The election date was announced as November the 8th. Everyone had worked that out based on the available dates. But that didn’t stop Colin Espiner asking the PM if she had tipped off The Standard about the date seeing as we have called the 8th correctly on a number of occasions. No tip off Colin, just good analysis. And good timing on our part, because we’ve just launched our Campaign Hub 2008 page – this will supply details on coming events and campaigns you can help out, as well as providing a forum for people to upload their own authorised posters and leaflets, which everyone is free to print off and distribute. Oh, yeah, and Owen Glenn gave some pretty damning evidence against Peters at the Privileges Committee, as well as making some other comments that were, frankly, absurd. Hopefully, we can move beyond that media orgy and spend the campaign talking about issues that affect people’s lives. Here are our favourite posts of the week:
End of the line for Peters
Winston Peters will be wondering why he has let his political legacy be destroyed by not simply declaring donations that came from legal sources and being open in his role in soliciting them…[more]
Sideshow
sounds like Glenn enjoys a good yarn – complete with the requisite embellishments and flourishes that have been getting Kiwi blokes and their mates in the crap for years…[more]
Introducing Campaign Hub 2008
Have a gander, sign up, use the resources at the Campaign Hub, or just get into it. It’s only 58 days until the election, make it count. Remember, voting should not be the pinnacle of your participation in democracy. It should be only the beginning….[more]
The Greens’ billboards, too good?
I’m impressed with the Green’s new billboard campaign and I’m pretty certain it’ll work as it is clean and effective marketin…politics is being treated too much like an exercise in marketing a product that is related to the voter only in terms of their ‘purchase’ in the polling booth …[more]
Election date to be announced
$20 says it’s November 8…UPDATE: The 8th it is. I’ll be collecting my $20 off each of you in due course…[more]
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