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Liberal leadership hopeful Joe Francis parliamentary future remained in the balance last night as a newly elected Labor MP accused the defeated Barnett Government of an act of bastardry in Perths south.

Terry Healy, who easily unseated incumbent Peter Abetz in Southern River on the back of a whopping 19.5 per cent swing, said from where he was sitting it was an election on Roe 8.

It seems like an act of bastardry, to go ahead and do all the things that he did before people had a chance to say what they felt about it, Mr Healy said.

Roe 8 just reinforced how they felt about Colin Barnett and Peter Abetz.

Southern River is one of four possible Labor Party gains in Perths southern suburbs, where former TV journalist Reece Whitby picked up the newly created seat of Baldivis.

Outgoing Treasurer Mike Nahan hung on in Riverton and Dean Nalder and John McGrath retained Bateman and South Perth for the Liberals.

Incoming Labor MP Lisa OMalley, who was consistently neck and neck with Liberal Matt Taylor in pre-election polling, believed strong opposition to Roe 8 and the Perth Freight Link had helped deliver her the seat of Bicton.

She said a 121 volunteer-strong grassroots campaign enabled her campaign team to doorknock almost every home in the electorate.

That gave people the opportunity to give their view, Ms OMalley said.

The theme underlying pretty much every conversation was Roe 8 and the Freight Link and then there was those personal issues of jobs, education.

For seniors it was cost of living and (the sale of) Western Power as well.

Both Mr Taylor and Mr Abetz did not return The West Australians calls yesterday. Labors Jandakot candidate, Yaz Mubarakai, also stayed silent, opting to spend time at home with his family as he awaited a definitive result.

The seat is on a knife-edge, with Mr Mubarakai sitting on 50.07 per cent of the two-party-preferred vote with 69.4 per cent of the vote counted.

Mr Francis told The West Australian on Saturday night he was likely to be a candidate for the Liberal leadership if he held on to his seat, but that did not necessarily mean he would take on the job.

I still have to discuss it with my family. I have a two-year-old daughter, who I love dearly and I have hardly seen, he said.

Mr Mubarakai took to Facebook yesterday to thank his supporters.

We are about 30 votes ahead right now, and have a lot of counting to go, Mr Mubarakai wrote.

Thank you to everyone who helped out. Stay tuned for more updates ... count resumes tomorrow afternoon, and might stretch out a few days.

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11:05 p.m. CT March 12, 2017

Marlette should jab liberals, too

I guess its too much to ask Andy Marlette to look at the big picture.

On February 26, his oversize cartoon, in full color, depicted Uncle Sam weighed down under the financial burden of Trump traveling to FLORIDA for some WORKING weekends while staying at his own property.

How much does a Trump trip to Florida cost the taxpayer?

Andy, for eight years, you never used one drop of ink to criticize Obama taking vacations to HAWAII, where the residence had to be rented all the while Obama was golfing and visiting the beach, not working for the benefit of America.

How much did the Obama trips to Hawaii cost the taxpayer?

If you are going to criticize via cartoon, lets do it across the board. Or is it too much to ask to criticize liberal actions?

Mike Adams, Pace

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To quote an excerpt from author Michael J. Knowles new book, the main reason to vote for a Democrat is .

The above is not a typo.

Knowles tome, Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide, is 266 pages of absolutely nothing. Clean, blank, snow-white pages. And as of Thursday morning, it occupied the No. 4 slot on Amazon.com's "Best Sellers" list.

Whats really great about this book, you can go cover-to-cover in about 15, 20 seconds, Knowles told Fox & Friends on Thursday.

Billed as the most exhaustively researched and coherently argued Democrat Party apologia to date, the spoof book was Knowles' attempt to razz the party for a lack of direction. The conservative journalist released it last month and the book was listed at $9.99 on Amazon -- but you can pick up a paperback on sale for $7.08.

The project does, curiously, contain an extensivebibliography and a table of contents. But nothing else.

It took a very long time to research this book, Knowles said Thursday. Ive been observing the Democratic Party for at least 10 years now and when I observed their record and reasons to vote for them on reasons of economics or foreign policy or homeland security or civil rights and so on I realized it was probably best to just leave all the pages blank.

A chapter on civil rights? Blank. Values? Nothing there.

When I started researching the book and going through this exhaustive study process, at first I turned to the 2012 Democratic National Convention, and it turned out they were deciding whether or not to include God in their party platform, Knowles said. And the Democrats booed God. Thats not good. So I decided probably if Im going to make a good case to vote for Democrats, probably just leave that chapter blank.

Or maybe the pages are just supposed to be filled with the thoughts in the reader's head? John Cage would like that.

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During the hour-long meeting, sources said Trump chastised the groups -- including Club for Growth, the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks and the Tea Party Patriots -- for calling the House GOP proposal "Obamacare lite," warning the tea party activists, "you are helping the other side."

In true Trump fashion, the President jumped into salesman mode, sources at the meeting said.

"This is going to be great. You're going to make it even greater," the President told the group. "I'm going to work hard to get it done."

The meeting between Trump and the conservative leaders also included White House senior advisers Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, Kellyanne Conway and Marc Short, as well as other top West Wing staff.

Sources at the meeting said White House aides showed some openness to one aspect of the House GOP plan that has become an irritant to tea party aligned groups: the provision that pushes back an overhaul of the expansion Obamacare Medicaid funding until 2020.

The conservative groups at the meeting asked that the date be moved up to January 1, 2018. White House aides said they were "open to discussing" it, sources said.

Concerns were also raised about the tax credits in the House GOP plan which allow lower-income Americans to buy health insurance, financial assistance that tea party groups see as subsidies.

"They counter-punched hard on that," a source at the meeting said of the White House response.

Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney, a former member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, gave an impassioned defense of the tax credits, a display that surprised attendees from the conservative groups.

"He was very defensive about it," one attendee said about Mulvaney.

Confident that the health care plan will pass the House, Trump laid out his strategy for winning passage in the Senate, telling the meeting he will campaign heavily in red states featuring vulnerable Democrats up for re-election.

"Trump said he will have football stadium events in states where he won by 10-12 points and he is going to dare people to vote against him," a source at the meeting said.

As for prominent Republican opponents of the health care plan, Trump sounded optimistic.

On Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the President was effusive about his one-time primary rival.

"I love him. He's a friend. He's going to end up voting for it," the President told the group.

A source at the meeting was astonished as to how White House staff could have been so blindsided by the initial conservative opposition to the GOP plan.

"We telegraphed it for weeks," one tea party official at the meeting said.

A WH official at the meeting said: "It was a legit policy meeting -- real discussion about specifics."

"The president expressed that he was open to things that could improve the bill, but was also clear that this is the vehicle -- this is the chance to repeal and replace."

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Democrats' Line of Attack on Gorsuch: No Friend of the Little Guy New York Times The Democrats' approach also appears to be in keeping with the preference of some lawmakers to make the nomination as much a referendum on Mr. Trump as Judge Gorsuch, with ready parallels to the president's history as a profit-seeking boss and serial ... and more »

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