Wednesday, March 19, 2008
CANDIDATES UNCONTAMINATED
Craigo reports:
Kate Ellis has employed Mia Handshin as a ministerial adviser.
Whoa! Break out the Cuervo! Other failed leftish election candidates seem to be doing all right, too. Courageous (Julia Gillard’s description) weatherman Mike Bailey - who quit the ABC for politics, according to an SMH tautology - now reads the weather for Nine during weekends and is media advisor for his state ALP friend Tony Kelly. Tormented Climate Change Coalition senate candidate Dr Karl Kruszelnicki spent much of the election campaign wondering if he’d ever work again:
Dr Kruszelnicki said it would “break his heart” if it turned out he had “burnt his bridges” by running in the federal election as a NSW senate candidate for the Climate Change Coalition ...
"I might have burnt my bridges,” he said from his hotel in Brisbane when asked if he’d return to his former positions.
"I might have been contaminated.
"I might have seriously done bad things to myself ... “
He said his future with the ABC was now in doubt.
Not to worry. Dr Karl returned to ABC TV in January, and his ABC biography politely avoids any mention of politics. Dr Karl also avoids mentioning a certain inconvenient V8 when asked what car he is currently driving:
We’ve got the 1987 Peugeot eight-seater station wagon, which is painted hot pink.
What happened to his mighty Monaro? Perhaps Karl finally got around to selling it:
Dr Kruszelnicki has not yet decided to sell his V8 Monaro, saying he couldn’t afford to after spending all his money switching his other car for a Toyota Prius and installing solar panels on the roof of his home.
In Dr Karl’s world, selling a car costs you money. It’s a pity his economic theories never got a chance to be tested in Canberra.