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October 3rd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Gary ‘Angry’ Anderson campaigns against the carbon tax. Photo: Jonathan Carroll
The Nationals say rock singer Gary “Angry” Anderson will have to go through the same processes as any other candidate to be preselected for a federal seat.
The 63-year-old Rose Tattoo frontman has joined The Nationals in the past week and is considering a tilt at federal parliament.
Anderson led anti-carbon tax rallies in Sydney and Canberra this year.
He appeared in a Liberal Party advertisement in August last year that accused Prime Minister Julia Gillard of falsely claiming she would deliver the Parramatta-to-Epping railway line in western Sydney.
Anderson also has written on his personal website that the carbon tax is part of a global conspiracy.
Nationals federal director Brad Henderson said today that there was still some time before preselections were opened, but Anderson would have to undergo the same checks by the party’s state head office as any other candidate.
He said it would then be up to the preselection committee to decide whether he was the right candidate.
Mr Henderson did not have any comment on how good a candidate Anderson would be.
“It’s up to the preselectors to determine it,” he said.
Labor backbencher Andrew Leigh said his party was delighted that Anderson was planning to throw his hat in the ring for the party, which was home to the likes of outspoken former Coalition finance spokesman Senator Barnaby Joyce.
“This is a man who’s going to be running for The Nationals on a plank of New World Order and I think somebody who will finally make Barnaby Joyce, with his confusion of millions and billions, look sane,” Dr Leigh told Sky News.
But Anderson’s decision was defended by Liberal backbencher Jamie Briggs.
“If Angry runs for a seat and he wins it then that would be fantastic,” he said, adding that people in parliament came from a variety of backgrounds.
“Angry’s obviously passionately against the carbon tax, he’s passionately against a prime minister who told a lie before the last election and there are many, many thousands of Australians out there who are.”
Senator Joyce jokingly wrote in a Twitter message: “Tried to get Angry to change his name to Assertively Agitated Anderson but no luck so here comes Angry.”
Anderson said at the weekend he grew up in a family of Labor supporters but the party had lost its soul.
He said The Nationals had not offered him a seat, but he was ready to run.
Anderson will likely be a thorn in the side of the government as it works on poker machine reforms.
In 2009, Anderson and his band signed a deal with poker-machine company Aristocrat to produce out a Rose Tattoo themed machine which plays their music and features Anderson’s face.
AAP
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