Video shows Sports Minister’s father taking opponent’s signs

The election campaign in Logan heated up on the weekend with the father of a Labor MP caught on video taking down his opponent’s corflutes. WATCH THE VIDEO

Megan Sinnamon picks up one of the dumped Darren Power signs from her front footpath.

THE election campaign in Logan heated up on the weekend with the father of a Labor MP caught on video taking down his opponent’s corflutes.

Video footage from security cameras at two houses in Woodridge show Allan de Brenni, father of the state’s Sports Minister Mick de Brenni, dumping signs from his opponent on a nearby footpath.

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One of Mr de Brenni’s helpers is seen taking down a corflute from a fence on the corner of Southgate Dr and Ewing Rd at Woodridge.

Mr de Brenni said he had no help or contact with the Queensland Labor Party, of which his son is a member and serves as a minister in the state Labor government.

The sign was for another mayoral candidate Darren Power, who said he put his corflute on the fence on March 1 after he was given consent from the owner of the property, Jo Ford.

A man helping Allan de Brenni removes a Darren Power sign from a fence in Ewing Rd, Woodridge.

Mr de Brenni, a solicitor, said his actions were appropriate “open conduct” and honourable.

“I had authority to put my sign up,” he said.

“When I went there (on Saturday) my sign was down and rather than having any issues, I took Darren’s down and put mine up and that was the end of it,” Mr de Brenni said.

“I had my sign in that location and it was removed – I put my sign up two days or three days earlier.

“I knocked on the door and the lady in the house gave me the authority to do that.”

Mr de Brenni put up signs at the three corners of the T junction with Ewing Rd.

Allan de Brenni in a yellow shirt takes one of Darren Power’s signs across the road.

He said a man mowing the lawn at a property across the road also gave approval for him to put up a sign.

He also said Mr Power had been removing his signs and replacing them with his.

But Ms Ford and her neighbour Megan Sinnamon, who lives on the corner of Fairdale St and Ewing Rd, both deny giving Mr de Brenni approval.

The T-junction at Ewing Rd. The house where the video was taken is on the left.

“Darren Power had my approval to put his sign on my fence and also on my neighbour’s fence, where the video was taken,” Ms Sinnamon said.

“Mr de Brenni came around in the middle of the day and ripped Darren Power’s sign off my friend’s fence and then dumped them across the road at my fence.

“He then replaced them with his signs and then stuck his signs up on my fence as well,” Ms Sinnamon said.

Mr Power said he had put his signs up weeks ago and had been a target for the past two weeks.

“He has been taking my signs down and putting his up in front of mine.”