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I watched Campaign for the first time last night, and I can highly recommend it to anyone in this thread. It is a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the 1996 Wellington Central election. https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/campaign
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Was it very different to this one? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Campaign_(film)
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Did anyone else see this one coming? What a twist!  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11713072
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Sep 20, 2016 00:01
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cptn_dr posted:At least the Communist League fielded a candidate this year. Says something about local body politics that he's not even remotely the whackiest candidate. gently caress he's not even as loony as Crone or Palino.
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Sep 20, 2016 00:37
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Palino's campaign hasn't quite reached the comedy potential promised by his trainwreck of a campaign launch*. Oh what could've been. *Here it is, for anyone who missed it earlier this year. http://thespinoff.co.nz/politics-media/29-02-2016/we-need-to-look-in-the-front-vision-mirror-a-very-odd-afternoon-with-john-palino/
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http://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/popular-nelson-orchardist-out-of-visa-options-2016092005quote:"I feel sorry for both her and New Zealand," MP Damien O'Connor told Fairfax. I thought Labour was meant to be backpedaling from dog-whistling about immigration?
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Vagabundo posted:Did anyone else see this one coming? What a twist! I bet Louise Green is absolutely loving the prospect of some industrial action under her watch~ Nothing against her of course, just that she's that sort of person
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I voted for John Minto, and it feels great. It really just makes me wish all elections could be Left vs Lefter, since the discussions that come out of that kind of contest are so much more constructive than the usual Right-Left slogfest.
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Sep 20, 2016 04:13
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There are 11 candidates running for my ward, which is a really nice change from last time when Dick Quax and his minion rolled in unopposed. There are actual young people and non-pakeha running! Pity that Howick will never not be a conservative hell hole.
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Sep 20, 2016 04:18
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Rotorua was way boring. It also doesn't feel right to vote, when the mayor and I personally know each other.
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Apparently there's a protest in Mangere this October about the building plans for a spot near some caves and stones of cultural significance. Anyone got a skinny? The SOUL webpage doesn't exactly strike me as highly credible.
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NZ Media: however is donald trump so popular, truly a mystery, he's so racist and awful *unquestioningly reports everything winston peters says or does*
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Sep 20, 2016 07:34
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Cos he's so newsworthy etc.
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Sep 20, 2016 09:29
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Having just looked it up, it's Dr Jonathan Coleman you idiot.
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Sep 20, 2016 09:45
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Greens are really showing their true colours over this Kermadecs stuff eh
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French hitchhiker 'goes berserk' in New Zealand after four days stuck without a liftquote:A Frenchman has gone on a frustrated rampage in a tiny New Zealand fishing village after he spent four days waiting for a hitchhiking ride.
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I'd probably go berserk too if I got stuck in rural NZ
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Never seen a more glassable face in my life.
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Somfin posted:Never seen a more glassable face in my life.
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:He often wears a salmon-pink cravat. My right hand just twitched. You give me one shot of him in a stupid hat and you'll have to hold me back lads
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The best part is that the road through Punakaiki was closed due to a massive slip during some of that time so there would have been very few cars going that way. The few that did probably didn't want to pick up a crazy stone throwing guy.
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WE B Bourgeois posted:Greens are really showing their true colours over this Kermadecs stuff eh who do you think is the least bad party emarx? i used to think it was mana but they kind of jettisoned credibility last election.
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Sep 20, 2016 11:41
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WE B Bourgeois posted:Greens are really showing their true colours over this Kermadecs stuff eh What do you mean? They're supporting Maori fishing rights, or at least their rights to assert a claim.
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Ghostlight posted:Having just looked it up, it's Dr Jonathan Coleman you idiot. I thought he was Minister of Health (also, a fuckwit)? Didn't think we had or needed a Ministry for Men.
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Sep 20, 2016 12:26
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fong posted:What do you mean? They're supporting Maori fishing rights, or at least their rights to assert a claim. The latest stuff the Greens have released on this is unobjectionable, actually. My b. It's Russel Norman being a prick. focal ischemia posted:who do you think is the least bad party emarx? i used to think it was mana but they kind of jettisoned credibility last election. I still think Mana is good. The entire idea of an "internet party" is and was dumb as hell, and Dotcom was an easy (+ justifiable) hate figure, but their actual candidates seemed like decent, un-techy people. Mana gets pigeonholed as 'like the Māori Party but even scarier', but I think they're genuine about being a broader working class movement with Māori kaupapa — they just totally fail to communicate it, so they get attacked by the Māori Party as well. I doubt Hone can win Tai Tokerau back off Kelvin Davis but I'll probs waste my vote on them again  There seems to be an increasing left/hippy vs bike tory split in the Green Party. The guy replacing Hague is definitely in the Norman/Shaw mould.
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fong posted:What do you mean? They're supporting Maori fishing rights, or at least their rights to assert a claim. They support the sanctuary but want iwi on board and think National hosed up the process, the idiot scumbag fuckers.
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Sep 20, 2016 13:41
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I had high hopes for Mana until they threw their lot in with the Internet Party
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cptn_dr posted:I'd probably go berserk too if I got stuck in rural NZ Nah it's fine.
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The Sin of Onan posted:I thought he was Minister of Health (also, a fuckwit)? Didn't think we had or needed a Ministry for Men.
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Pararoid posted:I voted for John Minto, and it feels great. I'm not really confident in his ability to be anything other than a protester/protest vote. In other Christchurch voting news, I found a nutjob standing for the CDHB quote:Richard E ROE Alternative Medicine stays "alternative" until it's scientifically proven, then it becomes Modern Medicine.
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I'll just plug a friend of mine that is standing for the Wellington health board. Please to vote for her if you live in the appropriate area and you align yourself to the left (or the right - whatever, just vote for her as she'll do a great job): https://www.facebook.com/helen4ccdhb/
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I still justify my vote for Internet/Mana as just a vote for Mana plus Laila Harre. e: also WE B Bourgeois posted:bike tory mods please change my name to bike tory voiceless anal fricative fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Sep 21, 2016 |
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The Rabbi T. White posted:I'll just plug a friend of mine that is standing for the Wellington health board. Please to vote for her if you live in the appropriate area and you align yourself to the left (or the right - whatever, just vote for her as she'll do a great job): Authorised by butt street
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Binkenstein posted:I'm not really confident in his ability to be anything other than a protester/protest vote. Nah, alternative medicine stays alternative until it works. Then it becomes medicine. Same with Traditional Chinese medicine. And Acupuncture. And Homeopathic medicine. And-
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The Rabbi T. White posted:I'll just plug a friend of mine that is standing for the Wellington health board. Please to vote for her if you live in the appropriate area and you align yourself to the left (or the right - whatever, just vote for her as she'll do a great job): Gonna second this, Helen would be an excellent candidate.
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bike tory posted:I still justify my vote for Internet/Mana as just a vote for Mana plus Laila Harre. Same
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:Authorised by butt street Yeah. She lives up Butt. My little one gets many chuckles out of that. e: Who the gently caress am I kidding? I find it hilarious, too. The Rabbi T. White fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Sep 21, 2016 |
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Tangentially related; is there anywhere I can go to get a decent view of the candidates? All that wellington.govt.nz has to offer is the candidates in their own words, and since actual policy statements are few and far between, I'm inherently a bit suspicious of most of what's on offer.
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