Thread by @margokingston1

Here comes @SuzieHolt4Groom!

An explosive report in Toowoomba’s @the_chronicle resets the #GroomVotes campaign, suggesting a big chunk of LNP and Labor voters have switched their support to her.

Will Garth Hamilton still boycott tonight’s candidates forum in Highfield?

2. For the @SuzieHolt4Groom #GroomVotes campaign backstory, my long thread. Starting a new one :)

3. #GroomVotes voters, you can question @SuzieHolt4Groom at tonight’s Toowoomba Busienss Network candidates forum. The sitting LNP has refused to attend - his one and only candidates forum was last night.

#IndependentsDay

4. Farmers at Brymaroo, an hours drive west of Toowoomba, will host @SuzieHolt4Groom tomorrow. All welcome.

LNP defectors to the ‘Voices for’ community #IndependentsDay candidate coming from conservative farmers and liberal progressives.

#GroomVotes

5. 2nd boycott of Toowoomba Biz Network candidates forum series, tonight at a bowling club. These are ONLY forums save last night’s $50 a head do.

LNP MP, Labor, other indie won’t come to any - @SuzieHolt4Groom is with ON, UAP & Australian Federation Party.

#GroomVotes

6. Joint boycott reason: TBN president supports @SuzieHolt4Groom so the forums are biased. Format - short speeches then open mike for audience questions.

Crowd told others ‘unable to attend’.

Groans by the big workers crowd. One shouts: “Thanks for showing up!”

#GroomVotes

7. After speeches, another audience member yells ‘Name and shame ‘em” (the absent candidates).

? on preferences.

ON: head office decided, stresses pref who you like.
UAP: Majors need to be last.
@SuzieHolt4Groom - no prefs.
AFP: Indies before LNP, ALP, Greens.
#GroomVotes

8. #GroomVotes One Nation prefs LNP MP Garth Hamilton and he puts ON’s Grant Abraham 2 on his HTV.

Explains why Grant told last night’s forum head office had decided his HTV card but to pref as they liked (see 7).

Wow.

Good news for @SuzieHolt4Groom’s push for Lib voters.

9. Welcome back to Twitter @the_chronicle - first tweet since August last year. Could you use #GroomVotes - Twitter’s news feed for the campaign.

10. Out west in #GroomVotes - farming and Oakey families invited by beef farmer Frank Ashman to hear from @suzieholt4groom. The Darling Downs food bowl is the foundation of Groom’s wealth, several guests desperate to make Groom marginal.

11. Brymaroo graziet Frank Ashman hosted a neigbours and friends event for @SuzieHolt4Groom then lunch and chat. With his Mustang and the plane he built (!)

#GroomVotes

12 @SuzieHolt4Groom Brymaroo event photos by her volunteer campaign photographer Michael Spence. Manyfighting so so long to stop more coal & #csg mining on the Darling Downs food bowl. Others, undecided, came along to meet Suzie.

#GroomVotes

14. Latest @suzie4holt video by
a Tweep, @IH8SHOKJOKS. Thanks! #GroomVotes

15. The Toowoomba @The_Chronicle coverage of f Thursday’s Chamber of Commerce #GroomVotes candidates forum.

Plus summary of @SuzieHolt4Groom’s opener - more photos and speech summaries online-

thechronicle.com.au/news/toowoomba…