Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Business hitlisted Liberal suggests reinstating Bjelke-Petersonesque gerrymander to save own seat

It's been a busy day today. So much Tory corruption, so little time.

An MP hitlisted by the Liberal's puppetmasters may lose his seat in a rezoning by the independent Australian Electoral Commission, but Tory incumbent Alby Schultz has hit out at his own party arguing that the party should oppose a future decision of the independent commission because it is not in the their partisan interest.

Unbelievably he is now publicly arguing for an electoral gerrymander along the lines of Tory hero Joe Bjelke-Peterson's model, stating

We should be looking at perhaps reducing the number of people required to make up a seat in the rural sector and increasing the number of constituents in the urban base seats


Basically, saying goodbye to one value one vote to give extra weight to rural voters, the same sort of logic that turned Bjelke-Peterson into an virtually untouchable dictator who routinely won elections without getting anything like a majority vote.

Thankfully, this Tory's days are numbered, facing a pincer movement, with democracy moving in on one side and big business moving in on the other.

What a tool.

Read the full debacle here.

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