“It’s pinch-yourself type stuff,isn’t it?” he toldBrisbane Times.
“You couldn’t make it up. It’s just ‘out there,Jerry’,to quoteSeinfeld. It’s just bizarre and totally,wildly unexpected.”
Bradley estimated the party’s election spend “wouldn’t have been much over $10,000″,while Palmer claimed his ubiquitous campaign — the giant yellow billboards and high-rotation ads were unavoidable —cost about $70 million.
The single biggest largesse,Bradley said,was a radio commercial that aired six times on an Ipswich FM radio station in the final week of the campaign. That cost about $1000.
“It was absolute,utter grassroots stuff,” he said. “Pardon the pun.”
As for Palmer,the mining magnate did not seem fazed about having nothing to show for his huge expenditure,other than the possible election of a Victorian senator.
“You can’t put a price on liberty,” he saidearlier this week. “Governments may come and go,but freedom goes on forever.”