That Freaking Old Hippie Raised HOW MUCH?
By Darryl Mason
There's something much scarier for the Liberal Party than imagining a future without Peter Costello.
It's this :
Senator Brown's so-called Wielangta forest fund had already raised $739,000....Bob Brown announced, after losing a legal battle against a logging corporation, that if he was unable to pay more than $240,000 in court costs he could face being expelled from the Senate. In less than a week, Brown raised more than three times that figure through thousands of donors.
The Liberals couldn't raise $739,000 through donors that fast, even with a series of dinners starring John Howard and Peter Costello
No wonder the Liberals are so pissed :
Liberal senator Eric Abetz has accused Greens leader Bob Brown of misleading the public over claims he was approaching bankruptcy and could have been expelled from the Senate.Senator Brown was more likely to be "ethically bankrupt'' than genuinely bankrupt, Senator Abetz said."Clearly the senator does not abide by the same accountability rules he so self-righteously insists being imposed on everybody else.''
The Greens leader must now disclose all amounts he has received, when he received them, to whom they were paid and how much money was involved, Senator Abetz told the upper house.
"Be accountable. Immediately disclose to the Senate ... exactly how much your fund raised prior to last week's appeal and disclose and substantiate your progressive and personal legal costs.''
And Bob Brown will do it. They've got nothing on him. It's one of the reasons why Liberals like Abetz hate him so much.
Brown is too clean, too honest, with too little, or nothing at all, to hide.
The Liberals have spent a lot of money over the years trying to get dirt on Brown that they can use against him in the media, or behind the scenes. And they found fuck all.
Abetz is making himself look like a jealous, petty arsehole, while providing Bob Brown with yet another opportunity to show why he is one of the most honest, respected, and quietly admired, politicians in the country.
5 comments:
You say "Abetz is making himself look like a jealous, petty arsehole". The main reason for that, of course, is that Abetz is a jealous, petty arsehole. A bit like a pitbull without a target.
Hear hear.
Whatever your convictions, you cannot deny that Bob Brown fights a fair fight and regularly acts against self-interest by campaigning for more open government .... the only pollie to recommend an MP pay freeze during the GFC.
There was an old agitprop motto from the 70s "imagine if schools & hospitals had allthe funding they needed and the military had to hold cake stall to buy weapons".
What a shame that the Tories don't have to do that.
Maybe Sen Brown could use some of the excess for the Customs whistleblower sent broke by his legal costs fighting first the Rodent's government now Krudd & Co
Do you mean Allan Kessing? He's being pursued by Rudd?
A brilliant idea, but as much respect as I have for the man, I think Bob probably prefers to keep his politics to tree-related matters.
Brown will not use the evidence available to support his alleged anti-war stance. All he has to do is to expose the fraud of the 'official Bush Believer's 911Conspiracy Theory" which was ised to make war and conccoct a 'war on terrorism'.
He could start by publicising the Niels Harrit paper (with 8 other scientists) confirming the finding of 'nano thermitic residue in the 911 twin towers' dust samples. it is a militarised nano thermitic explosive.
If he does not do that, then he is not fair dinkum, pretty simple to tell what he is.
For more; see patriotsquestion911.com, ae911truth.com and 911blogger.com.
By the way, Brown has been informed for the last four years on most of the evidence but remains silent, now why would that be when the scientific evidence in both physics and chemistry is irrefutable and clearly proves that the twin towers and building No 7 (ever heard of 47 storey buidling No 7?) were blown 'up'.
By the way the 'controlled mass media with it's weapons of mass deception' will not report on the Harrit paper (4.4.09) either..it would ruin their well earned title!!
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