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A new Australian political party has been announced today. The Stooge Party was organised by Richard Wadd of the Party Preference Stooge Association. "We usually run candidates in wards for cash, or for friends, with the sole purpose of directing preferences away from other candidates" said a jubilant Mr Wadd at a press conference this morning.

"Our clients are almost exclusively right-wing, and we take pride in our retardation of the democratic process. It is time, time for the stooges to announce themselves as the perversity and travesty of fair suffrage that we are. For too long have we hidden behind the facade of each being "independant." We are in negotiations to have our names struck-out when printed/displayed in any electoral roll or HTV, with (Stooge) written beside it. I think this is important, because on occasion we have been unfortunate enough to have actually won seats. It is always unintentional, and very awkward."

Tête de Fesses is the Liberal Party's chief staffer in their Local Issue Association for (mis)Representation, an arm involved solely with sprouting Liberal Party stooge groups that pretend to be a spontanious community action collective against the most prominant particular issue at hand (with titles such as [Council name] Reform Coalition, [Council name] Ratepayers Association, Concerned Citizens of [Council name] against [Particular issue], etc.)

"We here at the Liberal Party would be outraged, if they had officially bankrolled their campaigns over the years. Which they haven't done. Haven't done officially, I mean."