DESPITE a disaster at the last State election the Labor Party says it’s not yet grooming somebody to run for the State seat of Goulburn in 2015.
President of the Labor Party Branch at Goulburn, Roger Lucas, says the Labor Party is well aware it became “complacent” during the last campaign.
“Four years is a long time. One is already gone, yes, but there’s still three years to go,” he said.
“Apparently people aren’t happy with the way things have been going (with the Liberal party) lately.
“But at the moment we’re one year in, there’s plenty of time for us to develop a profile, and re-establish ourselves, again.”
According to Mr Lucas the ALP will have a number of new policies to bring to the floor and will make the current MP, Pru Goward, accountable for her decisions to date.
“You’ve only got to look at 700 disabled kids standing at bus stops to wonder if the Coalition understands what they’re for - whether to save money or to help kids,” he said.
“We are interested to know what they have to say for themselves and what they have to say to the community.”
He was not prepared to comment on any possible candidates or whether they would be from the Goulburn district.
He was able to tell the Post there’s wind of a possible independent candidate preparing for the 2015 election.
However, the Post was unable to receive advice on this.
At the 2011 State election ALP ran an absentee candidate for the seat of Goulburn.
It was not until four weeks out from the rally that Labor announced its representative as Crystal Validakis, a political science student, from Sydney.
The 20-something year old was subject to much conjecture by the community for not setting one foot in Goulburn during the time of her campaign.
But she was able to secure 14.7 per cent of the first preference vote, beating out the Greens and Independent candidates.
On a two party preferred basis she secured 23.4 per cent of vote or a total of 9312 votes.
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