vote for him at your...

vote for him at your peril......

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/14/2872759.htm?site=thedrum

But a transcript of that interview reveals the full extent to which Brumby was prepared to attack Rudd's jugular.

He said, quoting Rudd: "... if you don't do things the way I tell you, I am going to take money off you."

Neil Mitchell: "What are the implications of that? Sick people suffer?"

Brumby: "Well the implications of that is that Victorians won't be signing up to a deal because it would be bad for our state; and because we haven't signed up, he would make things even worse."

Mitchell: "Wouldn't that mean sick people would suffer?"

Brumby: "Yeah, and I..."

Mitchell: "Sorry, is that yes?"

Brumby: "Yes it would."

Mitchell: "But that's obscene."

Brumby: "Yeah ... I would be very surprised if that's what the PM really meant and there are a lot of things said in the bluster of debate."

But not any of that. It was calculated and considered. The Victorian Premier was suggesting that Kevin Rudd plays his politics so hard, that he is prepared to make conditions for sick people even worse to get his own way.