The more I observe this Somyurek affair, the more I’m convinced that there are wheels within wheels that both the political establishment and @theage are concealing from Victorian voters. Somyurek is trash and good riddance, but how did it happen ?
My guess is a sting - set up by elements of the Victorian ALP to record Somyurek’s crookedness. The recordings were professionally done, in the office of a federal Labor MP. But who organised them ? And why ? Presumably his factional enemies in the party. And good on ‘em. But...
Was Dan Andrews aware of it ? Who knows ? But I suspect he was. So - and I’m surmising - here was a sophisticated, high-stakes, internal plot to rid the party of the Somyurek branch-stacking cancer.
And so @theage got the inside running. Not the clumsy, propagandist dickheads of the Murdoch Herald Sun or, worse, the fuckwits at The Australian.
In the end, it’s a good thing. A plus for democracy. And very exciting for the chattering classes of politicians and journalists. But, there are far, far bigger issues to contemplate : the gross corruption of the federal government and its ministers for starters.
