[CM] Rookie Gold Coast LNP MP Verity Barton's outrageous views posted online

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Rookie Gold Coast LNP MP Verity Barton's outrageous views posted online

By Darrell Giles
From: The Sunday Mail (Qld)
July 29, 2012 6:57AM

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/news/rookie-gold-coast-lnp-mp-posts-wild-views-online/story-fncvfxcm-1226437754463#ixzz223iFr0jd

ROOKIE Broadwater MP Verity Barton has lambasted rail passengers as "icky", called on welfare payments to be stopped for single parents and couples with children, and said Prime Minister Julia Gillard and former leader Kevin Rudd should stop breathing.
Ms Barton, third-choice LNP candidate for the Gold Coast seat, also said she did not believe in climate change, wanted WorkChoices brought back and described some voters as bogans.

Ms Barton's outrageous views have been posted on her Facebook page.

The 26-year-old beat Labor's four-term veteran Peta-Kaye Croft in the state election in March.

Ms Barton, the state's youngest female in Parliament, got the nod to contest the high-profile seat for the LNP after one candidate resigned when he was caught drink-driving and the replacement candidate was dumped after photos emerged of him taking part in a swingers' club event.

Political sources last week revealed Ms Barton's Facebook offerings, some dating to 2009 and her pre-MP days as a shop assistant and Broadwater's LNP state electorate council chair.

They included:

* Sounds like you (a friend) encounter icky QR passengers often.

* I don't even believe climate change exists.

* Welfare for parents (single or coupled) just shouldn't exist. If you fall pregnant you've got nine months to save/budget.

* Is Craig Emerson (Federal Minister for Trade) drinking? Or is he always just such a d---head?

* If certain people want to reduce carbon emissions they should discourage flatulence and breathing by certain people (Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Penny Wong).

* Do not listen to the bogan when it says it doesn't care about politics, for it is lying to you.

Ms Barton and Premier Campbell Newman declined to comment.

http://www.news.com.au/news/rookie-gold-coast-lnp-mp-posts-wild-views-online/story-fncvfxcm-1226437754463

Note she and her mother were welfare recipients for many years...

She also campaigned to have the T2 lanes removed from Brisbane Road/Frank Street in Labrador.

These comments are from many moons ago, but she has been truly copping it on her Facebook page - some deservedly, some not so.

[colinw]

Speaking of "icky QR passengers", I wonder if the malodorous biological hazard I used to refer to as "The Altandi Garlic Man" still rides the rails.  Once he sat next to me and the fumes of garlic (from those health capsules?) was so nauseating I had to get up and move before I lost my breakfast.

Note to rookie MPs - if you have anything ill advised on your Facebook account or any other public location, it WILL come out!

[somebody]

Looks like it didn't come out during the campaign though.  It's a bit pointless now and it will be forgotten next time around I expect.

[Gazza]

With the latest job cuts Im sure there will be a few more on welfare #JUSSAYIN.