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February 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The dumping of another Liberal National Party candidate in a Gold Coast seat has overshadowed the end of the party’s first week of official campaigning.
LNP leader Campbell Newman hit the hustings with wife Lisa in the key Brisbane seat of Ashgrove yesterday to announce a $4 million program of community grants.
However, he spent most of his time defending the party’s decision to dump lawyer Cameron Caldwell from the seat of Broadwater on Friday.
Mr Caldwell says he was asked to resign over a visit to a Gold Coast swingers’ club three or four years ago.
He says he visited the swingers’ club, Utopia, briefly for one drink with his wife and nothing more.
The previous LNP candidate for Broadwater, Richard Towson, resigned in January when he was caught drink-driving.
Mr Newman refused to reveal why Mr Caldwell was dumped, simply saying his behaviour was not in line with LNP standards.
”We’ve set a high bar and I don’t want my team not living up to the standards that we’ve set,” he said.
The LNP leader said he had never visited a swingers’ club and he didn’t think it was appropriate behaviour for any MP.
He refused to concede that two disendorsements had hurt the LNP’s chances of wresting Broadwater from Labor’s Peta-Kaye Croft, who holds it by a narrow margin. ”I think the electorate can be very happy that the LNP under my leadership is saying, ‘That’s the standard, it’s a high bar’ and that we will require people to live up to those expectations,” he said.
Mr Caldwell’s disendorsement overshadowed the LNP leader’s promise to spend $4 million on community grants over three years if elected.
Mr Newman said the grants of $15,000 and $5000 could be used by volunteer groups and societies to buy equipment. The smaller grants filled a gap in the state government’s current funding programs, he said.
”It’s a commitment to the people who are actually the social glue who bind us together for a better Queensland,” he said.
Mr Newman made the pledge at a community hall in the electorate of Ashgrove with gathered members of a local historical society.
He must win the seat if he’s to become premier on March 24.
The announcement was almost overshadowed by an angry society member who took aim at reporters for questioning Mr Newman over Mr Caldwell’s dumping.
The man launched a tirade at gathered media, demanding they let Mr Newman talk about his policy or ”shut up and go home”. AAP
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