Broosta, I've had the misfortune of sitting in on two meetings with Sophie Mirabella and local farmers as well as having her trying to bully me into moving a campaign poster at a polling booth so that only the hundreds she had on display could be seen [my preferred candidate only had ONE poster on display and Sophie was cranky any space at all had been left for another candidate].
Sadly for Sophie, too many people in Indi have experienced the bombastic, rambunctious side to which you referred. It's in that context that her recent self-indulgent on-air diatribe against Cathy McGowan will only have exacerbated community perceptions.