Mount Albert Labour goes active

• lprent
• 15 years ago
• Categories: labour
• Tags: my mount albert

On the way to the Question & Answer session for the Mount Albert Labour selection candidates, it was clear that the campaign has kicked off.  The hall is slowly filling up, and it looks like the seats are all full. You’ll see a photo (from the iphone) of candidates on the front table just as the meeting started.

It is likely that local issues are going to be a very strong part of this campaign. Issues like the NACT super-city botch-up, the stalled train station upgrades after NACT stopped the financing, the changes to the state highway 20 where NACT is ‘reviewing’ the existing design to something that is noisier and far more intrusive to the local community, the doubling of the size of St Lukes mall using the NACT minimal protection RMA, etc. It will be interesting to see what the candidates for selection have to say.

The first hoardings are up from Labour (left), and I’m sure that I saw some from other parties at Point Chev. Apparently the door-knocking, pamphlets and phone canvassing is all underway for this seven week campaign. Don’t wait for the selection of a candidate, if you want to volunteer, then the Labour by-election is all ready to use your support effectively.

It will be exhausting.

So far the Q&A has been very interesting. The choices will be hard, but I’m sure that I will get a great candidate from it.

I managed to get a copy of the initial hoardings. Looks like a very local campaign, but that is my ‘home’ electorate. The waffle that John Key likes to push won’t work too well here. However I’m sure that he will turn up doing publicity stunts in support of whichever candidate National selects.