FORMER Horsham resident Carl Sudholz is again trying to encourage Mallee residents to vote for someone else.
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The Greens supporter created a quirky video during the 2014 state election, which urged people not to vote Nationals.
Mr Sudholz has now made a second video for the federal election and released it on Facebook on Friday.
The video, called ‘Loyalty has no leverage’ is filmed at different Wimmera and Mallee locations and Mr Sudholz sings about making Mallee a marginal seat.
“People told me I should do another video and I came up with a good idea,” he said.
”Voters need to realise we are in a safe seat and we have no political leverage.
“When you don’t have political leverage you don’t get anything – that’s the message I wanted to get across.”
Mr Sudholz said Member for Mallee Andrew Broad took credit for government money that was spent in the region.
“However, all the money we have received would have happened regardless of who the Nationals member was,” he said,
“Things like money for blackspots and hospitals were normal government stuff that we would have received anyway.
“We miss out on a lot of other funding.
“We should not vote Nationals because we always have, or because our family always has – that makes politicians lazy.
“In this election, don't be loyal, be informed.”
Mr Sudholz said the size of the electorate meant it should get a billion dollars in funding.
“But we aren’t getting anything near that,” he said.
He made the video because he wanted the message to be fun and enjoyable.
“I’m trying to encourage people in the Mallee to be less apathetic,” he said.
Mr Sudholz said his video for the state election had a positive effect.
“In the state election, the swing away from the Nationals was about two to three per cent, which I think was related to my video,” he said.
“Ideally, if we could reduce the Nationals margin to below 20 per cent, that would be a win for me.
“I like to take on big challenges and there are few bigger than trying to swing the safest seat in Australia.
”Hopefully this video has an effect.”
Mr Sudholz now lives in Canberra for work.
“I was lucky with timing for the video, I had a break from work and was driving back to Horsham so I filmed a lot of it on the way,” he said.
“Then I spent a full day travelling around.
“I’m from the Wimmera and all my family are there – the only reason I left was for work.
“I still love the area and want to be involved.”