With a current candidate's offensive social media posts coming to light, and a former candidate hitting back at criticism, the Liberals have spent a week talking about themselves.
Momentum is something political campaigns crave; it boosts the overall energy among staff and volunteers, and can even sharpen a candidate's performance.used a Facebook pseudonym to share controversial postsPrior to that, the Liberal campaign had been going reasonably well on any objective measure.
It put the voters' attention squarely back on her Achilles' heel — the more conservative members of her team.Speaking to Stateline, Canberra Liberals Leader Elizabeth Lee says her party has a serious chance of ending nearly a quarter of a century in the political wilderness at this October's territory election.
Chief Minister Andrew Barr jumped on it, declaring the conservatism in the Liberals was "endemic" and bubbled below the surface "every single day". Elizabeth Lee took several questions, though careful not to go into too much detail, and emerged looking proactive in removing someone from the party who was accused of various forms of misconduct., and accuse the party of selectively editing a piece of CCTV footage to imply she was behaving aggressively towards a Liberal Party staffer.
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