Grubby Family First tactics

Forgetting to ask themselves “what would Jesus do?”, Family First operatives have unethically flooded the radio talkback airwaves this morning in a last minute attempt to discredit The Greens.

At a few minutes past 9am on Jon Faine’s ABC774 program, caller Michelle spoke practically verbatim from this (PDF) Family First press release. She started by saying (I’m paraphrasing) “John, I’m disillusioned with the major parties and I was thinking about voting Green until I heard their candidate say something that I found really offensive to families.” She then read aloud the three-year-old quote from Greg Barber contained within the press release before crapping on about about how this anti-suburbs attitude is anti-family. Her speech was littered with the word “family” which was always emphasised. My suspicions about Michelle’s Family First connections were confirmed when she concluded her call by reading out the last paragraph of the press release almost word-for-word.

I can’t wait until my post-election blog on Sunday morning when I can crow about Family First being rejected wholesale by the electorate. I can see the headline now: Family First rejected by families.

3 comments on “Grubby Family First tactics”

Friday 24 November 2006, 3:27 pm #MrLefty

Galaxy poll showing 5% for Family First in regional Vic today, and 4% in Melbourne.

Friday 24 November 2006, 3:35 pm #The Editor

They’re doomed. I think I might just dance a little jig.

Saturday 25 November 2006, 2:32 pm #junaman

Nice blog you have over here!

I live in Melbourne, and my own blog is over at http://junaman.wordpress.com/, the last post is about the upcoming election. (I know I’m catering to a largely American audience.)

Hope that you voted for The Greens, at least into the upper house. :)
Pretty good prospects so far, and hopefully they take the balance of power.