{"id":641,"date":"2009-06-18T21:23:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T10:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=641"},"modified":"2009-06-19T08:15:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T21:15:39","slug":"and-a-nervous-titter-ran-through-the-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"…and a nervous titter ran through the crowd…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Lib staffer resigns over alleged sex harassment<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

June 18, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n

A Liberal opposition staffer has resigned over the alleged sexual harassment of several women at a social function in Canberra on Wednesday night.<\/em><\/p>\n

Anthony Scrinis, an electorate officer working for Liberal Sophie Mirabella who is opposition spokeswoman for women<\/strong> <\/em>(emphasis mine. -weez)<\/span>,? handed in his resignation late on Thursday, according to Ms Mirabella.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr Scrinis allegedly grabbed the breasts of two women on the dance floor while at the Midwinter Ball at Parliament House on Wednesday night, media reported.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is alleged he also approached four other women during the evening asking to fondle their breasts.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s understood one of the women whose breasts were grabbed is a senior adviser to a cabinet minister who left the dance floor in tears.<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the women had lodged an official complaint about Mr Scrinis’ behaviour, it was reported.<\/em><\/p>\n

One woman who observed Mr Scrinis’ behaviour at the ball said he appeared to be under the weather.<\/em><\/p>\n

“He appeared to be drunk and was approaching various women on the dance floor,” the woman, who did not want to be named, told AAP.<\/em><\/p>\n

“He was pretty sleazy and kept trying it on, he wouldn’t go away.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr Scrinis seems to be an arsehole even when he’s sober. Scrinis was a candidate for Port Phillip council<\/a> who believes there’s more harm to be done by enacting carbon-neutral council policies than by doing nothing; apparently his property value trumps global warming, which Scrinis believes is a furphy:<\/p>\n

Doomsday is not coming from man-made climate change. Climate Change is a beautiful natural process, which has always occured <\/em>[sic] on Earth.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Does this guy hang out with Fielding?<\/p>\n

Scrinis is also a sore loser<\/a> who failed to enroll to vote for his entire adult life- until he wanted to be a candidate.<\/p>\n

I have enrolled to vote for the first time in my life, because this is the most critical policy judgement for us and our children. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Scrinis also volunteers:<\/p>\n

I am truly independent and not a member of any political party.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…except when he’s working as a staffer for Liberal politicians.<\/p>\n

By-election or not, I don’t think Scrinis could be elected dogcatcher after his boob job at the knees-up.<\/p>\n

Go the Liberals. Cement that irrelevance, baby.<\/p>\n

-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lib staffer resigns over alleged sex harassment June 18, 2009 A Liberal opposition staffer has resigned over the alleged sexual harassment of several women at a social function in Canberra on Wednesday night. Anthony Scrinis, an electorate officer working for Liberal Sophie Mirabella who is opposition spokeswoman for women (emphasis mine. -weez),? handed in his […]<\/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-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","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=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}