League CEO Gillon McLachlan has denied Sam Newman’s claim AFL execs are “political whores” for publicly joining the ‘Yes’ campaign for same-sex marriage.
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“(Sam) will represent a number of views, I’m sure about that. I don’t think they’re the majority,” McLachlan told 3AW on Friday.
“I don’t believe we’re grandstanding, I don’t believe we are political whores, I believe that on this issue, which we believe is discriminatory, we are obliged… as an organisation to say what we think, not lecture people… make a discreet statement then get back to the footy.”
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On Thursday night’s AFL Footy Show, Newman unleashed on the league for publicly joining the Yes campaign.
“What right have you got to say what people should be doing?
“You are nothing more than obsequious, fawning, sycophantic political whores.
“You have no right to get involved in political messages.
“Let people go to the football and do what they want to do: just watch the game.”
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