http://www.theage.com.au/news/NATIONAL/MP-gave-evidence-for-Williams-sidekick/

"Clearly it is something that would give cause of concern to Steve Bracks, I've got no doubt about that, and I've got absolute confidence that he will handle it correctly."

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/bracks-backs-drug-case-mp

Premier Steve Bracks is standing by a State Government MP who gave character evidence in court for a drug dealer linked to underworld serial killer Carl Williams.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/bracks-mp-backed-drug-dealer

During Foletti's bail hearing, Mr Languiller told the court he had known Foletti since the mid-1970s, when they emigrated from Uruguay, and played soccer with him in the 1980s.

love child wrote:
Jimbo Jones wrote:

Sunrra was born out of the pool issue and a suggestion by otte that the issue base be broadened

Otte had nothing to do with the birth of Sunrra.

Otte is a loser.

Corrupt at the top wrote:
Mr Languiller has been an MP since 1999 and was the parliamentary secretary for community services from 2002-06.

He was promoted to parliamentary secretary to the Premier for multicultural affairs after November's election.

Mr Languiller climbed the Labor ranks through the union movement, and was a senior adviser to disgraced former federal Labor MP Andrew Theophanous from 1996 to 1999.

There we are. Steve Bracks' own parliamentary secretary hangs around with, and gives character references for, known criminals and drug pushers.

What sort of advice do you think Steve is getting?

AS IF Telmo didnt know his mate of 30 years was running drugs BEFORE he took the stand to give him a character reference.

All the bullshit about "if I had known beforehand I would have thought more about it".

How many people dont know their 30 year old friends inside out ? Telmo is running the "if only I had known" defence and weak Steve is make believing him.

A cynic would wonder why payola wasn't involved on this one.

Here's hoping this one gets fought right out in Parliament and the media as it deserves a lot closer scrutiny.

Its STEVE and TELMO bullshit of the first order. No-one is going to buy this lemon of a story.

Telmo was paid $5,000 for that court appearance. He will say anything for money.

That's how these things are usually done if not in hard cash "payment in kind".

Gifts of cars, houses and holiday trips are the favourites, easy to hide from snooping ATO and other parties.

You should try and find out if he went on a holiday, got a new car or moved into a new premises around that time.

http://andrewlanderyou.blogspot.com/2007/03/tested-rising-star-mp-proves-his.html

Loyalty. Honour. Courage. Those are qualities shown by Telmo Languiller in this matter. That's the character we see on evidence here and the constituents of Sunshine and taxpayers of Victoria should be very proud that they are represented by such a man

I see once again that local politicians have got criminal links with local football clubs.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/NATIONAL/MP-gave-evidence-for-Williams-sidekick

During Foletti's bail hearing, Mr Languiller told the court he had known Foletti since the mid-1970s, when they emigrated from Uruguay, and played soccer with him in the 1980s.

Does anybody know which football club that was?

not just 5 grand for character evidence, but $5,000 of DRUG MONEY was paid to Telmo to say nice things about hsi criminal friend.

Seeing as these drugs are killing kids in his own electorate, its blood money that he took.

Which football club was he playing for with Foletti?

Your a disgrace Landeryou - you have no idea about politics in the west. The words 'labor star' and languiller do not deserve to be in the same sentence. labour stooge - Yes.

F*&% O$% Idiot

Landeryoou didn't post here, someone was quoting him.

Slandersyou didn't post here, someone was quoting him.

Telmo is untouchable, don't waste your time, Get real!!! He'll be the champion!! You're not accountable for him and his mates!!

He'll be there with his macho man his adviserCesareo on his side!!

in the news

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/downloadhansard/pdf/

"One never become a member of Parliament without the help and support of many people. At the risk of omitting many valuable and colleagues, I especially thank Carlos Baldovino, Theo Theophanous, Jorge Ladowsky, Luis Larrea, George Seitz, Fernando Moya, John Saunders, Cesar Piperno, Alejandro Astudillo and the Capar family for their support and friendship. I also thank my many friends in the City of Brimbank.

"I must thank Steve Conroy, Greg Sword, Marsha Thomson, Martin Fergusen, Ian Jones and Gareth Evans for believing in me. I am honoured to have their support."

Sounds like a branch stackers breakfast doesn't it?.

Telmo Languiller wrote:
http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/downloadhansard/pdf/

"One never become a member of Parliament without the help and support of many people. At the risk of omitting many valuable and colleagues, I especially thank Carlos Baldovino, Theo Theophanous, Jorge Ladowsky, Luis Larrea, George Seitz, Fernando Moya, John Saunders, Cesar Piperno, Alejandro Astudillo and the Capar family for their support and friendship. I also thank my many friends in the City of Brimbank.

"I must thank Steve Conroy, Greg Sword, Marsha Thomson, Martin Fergusen, Ian Jones and Gareth Evans for believing in me. I am honoured to have their support."

Sounds like a branch stackers breakfast doesn't it?.

the breakfast was very off.

Whats to believe in . Telmo is a bit of sht and do we want to know what he has done to be in the position that he is in.

I would be embarassed to have those names associated with mine.

Here are a few of the people on Telmo's list.

http://rexinthecity.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_rexinthecity_archive.html

Sunday, May 29, 2005

The People Strike Back.
The campaign against the stinking corruption in the ALP stepped up another notch today with the news in todays Herald Sun that charges are being laid against a member of the Powerful ALP right faction Telmo Languiller and sidekick Karen Sherlock.

This is just the start of the vital campaign to clean out the corruption led by non-aligned member Eric Derricott, and is the first in a series of charges that are expected to be made by the ALP's Disputes Tribunal.

The entrenched ALP Right, led by Senator Stephen Conroy, declared all out war at the big Labor Confab last weekend, have a point of course. They say that it�s just a power game. It�s just the Left and the non-aligned groups upset about their loss of power. There's some merit in this argument, but the Right have never been willing to confront the accusations laid against them, they don't even deny them. They just hit back saying the left are playing a dirty game, and are just as guilty.

Many proponents of the Right would have you believe that these complaints are contrived. A new thing dreamed up by the Left ever since they list power. However these accusations have been around for a long time. Even when the Left held the power. Witness this 2002 article in Crikey penned by the mysterious Delia Delegate which says:

Theo Theophanous Member for Jika Jika (an amusing title remembering that Jika Jika was once the name of a prison) and fellow branchstackers Keilor backbencher George Seitz, Sunshine MP Telmo Languiller, and failed candidate Carlos Baldovino to the faction may have increased the numbers, Network insiders believe, but they haven't added to the integrity or stability of the Victorian right. Many within the Network group believe that an attack on these former LRA members is vital to remove the cancer of branchstacking from the Victorian branch. Representations are to made to Simon Crean and several Party forums detailing the operations of the LRA, including the payment of memberships by its leadership in breach of Party rules and many other improprieties relating to fundraising.


There we see the same accusations of brabckstacking (and the same names) back in 2002. We also see the same attempts to involve the ALP leadership (Crean), but to no avail. Today the man in the hotseat is Beazley. He has been warned that this all could spiral out of control.


The move came as senior Labor sources revealed that Opposition Leader Kim Beazley had been warned by senior colleagues to deal with the branch-stacking crisis in Victoria.

Party heavyweight Bob McMullan, the member for Fraser, and frontbencher Gavan O'Connor, the member for Corio, visited Mr Beazley in March. They stressed that the Victorian situation could spiral out of control unless he took action.

If the Right won't admit their failings and come clean, then how can the people of Victoria trust them. It's a crooked corrupt organisation and everyone now knows this. We say bring it on Eric. If this tears the ALP apart in the process then it deserves to die.

(Note: Another interesting connection pops in the same Crikey article � Stephen Conroy gets an invite to Andrew Bolt's 40th Birthday � We're curious how deep the ties
between the Andrew Bolt and ALP-Right identities go)[/quote]