What a #GroomVotes journey, @SuzieHolt4Groom!
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2. Starting another #GroomVotes thread. Backstory starts here -
3. Good start for the sitting LNP MP in @the_chronicle_ exit poll on day 1 of #GroomVotes pre-polling. Please follow @GillespieTom17, who’s on the ground for the Toowoomba daily.
@SuzieHolt4Groom is third after Labor.
4. Well, well.
Suddenly LNP Garth Hamilton does the ‘delivering for our community’ thing in Pittsworth, where @SuzieHolt4Groom has strong support & will hold a forum on Inland Rail troubles tonight.
She really has shaken up #GroomVotes, the Coalition’s 2nd safest seat!
6. In Pittsworth tonight @SuzieHolt4Groom hosts an Inland Rail forum with @EVERALDATLARGE, who dreamed up the idea decades ago. He’s on a pre-poll booth for Suzie today, and a local eatery is donating $500 worth of food to sustain her volunteers.
#GroomVotes
7. Pittsworth Inland Rail forum tonight, @SuzieHolt4Groom’s special guest @EVERALDATLARGE, who had the idea decades ago.
The route a big issue for farmers. Several LNP voters ready to make the switch in #GroomVotes
#IndependentsDay
8. Only @SuzieHolt4Groom backs the agriculture industry in opposing more coal and CSG mining in the Darling Downs food bowl. Only Suzie backs enraged farmers over the Inland Rail route.
#GroomVotes
9. Big endorsement of @SuzieHolt4Groom by Toowoomba property magnate Michael McNab, a former big donor to the LNP.
“Her views are practical, she’s not a political warhorse. I’m very frustrated about party politics.”
#GroomVotes
10. The head of an establishment Toowoomba legal firm, Adair Donaldson endorses @SuzieHolt4Groom, after voting Liberal for a lifetime.
“It appears to me there is a concerted shift to the right, and I don’t think that represents Liberal values.” #GroomVotes
11. @the_chronicle_ hard copy story on two big name LNP donors endorsing @SuzieHolt4Groom in #GroomVotes
12. CORRECTION TO 11. Sorry @adairdonaldson - tweeting on the drive to Toowoomba this morning with election-fever brain my inadequate excuse. #GroomVotes.
13. The LNP, Labor and a @SuzieHolt4Groom volunteer with Suzie, at the Toowoomba City pre-poll in rain and fog late.
And a pic of me with them another LNP volunteer asked to take :)
#QUEENSLANDER
#GroomVotes #GrowingGroomTogether
14. The 4th Toowoomba Business Network candidates forum at Westbrook, on the way to Pittsworth, became a meet & greet the candidates after some refused to turn up otherwise. First ever candidates event here.
Sitting LNP MP Garth Hamilton at his first TBN event.
#GroomVotes
25. The @SuzieHolt4Groom stand at the Westbrook Hall #GroomVotes candidates event.
26. The compere at Westbrook Hall asks each candidate to say a few words, amidst which LNP MP Garth Hamilton, in dispute with a constituent, walks out. ‘I’ve had enough of this, I’m going.’
The compere: “Garth has left the building.”
#GroomVotes
27. Matt Norton, organiser of the #GroomVotes candidates event, with @SuzieHolt4Groom.
In a hung Parliament she would bring the decision back to the community after negotiations for Groom.
#IndependentsDay
28. Still processing LNP MP Hamilton’s loud walkout of the last #GroomVotes candidates do during an interaction with an anti-vaxer. The 3 female candidates gave speeches and stayed, handling anti-vaxers without incident. Unlike them Garth preferences anti-vax ON & gets theirs.
29. Endorsement video for @SuzieHolt4Groom by the former chairman of the Groom LNP, stockbroker John White, and his partner Nicole.
#GroomVotes
30. Here’s what the @AusElectoralCom is allowing inside its temporary polling place in a Toowoomba’s CBD arcade. It allows no other candidate to place any material inside. Please explain! #GroomVotes
31. @AusElectoralCom reply. -
Was Garth’s space rented before your pre-poll spot? If so, why didn’t you shift it? If no, you can’t stop the rental but you can stop the advertising, yes? Why didn’t you make it a condition of YOUR rental that no pol ads inside?
#GroomVotes
32. Another @AusElectoralCom reply. Huh? So you’re saying the shopping arcade owner can give permission for other candidates to put up campaign material inside the arcade? That’s NOT what your local officials told them. Glad you’re taking a look.
33. Dear @AusElectoralCom, could you also take a look at why you required Michael McNab to remove 2 @SuzieHolt4Groom posters from HIS building because it was close to your office way before prepoll when you did not so last election when he up posters for the LNP MP? #GroomVotes
34. Rain, floods, fog, way more candidate volunteers than voters at the #GroomVotes Toowoomba pre-poll today.
Was gunna drive home tomorrow but may be flooded in.
35. The last of 6 #GroomVotes candidates forums, at Mouse Proof Brewery, moderated by @usqedu’s Prof Peter Terry. LNP MP Garth Hamilton attended one and stormed out of the only other one he attended,on the proviso it was just meet & greet, before candidate speeches. #GroomVotes
36. Relaxed buzzy vibe at the last #GroomVotes candidates event before #ausvotes, at the Mouse Free Brewery. All candidate bar the LNP MP here - ALP, Greens, ON, UAP, Federation Party, the other indie & @SuzieHolt4Groom.
Groom’s first ever serious campaign has been a blast :)
37. 4 minute speeches, then questions at the last #GroomVotes candidates forum. Photo by Mike Spence.
38. Wonderful camaraderie & good humour between candidates & a generous crowd. Gives ya hope.
LNP MP hasn’t really participated in #GroomVotes campaign. Emails, flyers, fundraisers; one $50 a head forum. At his only meet & greet he stormed out. Guess he knows he’s safe.
39. Voters of Groom, here’s how to vote strategically whatever your political colour to ensure #GroomVotes becomes marginal and Groom’s Voice is hear loud and clear in Canberra whoever wins Govt.
Vote 1 for your ‘Voices for’ community independent @SuzieHolt4Groom!
40. The @SuzieHolt4Groom endorsement video cut by @squig_
She’ll run 15 and 30 second extracts on #GroomVotes TV next week.
Oh, and Craig Kelly is campaigning in Groom next week.
41. Today’s #transitzone pod with @SuzieHolt4Groom - she’s coming home strong at #Groomvotes. A transcript of our first interview with Suzie last July, before she agreed to stand as the @VoicesGroom #IndependentsDay candidate -nofibs.com.au/transcript-rea…
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42. Our #transitzone interview with @SuzieHolt4Groom today in Apple podcasts - see you Saturday night Suzie :)
#GroomVotes
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43. My @SatPaper essay on @SuzieHolt4Groom’s campaign for #GroomVotes is free to read till the election thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
44. The @GuardianAus take on #GroomVotes
45. LNP Senator @stoker_aj - up for re-election at #ausvotes - on a #GroomVotes pre-poll yesterday with the ‘Voices for’ community #IndependentsDay candidate @SuzieHolt4Groom.
46. @the_chronicle_ with the #GroomVotes candidates’ final pitches. Only One Nation’s candidate refused to participate - he’s swapping preferences with the sitting LNP MP.
47. @The_Chronicle reports the #GroomVotes LNP MP’s walkout of a candidates meet and greet with constituents last Thursday. @GillespieTom17 used my video - no local journos attended.
thechronicle.com.au/news/toowoomba…
48. #GroomVotes LNP MP Garth Hamilton has not been seen at pre-polls since he stormed out of a candidates meet and greet last week. @the_chronicle_ hard copy report.
49. @SuzieHolt4Groom has had to again state categorically she has no donations or any contact with @climate200 as the LNP and another independent candidate continue a whispering campaign.
#GroomVotes
50. @SuzieHolt4Groom backs the @helenhainesindi Federal Integrity Commission bill with teeth.
The LNP MP does not - he says he supports “law and order”
(!)
#GroomVotes
51. Now Fairfax papers cover #GroomVotes with #HinklerVotes & the ‘teal free’ regional Queensland #IndependentsDay candidates @SuzieHolt4Groom and @JackDempseyQLD
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62. A very last minute funding announcement by LNP MP Garth Hamilton in #GroomVotes. He hasn’t been seen at pre-polls since he stormed out of a candidates meet and greet last Thursday.
63. Every day blanket UAP ads in @the_chronicle_ & Craig Kelly visited #GroomVotes yesterday.
Last election One Nation 13% UAP 4% - UAP takes over this time I reckon. ON preference swaps with LNP, UAP preferencing indies above ALP & LNP.
74. A belated report on the #GroomVotes campaign by ABC Southern Queensland - it’s not even on Twitter!
65. The @brisbanetimes article on #GroomVotes by @CameronAtfield saw LNP volunteers at the pre-polls ordered not to converse with @SuzieHolt4Groom - pre-election skittishness I guess :)
66. Some members of @SuzieHolt4Groom’s core, all volunteer team. They helped her build a local campaign inspired by the #IndiWay on a shoestring budget of local donations The election night party will rock whatever the result in #GroomVotes :)
67. @SuzieHolt4Groom in #GroomVotes endorses @JackDempseyQLD in #HinklerVotes, her ‘not teal’ #IndependentsDay compatriot in Queensland regional seats.
68. Groom stockbroker & past chair of #GroomVotes LNP, John White - a volunteer for @SuzieHolt4Groom - blasts LNP for preferencing One Nation 2.
“The LNP should have preferenced you, Suzie Holt, as you are a class candidate with a lot to offer Groom.” (Facebook)
69. Say hi to retired veterinarian @GraemeTurner17, the volunteer coordinator in @SuzieHolt4Groom’s #IndependentsDay campaign for #GroomVotes.
One candidate complained to the @AusElectoralCom at a pre-poll that there were too many Suzie volunteers there!
70. She can’t win, can she? A very optimistic preview of @SuzieHolt4Groom’s chances in #GroomVotes by @CameronAtfield in a fab piece on Queensland seats to watch at #ausvotes
71. ABC South Queensland reporter @nathmorris on the religious history of #GroomVotes and how @SuzieHolt4Groom is disrupting the longstanding status quo after a controversial LNP preselection. Worth reading.
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