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February 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Liberal National Party leader Campbell Newman may be regretting his decision not to seek a safe seat.
Speculation about what will happen if he doesn’t win Ashgrove at next month’s Queensland election is overshadowing his campaign.
He was compelled to deny reports on Sunday that he will force a by-election in a safe seat if he fails to get the 7.1 per cent swing he needs in the inner Brisbane seat.
Mr Newman told reporters in Brisbane he had no plans to contest any seat other than Ashgrove.
“It is completely and totally untrue,” he said about the report in the Sunday Mail.
“I can totally and unequivocally rule out going for any other seat.”
That gave Premier Anna Bligh another opportunity to ask who would be leading an LNP government if that party got the 4.6 per cent swing needed to win the election, but Mr Newman fell short of his 7.1 per cent.
That’s a question that will hang over him until polling day on March 24.
Ms Bligh, on the other hand, is optimistic that Labor’s federal leadership problems won’t be distracting voters from her campaign after Monday’s ballot in Canberra.
By Tuesday, Ms Bligh hopes Queensland’s attention will focus once more on the state election – and Campbell Newman’s problems.
Once the federal leadership battle was over, she told reporters, “you can expect to see me redouble my efforts because it has increased my determination not only to be out talking to Queenslanders about what Labor stands for, but to be putting Campbell Newman under the spotlight”.
When the premier addressed the Labor faithful at Thuringowa in Townsville on Sunday, she launched a spirited attack on Mr Newman, questioning his financial dealings, particularly investments and sources of income for a company of which he is director, Ultrex Consulting Services.
She denied she was mudslinging.
“There is nothing wrong with legitimate questions about Mr Newman’s financial dealings,” she said.
Mr Newman sought to divert attention from the LNP leadership question by revealing the party’s new graffiti policy.
He promised $2 million a year for four years to help local councils clean up graffiti, saying it was part of the LNP’s Safer Streets Crime Action Plan.
“Graffiti is a scourge, graffiti is vandalism,” he said.
“As lord mayor of Brisbane I was tough on graffiti. If I become premier of this state I’ll become tough on people who commit graffiti crimes.” Meanwhile, the Broadwater saga opened a new chapter, with Ron Clarke announcing he would contest the marginal Gold Coast seat as an independent,
The Olympic medallist, now the Gold Coast mayor, adds further interest to the seat where the LNP has been plagued by unwanted publicity over its disendorsement of one candidate for drink-driving and another for visiting a swingers’ club four years ago.
And the Sex Party got into the act by saying the revelation of the sex club visit would actually have improved the chances of Cameron Caldwell, if only he hadn’t campaigned as an evangelical Christian.
Mr Newman was unmoved, telling reporters Mr Caldwell did not adhere to the standards the party set for its candidates.
“We want all our MPs to be held in the highest esteem by the public, because people have lost faith in this current Labor government,” he said.
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