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June 09, 2006
JOE Tripodi has pledged $1500 to buy back an effigy of himself as a Krispy Kreme doughnut salesman in a bid to avoid ridicule.
The Ports Minister is said to have been anxious about the prospect of the effigy reappearing at tomorrow's NSW ALP state conference.
Left-wing foes produced the life-sized figure at last year's Labor love-in to humiliate the Right's powerbroker.
Mr Tripodi has been haunted by the cardboard cut-out ever since it appeared in Sydney Town Hall at Labor conference last June.
The Daily Telegraph has now learned from ALP sources that Mr Tripodi paid $1500 this week to buy it back from Unions NSW boss John Robertson.
The money will go to the unions campaign fund to fight the Federal Government's workplace laws.
Since it was first produced, the cardboard Tripodi appears to have increased in value by 200 per cent.
Mr Robertson stole the Tripodi II from Left-wing ALP officials last June -- later paying $500 for it.
He even took it down to the nearby Covent Garden hotel for a drink after the annual conference dinner. The pair subsequently formed a close bond.
The Fairfield MP earned the mockery of colleagues when it was alleged during an ICAC inquiry into the Orange Grove shopping centre affair that he was partial to Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
The NSW ALP conference will be the last before the state election in March next year.
The Daily Telegraph
June 09, 2006
JOE Tripodi has pledged $1500 to buy back an effigy of himself as a Krispy Kreme doughnut salesman in a bid to avoid ridicule.
The Ports Minister is said to have been anxious about the prospect of the effigy reappearing at tomorrow's NSW ALP state conference.
Left-wing foes produced the life-sized figure at last year's Labor love-in to humiliate the Right's powerbroker.
Mr Tripodi has been haunted by the cardboard cut-out ever since it appeared in Sydney Town Hall at Labor conference last June.
The Daily Telegraph has now learned from ALP sources that Mr Tripodi paid $1500 this week to buy it back from Unions NSW boss John Robertson.
The money will go to the unions campaign fund to fight the Federal Government's workplace laws.
Since it was first produced, the cardboard Tripodi appears to have increased in value by 200 per cent.
Mr Robertson stole the Tripodi II from Left-wing ALP officials last June -- later paying $500 for it.
He even took it down to the nearby Covent Garden hotel for a drink after the annual conference dinner. The pair subsequently formed a close bond.
The Fairfield MP earned the mockery of colleagues when it was alleged during an ICAC inquiry into the Orange Grove shopping centre affair that he was partial to Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
The NSW ALP conference will be the last before the state election in March next year.
The Daily Telegraph