Voting Local 2010
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Everybody in the Capital and Coast DHB region - please vote for David Choat of the Policy Progress blog and the Care Not Cuts ticket.
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Sofie! How could you? I would NEVER vote City Rats. Never, d'ya hear me?
Loud and clear, but I thought as much anyway, for you are a woman with sensible qualities :)
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Thank you my darling.
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Local Board voting returns so far:
Albert-Eden Maungawhau - 3.2%
Albert-Eden Owairaka - 2.0%
Devonport-Takapuna - 3.7%
Mangere-Otahuhu - 4.1%
Maungakiekie-Tamaki - Tamaki division - 3.4%, Maungakiekie division - 4.0%
Orakei - 4.1%
Puketapapa - 2.9%
Waitemata - 3.1%
Whau - 2.3%Haven't got Council figures yet.
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Kia ora Christopher Dempsey-
do you really think a social aphobic, whose main interests are art, literature, insects & fish (o, and food, wine & whisky!) could *be* a politician????
Besides, while a lot of Coasters knew me as a whitebaiter, buggerall know me as a writer.
Not a goer, eh?
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No, a goer you are! Meaning, find someone other than a white straight male d'un certain age, d'un certain worldview to stand!
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Besides, while a lot of Coasters knew me as a whitebaiter, buggerall know me as a writer.
I find that very hard to believe.
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Right Christopher D! As long as it's not me, and this person recovers from her cancer, I know the perfect candidate! Widely known, highly respected, artistic - and, oh! expected to be retired just now-
and that is the frigging problem.
The real goodies, who are community-minded, and have proved it over the past 30+ years, and who are out of the Lions Club/Rotarian grind machine, have pretty well given up on the whole political machinery - most often, for very good personal reasons...but you hang in there mate!
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I have never smoked or drunk alcohol, and my hobbies include doing jig-saw puzzles, reading, and collecting vintage computers. . When you hang with me, you never look back.
That would make a very good, but ironic, Twitter bio. You sort of feel the last sentence is incomplete. '...as you run screaming for your life.'
Did some research into the 'Ballot Order Effect', because reading the candidate information booklet made me want to smash my head against something hard. Turns out it does exist, however it is not as significant with 'major party candidates', which I guess applies to Banks and Brown. Still, they are in the Bs, so Wayne Young really hasn't a hope. Nothing to do with his opening gambit:
To be honest the salary of a quarter of a million dollars appeals.
I can respect a man who puts his mouth where his money is.
ETA: He has also coined the phrase 'sewage footpaths'. Some of them are a bit shit, but this seems slightly harsh.
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Actually Jackie that's a fact - I'm that weirdo who selfbuilt that weird house in (humph!) Okarito!
Not a proper person at all.
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I'm that weirdo who selfbuilt that weird house in (humph!) Okarito!
Not a proper person at all.
And don't I know lots of them. All my bestist friends are self builts except Jackie's the non self built I throw into the mix. :) Cant wait until we join the club of self builts, soon now.
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Hey, on that beautiful property north?
Waua! Gonna be a goodie Sofie, Steve, me te mutt- -
Islander. I have friends in England that know of you as a writer. I have friends in Auckland who I didn't think would know you but they did and have even worked close to you at some sorta camp or hostel for youth. They all knew of the " famous writer down the way" Yes, people in England have read your words. One should never sell themselves short my friend.
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Hey, on that beautiful property north?
Aye.
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Islander, while in Singapore last week saw a certain book with a new cover on the shelf at two bookstores; Borders and Kinokuniya.
One should never sell themselves short my friend.
What she said.
Sofie, if you are building your own home, I am insanely jealous. Seems the 40s makes you think more about where you would have the kitchen, if you built it yourself.
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(Humbly crawls back under rock - but notes those people - hey, bless! - arnt from here...)
Re The Okarito Youth Hostel: it is the 2nd oldest building in Okarito (the first is Donovan's Store which is a class 1 historic building - complete with the knocking quarters upstairs.) Both have parts that date to the late 1860s.
Because the population of Big O is aging (we number 35ish, but there are wee kids) there arnt enough people to act as custodians or guides for a lot of the stuff round here. And, it is an area that is not easy to live in. So, the place will die off.
It is also very fraught: the 'village' is built on swamp & sand-dunes & old riverbank, and we are 25k away from the major slip of the Alpine Fault. And the place has been washed by 2 major tsunami.
I Love Living Here!
But, will probably end my days over the other side of the hill, Oamaru - or, preferably, especially, Moeraki e!
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Well if you won't stand Islander how about talking Lynda just down the road into it. ;o)
If she could tolerate enough of the bullshit involved she would be pretty good IMHO.
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Lynda - especially after her recent run in apropos Donovan's and making some - erm, non-community-involved decisions- which turned out to be non-community-supported- probably wouldnt be goer. Right?
And, I suggest if you Dave Waugh - whom I do not know - wish to discuss this kind of stuff you email me. It is of no moment to others on this site.
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...how the National Party actually works, or how it doesn't actually directly get involved in local body campaigns...
Except to try and design an electoral system that will guarantee their favoured candidate success, or if that seems too slow, just sack the council, cancel elections and appoint commissioners.
Campaigning is so last century.
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Except to try and design an electoral system that will guarantee their favoured candidate success, or if that seems too slow, just sack the council, cancel elections and appoint commissioners.
And all in the first term. Fancy that.
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Besides, while a lot of Coasters knew me as a whitebaiter, buggerall know me as a writer.
hmmm, I guess having a big net presence means something completely different on the coast, then...
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Interesting that Brian Neeson is describing himself as an independent, and playing up his HRC role.
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Interesting is one way to descibe how many candidates describe themselves as "independent" rather than acknowledge long-standing affiliations. Dishonest might be another..
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Interesting is one way to describe how many candidates describe themselves as "independent" rather than acknowledge long-standing affiliations. Dishonest might be another..
Well there is that, but at the same time it just requires a bit of study as to get to know some of these people plus also they (some) give themselves away a bit by how they present themselves. Words like authority, graffiti, roads are quite good indicators for me that they hate the yoof or want to control something. Examples of their past does help to see what side they like their bread buttered also. I'm not so worried if a person claims to be independent, for some it's definitely a little shifty, but what the hey.
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Here on Waiheke Island the elections are always a lively affair and we have consistently better turnouts than other areas in Auckland. Yup, 17 candidates for 5 seats. You can see, hear and ask them all here.
Plenty of candidate meetings, including speed dating. Some have been standing since Waiheke was connected to the mainland during the last ice age and still haven't gotten in. But it's all in good fun, apart from some long standing grudges between candidates (which, I fear, may end up in a dysfunctional board if they all get elected) and aggressive heckling during the tea and scones session at Grey Power.Disclosure: my partner is standing too.
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