Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews Party
https://viclabor.org/
* This party seems to be spearheaded by one "Mx Tosh-Jake Finnigan" (Mx?). Their
policy document seems to be overshadowed by Finnigan's personal story claiming
she(?) was involved in the exposure of the Labor party's red shirts scandal.
This is somewhat compelling, but certainly doesn't imply much in the way of
policy.
* The page goes on to list some policies, which are basically all about fixing
things by getting rid of Daniel Andrews. It seems the only real policy there
besides a general de-Danning of Victoria is digging up the Red Shirts scandal
again and increasing oversight of the govenrnment bodies that investigated it
before (which are supposed to be independent already).
* As Finnigan claims to have been a "staffer" for Labor at the time, it
may be fair to assume that she(?) basically stands by traditional Labor
policies without the influence of Andrews. Still not really what I'm looking
for, but certainly an improvement on the present Labor party nonetheless.
* One surprising thing is that they seem to be based in rural victoria (the
same town where "spokesperson" Finnigan is also listed at as as candidate).
* But then maybe they don't exist at all! One of Victoria's "preference
whisperers" has been claiming he invented it as a way to harvest preferences
to direct at other parties paying him for those votes. According to Finnigan
though, Mr Druery had "f**k all involvement", and that indeed seems quite
likely.
https://www.6newsau.com/post/glenn-druery-reveals-the-sack-dan-andrews-party-is-one-of-mine-in-a-leaked-video
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-17/calls-for-group-voting-ticket-reform-victoria/101663588
* This party apparantly believes "if you can't beat 'em, domain poach them".
The viclabor.org domain is for sale on their store page, for $388,000.00.
"the same amount Victorian Labor corruptly rorted from the Victorian
taxpayer under Dan Andrews in the Red Shirts scandal". That page also
suggests some further bad blood with Labor over a mis-handled compaint.
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I certainly don't like Dan Andrews, and agree with much many of the points
this party makes against him. Also assuming it's true, I quite respect the
pure bitterness of this story from Finnigan, who certainly seems to be
spearheading all this. The idea of someone leaving an office screaming "I'll
go set up the sack Dan Andrews party then!", and actually doing it, appeals
to me in a certain way. But they don't really have aby policies, so it's hard to
make a rational argument in their favour overall.
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