I agree under normal instances however Antonio takes very nasty and personal swipes at a number of people so in a way it is poetic justice of sorts.

Also you have to remember that this Antonio guy is using this forum to take ‘gratuitous swipes’ at people who have routed him time and time again within various organisations whether it be at Uni or where the real big boys play and I would take them as defamatory.

After investigating (and having meet the little bug on a couple of occassions), I found out this guy is not respected, feared or listened to by anyone in politics - essential if you are to be a commentator in politics.

He left politics because of lack of credability. You only have to look at his comments to see this.
For example, some of his predictions:
“Jamboree - won’t fall margin too great” oops
“Ennogera - Safe as houses (for Labor)” oops
“Central - Safe as houses (for Labor)” came down to 100 votes - oops again
“Wynnum Manly - very close” yeah, if you call 3500 vote margin out of 20,000 votes close
“Wishart - very close” the margin was 25%
“Tennyson - very close” the margin was close to 30%

The comment he made on Parer was also of interest. Having met Parer during our uni days, his work ethic was very sound, and is quite a bright and approachable bloke. I started following his ward when he appeared in the paper regardng his signs. I then found out Flessers work ethic is actually hopeless (not Parers - I actually met up with Parer to offer a hand during the campaign, believe me, he wasn’t bludging), and Parer has also managed to claw back the margin from 33% to 3%. Hmmm, so why did Anonio attack Parer?? Apparently something to do with Uni days.
If I were you Anonio, I’d give up politics. When you don’t have it, don’t pretend to have it!

But possibly the key with what now seems to be Councillor Wines is that I am told that he is a local- grew up around there and went to school around there so it is ironic that you write that Dart went over the local branches choice!

As I said I have no idea of funding for Krista Adams, especially who is funding her etc. I would be horrified if I was as you claim them to be “a local Southside Business” and someone such as yourself who claims not to be in the party and hence should not know who has donated what to ANY campaign period! has such knowledge- that would be very disturbing indeed. So in short I cannot agree or disagree with you on who funded her campaign as I was not a part of it in anyway that would allow me to know these things and if you are NOT a member as you claim then neither should you!

As for gambling- lets put that down to ideological differences- I see it as a conflict of interest- an ethical viewpoint so to speak
Other mistakes- there are some more- lets see if you can spot them- I know you can- certain statements you made seem to be a ’slip of the keyboard’ so to speak
However, overall the elections were a great success for Campbell Newman and his “Cando team”. Some of the races are very close and it looks like while Hinchcliffe will hold on that Andrew Wines will pull off an amazing win in a very tight race. I also did not realise he was only 25! WOW- what a great result (if he wins) for young people as a whole and them having a true youthful voice in this great Democracy of ours- (also looking at a few sites and Matthew Bourke seems to be in the 25-30 age group as well!)

Krista Adams campaign was well-funded by certain non-Santo business people on the Southside, is there any disagreement here?

And I disagree with you, people that want to make fairly serious predictions about the result of elections should put their money where their mouth is! It adds to credibility and your wallet - if you are right that is!

Glaring errors- I would have hoped you would have picked up yourself- example- Kevin Parer is not the Libs Prez’s son at all- investigate this!

I claim that what you have to say is based on an aura of ‘insider’ knowledge, you are trying to make yourself out as some Liberal Party powerbroker or something- look at your posts in #22. An example- “but the Libs candidate is formidable as well with strong funding behind her.” How would you know this? Does this not give the impression that you have insider knowledge as funding for candidates is kept to the campaign team and within that usually only Senior positions and not widely spread around- politics 101 young Padawan- no campaign goes around telling anyone how much is actually being spent.

Do I have insider knowledge- it would seem my sources are better than yours lmao but no insider knowledge that I would gamble money on, I am smart enough to know you don’t gamble on elections and as I said there were some upsets nobody picked but- the swing was on mate, everyone knew in the last week that wards were going to go with CanDo- was even in the papers and online news stories
Do I know you? The answer is only by reputation so to have a personal problem with you would require me to meet you- something I am not interested in doing sorry!

I think claiming that you know the resources of various campaigns and how a vast majority of candidates are conducting their campaigning reeks of a claim about ‘insider’ knowledge and is misleading to the poor people reading this thread about elections so a correction as to what you know is very relevant to this is it not?

First you claimed I had made “glaring errors”, now you claim I had nothing valuable to say and the result was an entirely predictable foregone conclusion. Obviously you have some personal problem with me that really has nothing to do with discussing council election results - ie. the topic of this thread!

David S, I think it’s actually you that’s hinting at insider aspirations. Regardless of which, I hope you put down some money on the result based on your expert sources!

“Feel free to point out any errors in what I wrote David S!”

For someone who claims to have such inside knowledge of the Liberal Party and its inner workings as the result showed you were a fair way off my friend, something that could only have been pointed out after the election which I’m sure you could appreciate seeing as you ‘recieve’ such “Top Secret” and sensitive information from various powerbrokers lmao.

Reality is that if you recieved the information you claim to do your predictions and insights would have been very different- there was only two real surprises in the council elections and aside from that the rest was well known to appropriate people (on both sides of the game)well before the day.

Props to all the people here who were tipping it.

Ok now watch me get it totally wrong on Saturday night!

Good prediction, Antonio!

“Macgregor (New ward: Approx. Liberal 9.0%): Safe as houses. Paul Norton can tell you many stories about Jacques Develder from his time on the Griffith Uni student council.”

Just like we could tell many stories about you Antonio out at Griffith and at UQ lol

Seems that Antonio is a bit out of touch overall with his ‘Liberal’ insights and they way things work- a few glaring errors in what you write Antonio

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Three are the seats the Greens are targetting and the other 2 are Enoggera and Richlands.