Victoria’s Liberal party campaign director has been outed as an anti-Semite for calling a Liberal candidate a “greedy f***ing jew.”
And as a complete dumbass for invoking the “some of my best friends are Jewish” defense.
The Victorian Liberal campaign director who sent an anti-Semitic email to a colleague has quit her job and apologised for her remark.
State president David Kemp said Susan Chandler was given the option of quitting or being sacked.
Chandler had described a candidate in an email as a “greedy f***ing jew”.
In the latest shot fired in an internal party war that has the Liberals reeling, an email, forwarded from campaign officer John Osborn, shows Ms Chandler making the reference to Liberal Party candidate Adam Held.
In a statement, Ms Chandler said she has many Jewish friends and is not anti-Semitic.
She said her comments were completely out of character, and made on the spur of the moment during a difficult period of the election campaign.
The anti-Semitic remark follows a request from Mr Held for more election campaign pamphlets in October last year.
You can see the email exchange that led to her “completely out of character”, “spur of the moment” comment made “during a difficult period of the election campaign” below.
From: Adam Held
Sent: Friday, 19 October 2007
To: John Osborn
Cc: Susan Chandler
Subject: more flyers, please…
John,
We intend letterboxing with the “Liberals’ strong economic team” DL in Melbourne Ports this weekend. With around 10,000, that’s a good start!
We intend doing the same each weekend from now on, subject to availability. Will we be able to get another 10,000 of the “70% Union officials” DL from last night, if there are some left over?
Adam
Staffer John Osborn replies to both Mr Held and Ms Chandler.
From: John Osborn
Sent: Friday, 19 October 2007
To: Adam Held
Cc: Susan Chandler
Subject: RE: more flyers, please…
There are none left Adam, however I will let you know if any more common material becomes available.
Regards,
John
Ms Chandler allegedly replies to Mr Osborn, behind Mr Held’s back.
From: Susan Chandler
Sent: Friday, 19 October 2007 11.21am
To: John Osborn
Subject: RE: more flyers, please…
greedy f***ing jew
Source: AAP
