Who better than Joe Scimone to check your credentials comrade?
Who better than Joe Scimone to Chair the NSW ALP Credentials Committee, one of the most important "machine" committees of the NSW Labor Party. This is the Committee that determines the eligibility of members to vote in the selection of Labor parliamentary representatives.
Who better than Joe Scimone to chair the NSW Labor Party's credentials committee? The committee is one of the most important "machine" committees of the NSW Labor Party. You need people of the highest calibre and integrity to chair such committees. Who better than Joe in that position? The credentials committee oversees and approves the details of each party member's details. It checks and approves the delegates to National and State Conferences. It checks and approves the details of Young Labor credentials and generally handles all disputes about Labor Party membership, particularly as they pertain to pre-selections. In his position as Chairman Joe presided over disputes over the list of eligible voters able to vote in the Maroubra pre-selection which replaced Bob Carr with Michael Daley and several other party matters. What confidence this inspires!
Joe, of course, is a highly qualified manager. He had a $200,000 per annum position with the Maritime Services Board. He had 140 Engineering staff under his power at Wollongong City Council. He was a member of the Illawarra Health Service Board from 1986 - 1994. In his capacity as member of the Illawarra Health Service Board he convened the Shoalhaven-Illawarra Drug Summit in 1999.
Mr Scimone's many management skills are obvious to all who come into contact with him. They have been honed in the Labor Party where he has been a branch President of the Bulli branch of the Labor Party for many years and he has shown extraordinary capacities in planning the campaigns and strategy of Labor Ministers such as Joe Tripodi, David Campbell and many others.
