Assange loses dismally in Aussie elections. Pledges to fight on to get more attention

[struggle4progress]

09 Sep 2013 10:01
by Nick Farrell in Rome

... Assange, who is currently living in a renovated loo in the Venezuelan embassy in London, is trying to avoid being extradited to Sweden to face questioning about alleged sex offences.

Strangely Aussie voters were underwhelmed by Assange's winning personality and comedy electioneering and he failed to get enough votes to get a seat in the Victorian senate.

As an indication of how badly he did, the Wikileaks Party has little more than one percent of the vote, ironically trailing behind the "Australian Sex Party".

According to Business Insider, he lost out to the rather obscure special interest party the "Australian Motoring Enthusiasts Party" which is like losing to Tarquin Fin-tim-lim-bim-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olè-Biscuitbarrel of the Silly Party ...

http://news.techeye.net/business/assange-loses-dismally-in-aussie-elections

[NCTraveler]

1. K&R for the "Australian Motoring Enthusiasts Party" nt.

[struggle4progress]

2. Poor St Julian has lost to Ricky Moor, kangaroo poo fight champion!

... Ricky Muir has shrugged off the emergence of a home video showing him participating in a kangaroo faeces fight, saying it was ''people play''. ''My past does not represent how I am now and it has nothing to do with the party,'' Mr Muir, from the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party, told Seven News. Mr Muir's home video, which he had posted on his personal YouTube account, depicts the .. senator and his brother running around a campsite hurling kangaroo faeces and laughing hysterically ...
It was 'people play': would-be senator Ricky Muir on the kangaroo poo fight
September 9, 2013 - 5:39PM
Jonathan Swan

[KamaAina]

3. Since when did he switch embassies?

Assange, who is currently living in a renovated loo in the Venezuelan embassy in London,

[randome]

6. He may have built a tunnel.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers. It's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[treestar]

4. Very odd people the Aussies

Who wouldn't want their Senator stuck in a London Embassy of another country?

[dionysus]

5. "...who is currently living in a renovated loo..."

[msanthrope]

7. But did he vote in the election?? nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. ???!!!???

ASSange Lost? How could that possibly be?