David Bartlett has shot himself in the foot and it is sad that he could not perform to the level of his own aspirations. He engages well with the electorate, he has a grasp of the issues,and he is very articulate. His big downfall though is common amongst politicians in Tasmania.He could not control the agenda. He is not pro active, in fact the opposite is true and one need not ponder the number of reactionary political stunts this tired party has tried to flog to a mistrusting public.

He fucked up the integrity commisssion, the water and sewerage,land tax and allowed health to struggle along without reform. The land tax issue showed that Labor has no economic idea about the real world. All they could see was dollars returning to treasurery in an economic downturn. He couldn't control the bureacuracy or bluff artist ministers like Aird who is an economic moron .

Add Gunns to their literny of mismanagement, add in the Police corruption scandal plus the several others and the Labor party looks pretty pathetic all round. David Bartlett came out of a support base in Moonah and then turned his back on the very solid working folks that developed his political career. The Northern suburbs ,Labors heartland have long memories and love nothing better than to punish uppity big heads. Bartlett literally stepped out of Moonah and into the top political job. Suddenly the trappings and the power and prestige saw him pontificating and immersed in the slimy business of party political hidden agendas.

Will Hodgman  has not been controversial,he has not had to do too much at all. After all he does have a secret weapon working on his election campaign....David Bartlett.

Besides that I am pissed off at him for ratting his promise to establish dedicated child development centres to oversee the difficulties of  development  for many Tasmanian children...