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June 24, 2004

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Mike Rowse news conference

Today I bring you an exclusive from Mike Rowse's news conference after the LegCo report on Harbour Fesst:

"Hell no, I won't go" said Mike Rowse, Invest HK's soon-to-be-former CEO. "You can't blame me. I wasn't even around for two months while they were planning the damn thing," he said to no-one in particular. "I just sign the cheques. Actually I didn't even do that for some of them. It's called delegating. I felt the work experience kid was ready to try spending $25 million. He's gotta learn somehow."

"I've got enough problems anyway with both the cops and ICAC looking at this too. Luckily my lawyers are a happy bunch," he said, pointing to a group of drunk Englishmen with fistfuls of taxpayer dollars in their hands. "Shame I didn't get them to check the MoU's in the first place but I was far too busy doing, ummm, other stuff."

"I am not saying I'm being made a scapegoat, but I am also not saying I'm not saying that I'm being made a scapegoat" said Rowse.

As the news conference ended Rowse was overheard saying, "that 'disciplinary action' thing sounds interesting. Reminds me of a night once in Wan Chai..."

 posted by Simon on 06.24.04 at 10:07 AM in the




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