A PHOTOGRAPH taken of LNP candidate Cameron Caldwell dressed as a pirate at a swingers party has resulted in the second disendorsement of a Tory candidate in a month.
Senior Liberal sources last night predicted Mayor Ron Clarke, who is expected to stand as an independent, will gather enough votes from older residents in the electorate to defeat Labor’s sitting MP Peta-Kaye Croft.
“We’re stuffed. It’s game over for us,” an LNP source told the Bulletin.
LNP state director Michael O’Dwyer yesterday announced the party had disendorsed the 32-year-old Hope Island solicitor following a complaint by an unnamed person about his behaviour.
Mr Caldwell had been a party member for only two days before he replaced Richard Towson, who resigned after being caught for drink driving in January.
The Bulletin has learned a person had made a complaint about Mr Caldwell to party chiefs in Sydney. Photographs obtained by the Bulletin show Mr Caldwell, nicknamed “Can Do Cam” and his wife Caralee on board the Pirates on the Broadwater cruise in September, 2010.
Until it was closed down due to public complaints, the Burleigh-based Utopia swingers club hosted parties for up to 30 people each Friday and Saturday night from 8pm to 3am, where members could visit a “dungeon” and a “wild room”.
Mr Caldwell denied he went to Utopia on four occasions, saying it was only once.
In a statement last night, Mr Caldwell said he and his wife had attended Utopia nightclub on one occasion only approximately three or four years ago.
“At no stage was there any impropriety whilst there. We had a social drink and then we left,” he said.
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