Redcliffe MP Scott Driscoll linked to bailout bid for community radio station ONGOING INTERST: Queensland MP Scott Driscoll. SCOTT Driscoll's political associates answered a desperate plea for help from a cash-strapped local community radio station with an offer to take over its management at a potential cost of more than $3 million. The controversial MP even refused to appear on air until the deal was signed, station secretary Greg Honchin claims. Mr Honchin says he was called in last May by Ben Scott, an electorate officer and close political and business associate of Mr Driscoll's, to discuss an offer to solve financial problems at 99.7FM. Mr Honchin said it followed a pre-election promise by Mr Driscoll to help the station. Mr Scott told him at the meeting he had someone who could help, Mr Honchin said. Mr Driscoll's 2012 campaign treasurer and businessman Geoff Jamieson arrived at the station a week later with an offer of a loan from one of his companies. Mr Honchin said the loan contract was turned down because it hinged on a series of changes to the station's constitution proposed by Mr Jamieson, including giving the station's board the power to limit the number of members of the association that runs the station. He said Mr Jamieson made a second offer in September to take over the station's management. The management agreement shows Mr Jamieson wanted the station to pay $90,000 a year in management fees to his company Tamlin, rising by $10,000 a year over 10 years - a total of $1.35 million. Terminating the contract early would cost the station up to $3 million. This compares with annual running costs of about $70,000. Mr Jamieson's company would also be entitled to annual bonuses and out-of-pocket travel and accommodation expenses. In exchange, Tamlin would manage the station's daily affairs. Mr Honchin said the offer was knocked back. ``How could we sign a document like that when there was no guarantee we could find the sponsorship to bring that amount in all the time," Mr Honchin said. ``The radio station was on a hiding to nothing," he said. Local federal member Yvette D'Ath has since made representations on behalf of the station but it continues to struggle. Mr Jamieson had also requested the addition of 25 new station members in June last year - 11 of which were either family of Mr Jamieson or companies and organisations whose registered office is his home address. The requested membership additions also included Ben Scott and Brian Roselt, who also worked on Mr Driscoll's election campaign. Mr Jamieson denied being sent to help 99.7fm by Mr Driscoll, saying he had been introduced to the station while a candidate in last year's council elections. He has also denied trying to take over the station, saying the constitution changes were to protect his proposed loan. ``The organisation was in dire straits and I was trying to help it out and it had nothing to do with Scott Driscoll," Mr Jamieson said.