Mark Textor: the white knight on his shiny unicorn etc

[biker jk]

I read in the SMH yesterday that Malcolm Fraser has called for him to sacked as the provider of polling information to the Liberal Party.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke.

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Was he caught with his pants down?

[Mulger bill]

I read in the SMH yesterday that Malcolm Fraser has called for him to sacked as the provider of polling information to the Liberal Party.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke.

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Stage two under way...

[jimsheedy]

The word on the street (thanks to BastardSheep) is that Mark Textor's Twitter account has been deleted. I get the feeling some serious spanking has been going on. Now the big question is what will Amy Gillet Foundation do?

Andrew

Spanking ? You can bet Christopher would be lining up for that job

[Baldy]

The account still exists it just looks like its been wiped?

Well except for one tweet "what tweets".

So contrite...

[Aushiker]

The account still exists it just looks like its been wiped?

Well except for one tweet "what tweets".

So contrite...

There are a few new Mark Textor accounts now; they have been created after his actual account was closed; these are parody accounts.

Andrew

[trailgumby]

Well if those the AGF "...lobby want the reassurance that comes from credibility" ... what does he propose, now that he has none?

#onyerbike MarkATextor. Do the AGF a big favour and resign

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[Baldy]

The account still exists it just looks like its been wiped?

Well except for one tweet "what tweets".

So contrite...

There are a few new Mark Textor accounts now; they have been created after his actual account was closed; these are parody accounts.

Andrew

Ah gotcha, cheers Andrew.

[The 2nd Womble]

No change as of 10.30pm tonight.

I'm betting he's a gonner though. If he doesn't get his orders or quit, I can guarantee the AGF will suffer for it. I for one have suffered because of this clown for over a year.
When Time magazine does this (and it's been confirmed as bona fide) then the rot is really starting to smell.

[biker jk]

Just beat his time around Centennial Park.

[trailgumby]

Has anyone looked closely at his bio on the AGF website? Bullet point two:

The Australian Financial Review also named Mark as one of the 10 most powerful people in Australia in 2007. He was the youngest figure honoured in both the BRW and the AFR lists in 2000 and 2002.

What kind of git allows someone to put that on their bio, even if it is (was) true? Classic case of getting carried away by your own publicity.

Has anyone noticed the similarities to another power junkie, one Alan Jones?

[The 2nd Womble]

[The 2nd Womble]

Is Mark Textor the testicle that Lance Armstrong had removed that improved his cycling future? I think Australian cycling advocacy should perform a simple lump check at home or see a GP.
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[g-boaf]

You've won:

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He has decided to stop his utterly juvenile rants and quit Twitter.

[The 2nd Womble]

No, this is due to his racist attitude towards the Indonesians. I'll claim victory when he loses his big seat at the AGF boardroom table. Till then I'll keep winding the thumb screws.
That there has been no public action taken on this yet by anyone involved in cycling advocacy says to me that on the whole we are as apethetic to our plight as the journalists who constabtly berate us and politicians who are easily capable of ignoring us.
Two nations are still squabbling over Mark tonight, but the same man's involvement in cycling advocacy hasn't raised an eyebrow outside of here, my tweets and the Sydney Cyclist forum?
The guy who runs cycle.org.au actually wants me to pull my head out of my arse over this. If I did that I'd lose sight of him. I guess it's not just Mark who crawled off to where it's dark warm and damp.

[trailgumby]

No, this is due to his racist attitude towards the Indonesians. I'll claim victory when he loses his big seat at the AGF boardroom table. Till then I'll keep winding the thumb screws.
That there has been no public action taken on this yet by anyone involved in cycling advocacy says to me that on the whole we are as apethetic to our plight as the journalists who constabtly berate us and politicians who are easily capable of ignoring us.
Two nations are still squabbling over Mark tonight, but the same man's involvement in cycling advocacy hasn't raised an eyebrow outside of here, my tweets and the Sydney Cyclist forum?
The guy who runs cycle.org.au actually wants me to pull my head out of my arse over this. If I did that I'd lose sight of him. I guess it's not just Mark who crawled off to where it's dark warm and damp.

Didn;t know they existed until you mentioned it. As of October last year they had a whole 172 members. No forum activity since, that I can tell.

Hotbed of discontent, that place is.

[The 2nd Womble]

No, this is due to his racist attitude towards the Indonesians. I'll claim victory when he loses his big seat at the AGF boardroom table. Till then I'll keep winding the thumb screws.
That there has been no public action taken on this yet by anyone involved in cycling advocacy says to me that on the whole we are as apethetic to our plight as the journalists who constabtly berate us and politicians who are easily capable of ignoring us.
Two nations are still squabbling over Mark tonight, but the same man's involvement in cycling advocacy hasn't raised an eyebrow outside of here, my tweets and the Sydney Cyclist forum?
The guy who runs cycle.org.au actually wants me to pull my head out of my arse over this. If I did that I'd lose sight of him. I guess it's not just Mark who crawled off to where it's dark warm and damp.

Didn;t know they existed until you mentioned it. As of October last year they had a whole 172 members. No forum activity since, that I can tell.

Hotbed of discontent, that place is.

They run a fb page and a Twitter account as well, but the vitriol directed my way is from the head honcho's personal account.

[The 2nd Womble]

Make no mistake, those who seek to shut out or shut down SCA will be called to order, whether that be the world's best known pollster or a nobody with a chip on his shoulder. It could get ugly. The AGF isn't my focus. Mark Textor is.

[Aushiker]

Didn;t know they existed until you mentioned it. As of October last year they had a whole 172 members. No forum activity since, that I can tell.

Same here. Didn't know they are on Twitter either. Do you have thier Twitter user details Dave?

Andrew

[The 2nd Womble]

Facebook: search cycle.org.au
Twitter: search AusCycle.
The vindictive petty crap comes from th personal account of the owner of both of these pages though. That garbage was shown to a forum member on here just before.

[Aushiker]

Twitter: search AusCycle.

Got it. Already following and should have put two and two together.

Thanks
Andrew

[g-boaf]

No, this is due to his racist attitude towards the Indonesians. I'll claim victory when he loses his big seat at the AGF boardroom table. Till then I'll keep winding the thumb screws.
That there has been no public action taken on this yet by anyone involved in cycling advocacy says to me that on the whole we are as apethetic to our plight as the journalists who constabtly berate us and politicians who are easily capable of ignoring us.
Two nations are still squabbling over Mark tonight, but the same man's involvement in cycling advocacy hasn't raised an eyebrow outside of here, my tweets and the Sydney Cyclist forum?
The guy who runs cycle.org.au actually wants me to pull my head out of my arse over this. If I did that I'd lose sight of him. I guess it's not just Mark who crawled off to where it's dark warm and damp.

Didn;t know they existed until you mentioned it. As of October last year they had a whole 172 members. No forum activity since, that I can tell.

Hotbed of discontent, that place is.

I didn't even know that place existed either. But then I'm lazy and just ride my bike.

Keep fighting him.

[trailgumby]

Personally, unless they are engaged in direct attack against you I think it's better to ignore them and carry on. Know what they're saying, but don't waste your time and mental energy engaging.

Otherwise, you get absorbed in fighting them and neglect your main mission. And thus, they win.

I'd also lose the rough language. Don;t underestimate the importance of this. It is *vital* to keep strictly to the high moral ground. Let your opponents paint themselves as ratbags.

I've seen this work very much to our advantage against the loony left greenies in our dealings with National Parks over trail access. NP prefers to talk to us because we treat them with respect (even though we disagree frequently), the Greenies get grudging attention in order to make them go away as quickly as possible.

[sogood]

Stupid. What else can one say? Career in the pits now, rightly so.

[jules21]

these guys get to where they are (or were) by taking risks and bending rules, then when it inevitably leads to their downfall everyone asks 'how could they be so stupid?'

[g-boaf]

I'd also lose the rough language. Don;t underestimate the importance of this. It is *vital* to keep strictly to the high moral ground.

I've seen this work very much to our advantage against the loony left greenies in our dealings with National Parks over trail access.

Hmm... You could just refer to them by normal name without embellishments or derogatory terms, which I suppose is *vital* to keep the high moral ground, as you suggested yourself just above.

Stupid. What else can one say? Career in the pits now, rightly so.

Unless you've heard more than I have, I suppose he will just be doing the Alan Jones (the radio broadcaster, not the F1 driver) trick. Make a crocodile tears apology, keep a low profile for 3-4 weeks and then he'll be back again.