{"id":387,"date":"2007-03-08T07:52:11","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T21:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2007-03-08T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T23:39:23","slug":"nsw-libs-putting-rich-folks-back-in-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"NSW Libs: Putting rich folks back in front"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/manbed-billboard-spoof_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" title=\"rich folk need luv too\" alt=\"rich folk need luv too\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/manbed_billboard_spoof_re_agents.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The completely hapless NSW Liberal leader has shown his true colours.<\/p>\n<p>First, Manbed parades some &#8216;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/economy\/red-faces-for-libs-as-battlers-turn-out-to-be-gentry\/2007\/02\/28\/1172338711760.html\">struggling Mom &#038; Pop investment property owners&#8217;<\/a> to the media, first said to own <strong><em>ONLY FIVE<\/em><\/strong> rental properties (<em>only?!<\/em>), but later found to be real-estate agents- who actually own EIGHT rental properties&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then a friend of a Debs staffer, a former real estate agent, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/mediawatch\/transcripts\/s1857681.htm\">posed as a frustrated renter<\/a> for Channel Nine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Elissa Kracjer: My ex is an adviser to (NSW Premier) Morris Iemma and one of my friends who is a (Peter) Debnam staffer thought it would be a funny way to get back at him if I came out on the Liberal&#8217;s side?(Opposition leader) Peter Debnam was making a statement or announcement on it that afternoon or evening so they staged a lot of things for me to say to go with it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>? Media Watch&#8217;s interview with Elissa Kracjer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, that really <em><strong>was<\/strong><\/em> funny, Elissa. Hilarious, in fact&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>OK, now we know <em>who<\/em> your friends are, Debs&#8230; and we know <em>where<\/em> they are, too; on the big end of town.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The completely hapless NSW Liberal leader has shown his true colours. First, Manbed parades some &#8216;struggling Mom &#038; Pop investment property owners&#8217; to the media, first said to own ONLY FIVE rental properties (only?!), but later found to be real-estate agents- who actually own EIGHT rental properties&#8230; Then a friend of a Debs staffer, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}