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PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN
Unpopular pugilist Stephen Mayne gets punted by People Power:
Party board members voted unanimously last night to expel Mayne.
“This decision represents a clean break by People Power from any association with Crikey! and Stephen Mayne, and a rejection by the party of the undergraduate, not-quite-grown-up, let’s-sit-on-the-fence-and-throw-stones view of the world with which Stephen is associated,” People Power president Vern Hughes said.
He said the parting had been bitter, with Mayne fighting to maintain his role as director …
[Mayne] said he had spent $35,000 bankrolling People Power and any attempt to expel him showed a lack of gratitude.
More on this comical matter from Piers Akerman.
I fixed the link. For some reason the url had smart quotes instead of standard quotation marks, which screwed up the link.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 01 07 at 09:21 PM • permalinkUpdate: both links fixed.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 01 07 at 09:22 PM • permalinkthose people power bullies will only have themselves to blame when they feel the wrath of Mayne’s mummy!
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 07 at 09:23 PM • permalinkThanks Andrea.
People Power would seem a strange choice for Mayne anyway. With which political party would the fearless Mayne be better suited? Brittle and sanctimonious, I reckon the Greens.
Or indeed he could give the whole gadfly gig away and get into some serious bag training in preparation to turning pro boxer?
He said the parting had been bitter, with Mayne fighting to maintain his role as director …
Hmmm. The rope-a-dope has had more auspicious exponents.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 07 at 09:39 PM • permalink[Mayne] said he had spent $35,000 bankrolling People Power and any attempt to expel him showed a lack of gratitude.
Oh, I’m sure they’re grateful for the money; it’s just that having to put up with Mayne constantly shaking his rattle and throwing his bowl of oatmeal on the floor got to be so annoying that no amount of money was worth the headache.
Maybe he should launch a hostile takeover of Webdiary- it’s the perfect platform, a financial sinkhole and political albatros. Sounds right up his alley.
And what sort of a loser do you have to be to get arseholed from a dead loss like People Power? Bit like being shunted from the roll of Green Left Weekley street vendors.
Mayne may wish to change his SCUMBAG OF THE YEAR nominations now. I just love the irony here.
Posted by curious george on 2007 01 07 at 10:07 PM • permalink$35,000 for 1603 votes? Even a Kennedy couldn’t get elected at those prices.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 07 at 10:15 PM • permalink#14 - They’re obviously tourists. The locals would give him gonorrhea and a healing crystal.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 07 at 10:22 PM • permalinkJonathanH @ #14:
It depends on what he calls “middle aged”. To a 16 year old, anyone 25 & up is old.Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2007 01 07 at 10:37 PM • permalinkPerhaps he can sue them in Margo’s People’s Court?
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 01 07 at 11:06 PM • permalink#14 JonathanH: Sounds like your boy could have a great career in the sales division of one of Paco Enterprises’ many fine subsidiaries. Let’s see now, I’ll just check recent employment openings . . . ah, here’s one! Honest Paco’s Used Packard Sales - “wanted: young go-getter with proven track record of moving seasoned inventory to seasoned consumers; people-friendly salesman whose dazzling smile can distract prospective purchasers from the occasional patch of Bondo on the fenders. Excellent commissions, health plan and 401K.” And this is just one of scores of opportunities! Remember our Human Resources motto: “Life is a roulette wheel; come and be one of our croupiers!”
Hell, SCD, when I was 16, 20 was old and 25 was near dead.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 01 08 at 12:00 AM • permalinkPaco (offering):
Excellent commissions, health plan and 401KJonathan H (accepting):
If he could sell used Packards in Byron Bay he’d be worth 401K.ROFL. Some-one catch Paco - suspected heart attack!
Any yes, selling used Packards is more interesting that Stephen Mayne.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2007 01 08 at 01:23 AM • permalink#24 strange… in Piers’ blog people too started to get off topic on his Mayne article… Crickey!
Posted by CanberraNeoCon on 2007 01 08 at 01:34 AM • permalink#11 - I don’t see why. Two wankers don’t make a… a… a non-wanker.
If we all got drunk and assualted those with whom we disagreed, on national television, no less… well we’d probably get offered our own series on Channel Ten. Provided we were prepared to do it naked.
There was a point there somewhere…
JonathanH -
If he could sell used Packards in Byron Bay he’d be worth 401K.
Jonathan, a 401K is a shorthand term for a Section 401(k) retirement plan, section 401(k) being the law in the US Federal Code in which the law can be found. It basically allows a person to contribute a portion of their salary or wages tax free to their retirement plan and for the employer to match it, tax free.
I can’t be sure but I think paco was offering to match it. But then again, maybe he was offering $401,000. It sounds like a potential contract offering.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 08 at 06:51 AM • permalink”[Mayne] said he had spent $35,000 bankrolling People Power and any attempt to expel him showed a lack of gratitude.”
Reminds me of the Woody Allen line - ‘I formed a corporation this year and I’m the President. My mother is the Vice President, my father the Secretary, my grandmother the Treasurer, my uncle is on the Board of Directors and they got together the first week and tried to squeeze me out.’
Re. JonathanH’s son, are you certain you folks aren’t thinking of Popular Australian Gigolo Operators instead? You must have heard of them with their catchy buzz phrase, “PAGO: one letter difference is the g-spot!”
And I thought Soylent Green® was people food and ‘people power’ was using 24 people chained to a car to drag it around in an effort to be carbon neutral.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 08 at 10:57 AM • permalink‘It’s those middle-aged women, Dad,’ he tells me. ‘I smile at them nicely and fuss over them, and they give me money.’
“I want to be a producer…”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 08 at 09:22 PM • permalink
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