Federal election - K Rudd candidate for Maranoa resigns - 'you're No 1 on my hit list' ...

Excerpt from Sunday Telegraph:

Labor forces union 'thug' to quit

21 October 2007

Labor campaign headquarters forced the candidate for the Queensland seat of Maranoa, Shane Guley, to quit after allegations he acted as a union thug, assaulting one of his managers and routinely intimidating co-workers.
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Mr Guley is a former AMWU delegate who held a number of union positions and worked for Queensland Rail at the Rockhampton Railway Workshops. It's now been revealed that, in 2001, he was sacked after years of persistent violent behaviour that included:

- Assaulting a manager in a pub in front of several work colleagues;

- Making a threatening phone call to the same manager, saying: "I will f****** get rid of you, you're No 1 on my hit list ..."

- Threatening to call in his political connections in the Queensland Labor government to get rid of people on his "hit list";

- Threatening and intimidating a work colleague who had made allegations against him of bullying and harassment;

- Intimidating investigators brought in to investigate employee complaints against him, and;

- Allegedly making vexatious and vindictive allegations against other employees in response to their legitimate complaints.

Following two Queensland Rail investigations confirming Mr Guley's repeated bullying and threatening behaviour, he made an unfair dismissal claim to the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission. The QIRC upheld his claim on a due process technicality but found he had engaged in repeated bullying and intimidation of co-workers.
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See - Rudd's stellar candidates.

Sounds like a cross between some of the people in the Beattie/Bligh Cabinet and some of the people in the Toowoomba City Council ...