Written By: - Date published: 10:38 am, October 3rd, 2008 - 49 comments
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Yesterday, I printed and cut 6500 A6 leaflets from the designs on the Campaign Hub and took them along to Drinking Liberally. They were all gone in minutes.
The Right wins and keeps power by dis-empowering and disenfranchising, by taking away our voice. So, it was great to see so many people take it on themselves to grab a bundle of leaflets for delivering around their neighbourhoods to help spread the message.
It’s inspiring. Good on ya.
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Pat writes,
But that’s ok because women can do it in seconds!
Rex
“….having had my family attacked in my home when in politics I know I wouldn’t be keen.”
Really ?
I’m staggered that anyone takes politics this seriously, there really are some feral nutters in this country !
“And if Party B got their money from dubious sources, then no amount of pamphlets will save them”
Just because Bumbling Brash ballsed-up big time doesn’t mean we can expect that to happen every time.
Anita
Going to the top of Mt Victorai in a howling gale and flinging them into the wind doesn’t count.
Argh bring back the edit button I say !!
Pat: There are better things to spend money on than billboards. The Nay’s do them because they have more money than volunteers – so they use relatively ineffective techniques.
Besides the Nay’s billboards are pretty boring this time.
hs: I have a 2.6.2 version of wordpress and associated plugins almost ready to apply. The bit that is holding it up is to find time to do the css on the reedit. The later version of that plugin is ugly as hell in the native version.
But campaign work keeps removing all of my spare time
Steve:
Taking away your voice?
Why do those on the left feel that they have been victimized all the time?
Do you really think your voice has been taken away?
Has this site been shut down? Are you stopped from handing out flyers in the street?
I know the very unwashed man in dreads who is always handing out his flyers about communism in chch is still allowed to, so im guessing people’s voices aren’t being taken away?
Still hats off to anybody who gets involved in the process.
To hell with democracy, Lynn, enabling us to hide the fact that we’re barely literate gibbering baboons is more important!
higher standard: Yes, it truly happened. They were Winston supporters of such weirdness that if I hadn’t seen them myself I wouldn’t have believed they existed.
When they started “helping” my campaign by grabbing what they thought was a reporter (actually it was an innocent young ad sales girl) and baling her up because they weren’t happy with the coverage, I asked them nicely to find someone else to support (I may have mentioned Peter Dunne was short of helpers, I’m not sure…
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Alas that proved that I was part of some conspiracy involving the Tauranga Masonic Lodge, the US government and goodness knows who else. They burst into my home when I was in the shower, leaving me with two very unpleasant options.
I took the “Borat” approach, and crash tackled one of them whilst naked (hey, thank me for that image later). The cops came and marched them off, and thankfully that was the last I saw of them.
So the whole “home address” thing is a flaw in the EFA, yeah.
If you saw some of the stuff that gets mailed to Parliament… how can the idiots who drafted and passed this law not have given a moment’s thought to the fact that that – and worse – may come hurtling through their campaign manager’s window?!
That’s a shocker of a story Rex.
They are amoung us, and they vote.
I once got a hand delivered note in my mail box in reply to a ‘letter to the editor’ I wrote about the importance of keeping government secular. Clown must have been so peeved that he looked my name up in the phone book and matched it to the suburb published in the paper.
Not quite a death threat, it was in the form of an ‘imprecatory prayer’. Which is a prayer that God should deliver his justice unto me, and going into some detail about what that justice should include, me being such a filthy sinner not fit to live.
It’s been a few years, so Gods biding his time obviously.
Hey Rex- I agree that it’s a recipe for attacks by nutters, but frankly, how else would you deal with abusers like the Exclusive Brethren who posted empty offices as their addresses on their paralell-campaigning material?
Say what you like about someone having to be hassled for authorising this stuff, but at least it’s closed up the ridiculous loopholes that allowed the Nats to spend over the limit on more than just their GST.
You forgot to include the Alliance among the ‘progressive party logos’ at the Campaign Hub site.
They are still around, do good policy and publicity material and have a valuable role to play.
rex…what was it exactly in the “Kool aid” and why has your life turned into a marvel comic?
Is it true that SP’s posters have been deemed illegal by the Electoral Commission?
[no. There has been no complaint about the posters, which do comply with the EFA. Slater took a complaint against a protest I took part in. He lost. I was not found to be in breach of the EFA. SP]