McGinty Agenda entrenches ALP control

The Puppet and the Puppeteer

The Desert Rat thinks it is now becoming clear that Alan Carpenter’s dream team of ALP candidates for the State election, is in fact, the choice of McGinty, the real power behind the "figurehead leader".

For a while the Desert Rat thought Carpenter was taking on Jim McGinty; naively trying to assert his own "authority". This would have resulted in the demise of Carpenter as McGinty would have the numbers on the State Executive to butcher any Carpenter’s agenda and destroy him in the process.

McGinty has now come out in support of Reece Whitby, a landlord, housing speculator and part-time Kerry Stokes employee at Channel 7. Tellingly, this open support from Jim McGinty came after New Right faction leader Michelle Roberts had the temerity to publicly support the right of John D’Orazio to contest ALP preselection for Morley.

McGinty wants the New Right faction’s John D’Orazio shut out of the ALP and ALP pre-selection.

McGinty has now declared he fully supports Reece Whitby as the next Labor candidate for Morley. The likes of Reece Whitby, and Alan Carpenter, will be at the mercy of McGinty because they will never have any personal power base within the ALP.

This all adds credence to Alan Carpenter being the puppet who is just publicaly running McGinty’s preselection agenda. Left faction candidates and Left captured candidates such as housing speculators like Reece Whitby will get the safe seats at the expense of the Centre and Right factions candidates, now that their power base has been undermined by the incompetent and nefarious activities of the Corruption and Crime Commission.

Whitby and Carpenter will never have any power base in the ALP because they have been parachuted in, and so will be beholden to McGinty the Socialist Left.