GetUp

[catsnknots]

Many of us on the Conservative side of politics often complained that GetUp was an ALP funded initiative to manipulate the young people into voting for the left... 

we were laughed at and told that we were making up stories.... 

Well.. the truth always pops up... 

Simon Sheikh was a Labor Party member at the time he was appointed national director of self-described "independent" advocacy group GetUp! in September 2008.

He got huge amounts  in funding and often supported ALP or attacked the LNP... it was often said that GetUp was one sided and not independent and when those claims were made it was shot down as a conspiracy theory by those on the right... 

He was a Labor Party Member... simple... he was politically aligned and so is GetUp... 

[lakeland27]

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Mr Dastyari said yesterday: "Simon first joined the Labor Party on 2 April, 2004, and terminated his membership, via contacting the ALP office, on 26 November, 2008.

"Simon was a financial member for the duration of that period, with a brief period of being unfinancial, when his credit card details were rejected in late 2005."

thats One year.. 2004, until 2005.

[azureline**]

Proof? I didn't ask for proof......I am interested...

and thanks rabbit, his father was Indian born......

[catsnknots]

Sorry.. had to go out.. 

the thing is that everyone was saying that he was not connected to the Labor Party in any way.. 

LL for one told me I was telling lies when I said he was a member of the Labor Party.. 

Facts are now out that he was a member of the Labor party... 

Now he is aligned with the Greens... 

he had an agenda and GetUp was NOT independent... 

[catsnknots]

[catsnknots]

hm.. too big.. if you open the pic up in a new tab you can read it in full.. on my laptop it seems that part of the picture is missing when you view it in the thread. 

[i-need-a-martini]

I am confused. ?:|

Isn't it common knowledge he was a member of the Labor Party? He has never denied that.

Didn't we already have this discussion on the last thread on the man.

And what has that got to do with his appointment at GetUp? There is no conflict of interest as far as I can see.

That's like saying Tony Abbott is a member of the Catholic Church. So he can't be a politician because this will affect his ability to lead.

[freakiness]

Poisonous little toad. Now he's deleted twits & lied till he's black in the face saying he wasn't a Labor member.

The Greens are welcome to him.

Wow, first time I've heard black faces are caused by telling lies. If they didn't lie would they have pink faces and black bodies?

[lakeland27]

Sorry.. had to go out.. 

the thing is that everyone was saying that he was not connected to the Labor Party in any way.. 

LL for one told me I was telling lies when I said he was a member of the Labor Party.. 

Facts are now out that he was a member of the Labor party... 

Now he is aligned with the Greens... 

he had an agenda and GetUp was NOT independent... 

he hasn't been a membar since 2005, so when you said he was (well after 2005) he was not.

[freakiness]

Sorry.. had to go out.. 

the thing is that everyone was saying that he was not connected to the Labor Party in any way.. 

LL for one told me I was telling lies when I said he was a member of the Labor Party.. 

Facts are now out that he was a member of the Labor party... 

Now he is aligned with the Greens... 

he had an agenda and GetUp was NOT independent... 

Brendan Nelson was a member of the Labor Party, are you going in for the kill on him too?

Who are these everyones you speak of?

That's a mighty strange conclusion you have reached by claiming that Getup is not independent just because one of it's founders was a Labor member in the past.

[izabsmiling]

I've never heard anyone say someone lied til they were black in the face ?

What is the thinking behind that kind of comment ?