McGinty to vacate Fremantle seat for son-in-law?

McGinty has wasted ALP majority and goodwill in Fremantle

The Desert Rat predicts that time-serving, lame-duck failed Labor leader Jim McGinty will vacate the seat of Fremantle before he completes his current term. McGinty vote in Fremantle collapsed to 38% in the recent state election.

An added factor of the urgency to vacate is the failure of son-in-law Tim Kucera and his opportunistic cabal to takeover the CFMEU. Young Tim needs another sinecure. Kucera's mates were were soundly beaten in the recent ballot by Kevin Reynolds and his team.

The Desert Rat predicts that once the succession of Tim Kucera is locked in, McGinty will resign and Tim Kucera will be the ALP candidate for the Fremantle by-election. The only spanner in the works is that McGinty may think that Fremantle is no longer a safe enough seat for he son-in-law. That view is more a reflection of McGinty's neglect of the Fremantle electorate since elected. Any half-competent member should be able to establish a comfortable ALP majority in Fremantle.

Contrast McGinty's pathetic electoral performance in Fremantle with that of Julian Grill who increased the ALP vote in the strong conservative area of Esperance from 12% to about 50% over two elections whilst a Minister. Since Grill's retirement, the Labor vote in Esperance has dropped back to about 11%.

The same Left faction shambles happened in Kalgoorlie where the left faction member Megan Anwyl managed to lose the seat after wasting the large majority built up by hard-working local member Ian Taylor. Now the Labor vote in Kalgoorlie; once the "jewel in the crown" of Labor is below 20%. Now wonder the left only want safe seats in Parliament.

Fremantle deserves better than "His Irrelevance" McGinty and the sooner he resigns or is shown the door by the ALP, the better.