. . . is he the new Australian Rob Ford? I wish I could find the link from yesterday that I was reading/listening to. The newscasters were a hoot. So what gives with this guy? Paraphrasing: "He was found lying prostrate on the ground, mumbling obscenities into his cellular phone, after falling off a window box." Of course it was punctuated by some hilarious lingua franca and Australian catch phrases thrown in. ttps://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/extraordinary-barnaby-joyce-found-lying-on-ground-swearing-after-drinks-in-canberra/video/a089a8ebb4b270a0a2e88d1c87379124 ‘Extraordinary’: Barnaby Joyce found lying on ground swearing after drinks in Canberra February 11, 2024 - 8:47AM Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell discusses footage of the “extraordinary incident” in Canberra which shows Barnaby Joyce lying on the ground while mumbling obscenities into his phone. The former deputy prime minister reportedly fell off a planter box after he attended functions where alcohol was served at Parliament House on Wednesday night. “I understand the Nationals Leader David Littleproud telephoned Barnaby Joyce on Friday to see what had happened,” Mr Clennell said. “I contacted the former deputy prime minister for his side of the story yesterday. “He said he didn’t want to talk about it or what conversations he might have had with his leader.” Asking our resident Aussies to chime in here.
Barnaby represents the national party or formally the country party . It is a conservative party and represents people from outside the cities . Barnaby himself is a character . Exhibit a In February 2018, he resigned his ministerial and leadership roles after acknowledging that he was in a relationship and expecting a child with a former staffe think he has a drinking problem
Probably one of our country's most hilarious claims to fame was Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry. Just a taste . . . In September 1991, Marion Barry was sentenced to six months in prison for possession of crack cocaine. After serving his sentence, Barry, claiming to have overcome his “personal adversities,” reentered D.C. politics. He was elected to the city council before once again winning the mayoral election in 1994 for an unprecedented fourth term. In 1997, Barry, often accused of corruption, was stripped of much of his power by Congress, which passed legislation to end “home rule” in the District, returning the city to the pre-1974 system of administration by federal-appointed commissioners. In January 1999, Barry retired and was succeeded by Anthony Williams as mayor of the nation’s capital. However, Barry entered politics again when he ran for the Ward 8 City Council seat and won with 96% of the vote in November 2004. He died in 2014. The best part was that when he was arrested he had bricks of money in his freezer and was all, "Who put that there? Who be planting money in my freezer?"
