Nick Dametto calls out David Crisafulli for voting card saying to put KAP last, after showing LNP ‘good faith’

“Not the smartest move from one Italian to another given you may have to ask a favour very soon to form minority government to become Premier” says Nick Dametto to David Crisafulli after seeing the LNP’s how-to-vote cards.

KAP deputy leader Nick Dametto has taken inspiration from The Godfather in a very Italian battle against former Ingham boy David Crisafulli. Image digitally altered.

Hinchinbrook MP and Katters Australian Party deputy leader Nick Dametto has thrown a Godfather-esque barb at LNP leader David Crisafulli over his how-to-vote card.

The how-to-vote card urges voters in Ingham — where David Crisafulli is also from — to put Labor and the KAP last.

It shows Crisafulli and LNP Hinchinbrook candidate Annette Swaine stating their points of ‘change’, ‘tough on crime’ and ‘the right plan for Queensland’, while showing ‘more of the same’, ‘not serious on crime’ and risks four more years of Steven Miles and Labor’ next to Dametto and Miles’ pictures.

Nick Dametto has called out David Crisafulli for the LNP's how to vote card that was sent out in Ingham.

Nick Dametto has called out David Crisafulli for the LNP’s how to vote card that was sent out in Ingham.

Mr Dametto posted the pictures of the card, which had been written on by his nephew, and called it “bad form”.

Posting on his candidate Facebook page on Thursday morning, Mr Dametto called out the card, which has been distributed to Ingham residents, as “propaganda” and that it was “not the smartest move from one Italian to another given you may have to ask a favour very soon to form minority government to become Premier”.

Mr Dametto recently announced that the KAP would pick the LNP over Labor in preferences.

In the comments of his post Mr Dametto said election cards like this “might fly on the Gold Coast” but not in North Queensland.

“All this after I decided to give his team our preferences on our how to vote card,” he said.

“This will come back to haunt him.”

Mr Dametto called the move “very short sighted”, saying “Ingham people don’t do Ingham people like that”.

“Telling his home town that his LNP candidate who lives an hour North (Innisfail) of the electorate is a clear choice over the local MP who’s worked his arse off for the last 7 years is bad form. Does he really want what’s good for Hinchinbrook or his political career?”