Left Union Dirt Sheets: Link Need CCC Investigation.
The Crime and Corruption Commission should investigate if the Liquor Hospitality and Miscillaneous Workers Union (LHMU) got information from the Attorney General or the Department of Justice for the Dirt Sheets revealed in The West Australian.
Politics is not for the meek. The enemies within the Unions and ALP are always more threatening than external threats. If you want to wield power in the ALP, you have to fight for it and fight to keep it. As Graeme Richardson the former NSW Right power broker once said, "Do whatever it takes".
The Desert Rat is hardly surprised that the LHMU, the biggest Left union in WA, led by Secretary Dave Kelly the key power base of Left faction controller Attorney General Jim McGinty, was circulating "Dirt Sheets" on innocent voluntary board members of an aged care home with whom it had a dispute.
Dave Kelly has been a vocal public critic of Kevin Reynolds and the CMFU; a centre union and close friend of Brian Burke. Kelly has also been a prominent public critic of Julian Grill and Brian Burke during their recent public humiliation by the CCC. Many of these similar attacks on competing factions and personalities within the ALP, is all about the internal struggle for control and power. "Dirt Sheets" are designed to discredit your opponents and strengthen your position.
What is most concerning about the LMHU "Dirt Sheets" published in "The West Australian" is one on which includes the typed note:
"(Woman's name) is a compulsive liar. I will see
what info I can get from the Attorney-General and Justice Dept."
The Crime and Corruption Commission needs to investigate if the LHMU was able to get information and favours from and or through the Attorney General or his office staff or the Justice Dept.
The CCC could easily determine, if any information has been supplied to the LHMU.
This can be done by using their power to compel the Minister and staff to answer questions under oath in a public hearing about their knowledge of the Dirt Sheets. Dave Kelly and the LHMU staff could also be questioned under oath. That is needed if the public can be satisfied there has not been an improper passing on of information about LHMU "enemies" or those of the ALP Left.
The Desert Rat challenges the CCC to investigate this matter of grave public concern.
Does the CCC have the courage to investigate those with real power?
It makes you wonder who else they have "Dirt Files" on, wasn't there a story some time ago about a West journo receiving an anonymous "Dirt File" on a now former State ALP MP which had material regarding some very personal matters. And funny how it was released when this person was under attack by the likes of those curious creatures at the CCC.
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