Speaker: Facing the floods
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St Gerry and the Tower Miracle…
Not really the right thread but it’s the most recent Chchch one (and James or Labour may be able to follow up on this usefully)
Brownlee is nigh on getting a sainthood for intervening in a dispute between a shopowner and Telecom – result: things moved – looks all well and good. – but on looking deeper it makes ya wonder about just what the activation point for MPs ‘helping their constituents’ is, especially in light of Maurice’s minor infraction, and what must be an impending infarction for drama queen Joan, er, Judith Collins.I posted this comment (below) to The Press story – but it hasn’t shown up yet:
Would it be churlish to suggest that, in Karen Crisp’s role as President of the Pharmacy Guild’s Canterbury Electorate and one time (maybe even current) President or executive chair, of the whole guild – she knows a thing or two about lobbying politicians, and log rolling…
see: http://www.pgnz.org.nz/Gerry really, really needs a ‘feel good story’ in the media about now – with a slow newsday (sunday) press release…
One wonders if Gerry would have been so proactive had she just been a concerned little old lady, and not someone used to having her photo taken with Tony Ryall at Pharmacy Guild events, and the like?
We know how careful politicians are about telephone calls they make on behalf of their constituents…
Or perhaps she is just carrying on the Pharmacy Guild’s ‘Be Bold’ campaign initiated in 2011 by then CEO (and ex National MP and lobbyist, and the author of ‘The Good Lobbyists Guide’) Annabel Young (who mysteriously resigned from the guild in 2012) and is now an adviser to Judith Collins at the Ministry of Justice and ACC …
see:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/6773286/Pharmacy-Guild-head-leaves
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1111/S00034/guild-invites-politicians-to-be-seen-in-community-pharmacy.htmof course these could all be happy coincidences…
She and her fellow community pharmacists may not be that happy with him and the National Party if the TPP Agreement goes through under urgency soon, and Pharmac gets taken out of the equation…
Just sayin’….
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Brownlee is nigh on getting a sainthood
With the bar for canonizations currently set so low this miracle ought to get him over the hump.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
National is Toast – collect the set!
…this miracle ought to get him over the hump.
Nice!
The Patron(ising) Saint of Pop-Up (Cities)…
and imagine him smeared in dairy products, yum……Oh, sorry, for that image…
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Hebe, in reply to
Good God; I think I can see the egg on his face.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Vindications are...
We always get nearly 50% more than the amount recorded at the airport.
While your readings are different you cant compare them with the standardised ‘ official gauges’Michael you keep on comparing your figures...
- the 'official gauges' were wrong!
Keep questioning 'officialdumb', especially when they depend on unreliable 'wetnesses' for recording rainfalls, mainly on the plains...
;- )A faulty rain gauge at Christchurch Airport has been under-reporting the amount of rainfall in the city.
Meteorologist John Law said a technical team had switched over to a backup version, which had been recording ''much more reasonable'' figures.
Rainfall records from the backup gauge showed 15mm of rain fell in January, 56.8mm in February, 151.2mm in March and 216.6mm in April. Adding a couple of days from May into the mix brought the total up to 442.4mm.
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The MetService provided an incorrect rainfall figure in a previous story published on press.co.nz. It said the airport, on average, received about 443mm of rain a year. The correct figure is 620mm. -
Hebe, in reply to
Now for the PM10 figures recall.
BTW, KordaMentha report into CCC coming out this afternoon. Chris Lynch on ZB says Raf Manji told him yesterday in an interview for CTV that the city is "facing a tsunami of debt".
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