
The video, titled “Family Fight in Australia”, appears to depict the likely senator, who sports a thick moustache and goatee, running around a garden with his friends, who are hurling kangaroo faeces and laughing hysterically.
We know it is kangaroo faeces because the person holding the video camera picks up a brown pellet, examines it, and says: “This is kangaroo poo. Yum yum.”

How does he defend this?

Comment was sought from Mr Muir, but the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party’s media spokesman Keith Littler said Mr Muir would not be available to talk at all on Monday.
Asked whether Mr Muir denied taking part in the faeces-throwing video, Mr Littler said: “No, he’s just not available”.
Would the likely senator respond at all?
“What’s the right of response anyway?” Mr Littler said. “People have fun in their lives. What’s the big deal?”

Hm.  If a Sex Party candidate ever gets in, he can just copy and paste the Motoring Enthusiast Party.  Here’s the more official comment.

“Before all this come around I was just an ordinary Australian, my past does not represent who I am now and has nothing to do with the party,” he said on the Seven Network.
“The past is the past.”
And an explanation for the kangaroo poo throwing?
“My brother and myself were just having a bit of a wrestle that day and you just end up on the ground,” he said.
“If you haven’t spent much time in the bush, you go up there and you discover there is poo everywhere.”

Okay.  But why does he feel the need to post this revelation on youtube?

The Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party website says its core values include ”mateship”, small government, lower taxation and ”taking pride in our vehicles”.
Maybe the American Tea Party can pick up the “motoring enthusiasm” angle?

And then there’s this…
In May 2011, when Osama bin Laden was killed, Mr Muir tweeted: ”Media is reporting that the person who orfered [sic] the 911 terror attacks is dead . . . what a load of shit, george bush is still alive!”

You know, if it weren’t for the “Kangaroo Poo fight incident”, this would be the major marker that the media reports on this new Senator… but no, this is what we’re getting:

Unemployed father of five Ricky Muir, the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party candidate once involved in a kangaroo poo fight, is one who could win a seat off the back of a complex flow of preferences.

The 9/11 Truther comment (or joke?) gets second billing to the kangaroo poo fight.

Anyway, these two lead a pack of 6 “WTF” new Senators.

Self-described “senator for the donkeys” (his name appeared first on the NSW Senate ballot paper) is staunchly pro-gun.
David Leyonhjelm is likely to pick up a NSW senate seat due to a combination of preference deals, donkey votes and the fact voters mistook his Liberal Democrat party for the Liberals.
Mr Leyonhjelm says it is “objective fact” last year’s Sandy Hook massacre could have been prevented if teachers had guns, and is advocating for a new approach to Sydney’s gun crime problem which involves giving people licences to carry weapons.

Finally I have an understanding of who “Palmer” is in the “Palmer United Party”… it’s like if Donald Trump set up a political party.  Or, if I look down to the “CIA / Greenpeace Conspiracy Theory” to destroy Aussie Industry … hm… a hybrid of Trump and Ross Perot?

Former soldier Jacqui Lambie began her Senate campaign as an independent before turning to Clive Palmer because she was running out of money.
And against same environmentalism and sex marriage.  Hm.
FORMER rugby league prop Glenn Lazarus, who once posed naked with only a brick, looks set to hold a Queensland Senate spot.
I don’t know if this helped him or hurt him in the election.

And the Family First Party seems to be just what you expect from the name…

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