Capture: Two Tales of a City
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Cart before the horse.
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Protest against Deep Sea drilling on Brighton Beach. 24 Nov . 2013
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NO DRILLS NO SPILLS
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Dedicated surfies give Deep Sea Drilling the thumbs down.
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Hebe, in reply to
Good photos Gudrun: the fog slowly rolled in and made everything odd and floaty. I specially like those ones of the beach and of my protesters that you put on Facebook.
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Hebe,
Poto Williams’s win in Christchurch East: beloved did a little work for the campaign, so a few observations from a slightly-involved POV: Amazing person and worked incredibly hard; she sold herself with a punishing campaign of street meetings and door-knocking and getting out there. The Chch East electorate numbers are estimated between 28,00 and 35,000, so a 14,000 turn-out for a by-election certainly isn’t shabby. Greens collapsed. National will be perturbed: it was a hammering.
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Greens collapsed
Actually they went from 4.9% of the vote at the general election to 6.9%. I wouldn't call that a collapse.
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Stephen Judd, in reply to
Yeah, I'm pretty stoked by this. Good practice for Labour in Christchurch, and a nice end to an exhausting 6 months for the Chch party. Shame it didn't get more coverage in the national media.
Pretty sure people who haven't seen a Labour rosette in years got door-knocked -- it's going to be great groundwork for the 2014 election.
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Hebe, in reply to
Led on TV One news: pretty surprising. Media presence was intensive last night-- good swarming of TV, Sky, RNZ, print.
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Hebe, in reply to
Yeah, sorry I got that wrong. Should have said that the Greens got less than I expected they would.
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Lilith __, in reply to
the Greens got less than I expected they would.
Without a party-vote to compare, it's not a meaningful data point I don't think. Green-inclined voters may have voted tactically for a strong Labour candidate.
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Hebe, in reply to
True.
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Hebe,
Vernon Small gets it, though he misses that Poto’s vote is also a vote for her: the easterners have fine BS detectors and Poto sailed through that test during her 200 street corner meetings and goodness-knows-how-many personal doorknocks.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/columnists/9465961/Size-of-defeat-a-warning-to-National
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Stephen Judd, in reply to
Yeah, she's a woman who can think on her feet. Probably why she won the nomination in the first place.
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Studly Lawyer.
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On my way to a mates place last night I saw the Loo Roll Cathedral full to overflowing with parishioners. On the way home at 11pm the homeless gather like moths to the flame around the Sallys Coffee van in Latimer Square.
I thought I might have picked up a cab on the way but the CBD is a place even the homeless don't go after dark these days.
On the plus side I got to walk across Victoria Square for the first time since the quakes. It's now a secret garden no-ones sees anymore. -
Hebe,
Street art everywhere. Yay. http://www.rebuildchristchurch.co.nz/blog/2013/12/street-art-in-christchurch-cbd-december-2013
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
painting the town dividered...
Street art everywhere. Yay.
Loving that large Tony Fomison painting...
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Happy New Year.
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Hebe, in reply to
Loving that large Tony Fomison painting…
Curiously apt: looks to me like the guy is pushing away what he sees around him.
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Hebe,
The kind of thing people in Christchurch are dealing with: a relative's family’s story.
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Pretty sad to read this. Gerry Brownlee needs to take a close look at his actions over the past three years. As well as EQC , Insurances and CERA. Disgraceful is not a strong enough word to use..
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Hebe, in reply to
My understanding is that it was mostly insurance and build-related delay rather than Cera/land status. Just shows how long this is all taking: that is one of the first houses on Mt Pleasant to be rebuilt, and many were trashed up there.
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The Sir Dougy Graham award goes to - Sideshow Bob.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9565051/Bob-Parker-knightedAs for John Hamilton & Civil Defence. Johnny is as Deserving as Sideshow. Civil Defence must be disestablished and roll its functions into the NZDF Reserves. This will free up another night on the Probus calendar.
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Best wishes for 2014 . Looking forward to positive changes local and global .
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