Any person working in advertising and marketing will tell you with confidence that nobody uses the expression ‘to the max’ any more. Correction: Not only will one person in advertising tell you that, but they will use it themselves when quoted in a newspaper. It brings down any confidence that the ALP candidate for Gilmore, Neil Reilly, is more in touch than the incumbent of eleven years, Joanna Gash.
In the front page story of the local paper, the South Coast Register, they talked about how Joanna Gash had put an anti-nuclear power petition on her website, and in the interests of balance, a pro-nuclear petition as well. Neil Reilly said she was “indecisive to the max”. Even the independent candidate quoted in the paper who changed his name by deed poll to ‘None of the Above’ sounded more credible.
Reilly also conceded in the article that Gash had her finger on the pulse and knew every pothole in her electorate.
His ALP biography page talks of Reilly’s history in the advertising industry, his two years in the army and his support for Meals on Wheels. It neglects to mention the long history he has in amateur acting, including a number of starring roles in the Arts Theatre in Cronulla. It’s all well and good to keep some things about a candidate quiet, but there’s not much point if the amateur theatre webpages found on Google outnumber all the others.
It would take an annihilation of today’s AC Nielsen poll’s proportions (57-43) to put Reilly into Gilmore, but with what seems to be a dud candidate, it might not be so.
Is this the best candidate the ALP can field in a seat occupied by Labor as recently as 1996?
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