Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005...9:27 pm

Howard v Costello: Fight!

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If Peter Cos­tello had the guts to chal­lenge, which he doesn’t, this is how the Fed­eral Par­lia­ment­ary Lib­er­als would vote:

Howard Camp Cos­tello Camp
  1. Howard, The Hon John, Mem­ber for Bennelong
  2. Abbott, The Hon Tony, Mem­ber for Warringah
  3. Downer, The Hon Alex­an­der, Mem­ber for Mayo
  4. Cad­man, The Hon Alan, Mem­ber for Mitchell
  5. Entsch, The Hon War­ren, Mem­ber for Leichhardt
  6. John­son, Mr Michael, Mem­ber for Ryan
  7. Lind­say, Mr Peter, Mem­ber for Herbert
  8. Somlyay, The Hon Alex­an­der, Mem­ber for Fairfax
  9. Thompson, Mr Cameron, Mem­ber for Blair
  1. Cos­tello, The Hon Peter, Mem­ber for Higgins
  2. Baird, The Hon Bruce, Mem­ber for Cook
  3. Brandis, George, Sen­ator for Queensland
  4. Ciobo, Mr Steven, Mem­ber for Moncrieff
  5. Fifield, Mitch, Sen­ator for Victoria
  6. Mason, Brett, Sen­ator for Queensland
  7. Payne, Mar­ise, Sen­ator for New South Wales
  8. Pyne, The Hon Chris­topher, Mem­ber for Sturt
  9. Schultz, Mr Alby, Mem­ber for Hume
  10. Slip­per, The Hon Peter, Mem­ber for Fisher
  11. South­cott, Dr Andrew, Mem­ber for Boothby
  • Def­in­ite Supporter
  • Likely Sup­porter

These are the only MPs who have pub­licly com­men­ted on the lead­er­ship imbroglio now or in the past (as far as I’m aware). I may try and work out who would vote for who based on their fac­tional allign­ments in the Lib­eral party if I’m able to dig such inform­a­tion up. How­ever on the sur­face it looks like Cos­tello has only around 10 core sup­port­ers with per­haps another 10 peri­pheral sup­port­ers mak­ing a bloc of about 20 MPs. On July 1, the Lib­er­als will com­mand a pres­ence of 111 in the Fed­eral Par­lia­ment (75 HoR, 36 Sen­ate). 20 is not enough to win obvi­ously, but then that may be part of any chal­lenge strategy.Kin­sey dvdrip

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