Infonews inter­views Chris­tine Rankin

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Simeon Brown has received another email from Chris Carter. He handed it to me at the march today. It should be noted that Chris Carter is our Edu­ca­tion Minister.

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Thou­sands march against Elec­toral Finance Bill – 01 Dec 2007 – NZ Her­ald: New Zealand National news

March to protest elec­toral finance bill – New Zealand, world, sport, busi­ness & enter­tain­ment news on Stuff.co.nz

Thou­sands take to Auckland’s streets | NATIONAL | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz

TV3 > News > Story > Almost 5000 march against Elec­toral Finance Bill

I reckon we had over 6000, there were cer­tainly heaps more than last time, show­ing Helen Clark and the rest of the coun­try that though they are still in love with Helen and Labour Auck­land has had enough.

Speak­ers were John Boscawen, Chris­tine Rankin Bob McCoskrie and Danny Wat­son. I’ll post video later as soon as I edit it.

MP’s in atten­dence were Judith Collins, Jackie blue, Wayne Mapp and Rod­ney Hide (who marched wear­ing a duct tape gag). City Coun­cil­lors Sam Lotu-i-iga from Auck­land and Jami-Lee Ross and Dick Quax from Manukau City were there. Chris­tine Rankin is an ARC Coun­cil­lor and she spoke as well.

It was very sat­is­fy­ing to hear chants of Kill the Bill. Blog­ger power was in evi­dence as well with MikeE, Fair­facts Media, and Gooner there plus plenty of my loyal read­ers some of whom I don’t even know.

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IHC gar­den work­ers out of a job – New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz

I have blogged on this repeat­edly and have copped abuse from left­ist arse­holes as a result, but as I pre­dicted the news­pa­pers are now fill­ing with dis-heartened and crapped upon dis­abled peo­ple who have lost one of the few enjoy­ments in life these deserv­ing folk get.

The gov­ern­ment on this issue alone should be tossed from power. Admit­tedly I am per­son­ally affected by this stu­pid law, but I mean even the most dim-witted could have seen this happening.

Ms Sel­l­ens should change her name to Sell­out, because that is what she has done to these peo­ple. Instead of arrang­ing a party to cel­e­brate she should be pack­ing her desk. Even her own organ­i­sa­tion has gone against the party line of cel­e­bra­tion and shown the rest of us what this law means by say­ing that “did not want to be an employer.” They shut the doors despite the main organ­i­sa­tion hav­ing a fricken party.

Arseholes!!

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NZ stuck as other nations pros­per – New Zealand, world, sport, busi­ness & enter­tain­ment news on Stuff.co.nz

An other report another black mark for the government.

Gee, that makes it 1 year of National and 8 of Labour….can’t blame that report on the pre­vi­ous government.

Cullen, in typ­i­cal social­ist fash­ion decided deri­sion and denial is the best pol­icy.

Oh con­traire Cullen, accord­ing to the report stand­ing still is the only thing we have been doing as other nations leap ahead.

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Car­toon: The week that was – part 2 – 01 Dec 2007 – Polit­i­cal News – New Zealand Herald

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THE AMAZING SPORTING CELEBRITY-SIGNED BEAN BAG for sale – TradeMe.co.nz – New Zealand

Richie Bar­nett has donated a bean bag for the Auck­land Down Syn­drome Asso­ci­a­tion for fundraising.

Since his retire­ment from rugby league, Richie has enjoyed a career as a sports broad­caster as well as hav­ing suc­cess­ful busi­ness inter­ests. One of the pro­grammes he co-presented was Code on Maori TV and all vis­it­ing sport­ing heroes were invited to auto­graph the bean bag that was in the stu­dio. So far about half of the sig­na­tures have been iden­ti­fied and they include from rugby union Ali Williams, Buck Shelford, Dan Carter, Luke MacAl­is­ter, Rico Gear and Peri Weepu. From rugby league, apart from the great man him­self, there are Brian McClen­nan, Dean Bell, Jerome Ropati, Louis Ander­son and Taw­era Nikau. From box­ing there are David Tua and Shane Cameron, Che Bunce from soc­cer, Greg Mur­phy the rac­ing dri­ver, Jason Sut­tie the kick boxer, Shelly Kitchen from squash, Sheryl Scan­lan from net­ball, moun­tain biker Vanessa Quin and jockey Michael Walker.

These are only some of the amaz­ing names that appear on the bean bag.

Go and bid and help raise some money for a deserv­ing cause.

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Face­book | Charles Ashe for Prime Minister

Some­one has set up a Face­book group “Charles Ashe for Prime Min­is­ter”. I think this guy would be bril­liant as PM, maybe if he stands in Mt Albert he could give Clark a run for her money.

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John Arm­strong: When a lit­tle humil­ity could go a long way – As a much-needed anti­dote to the third-term arro­gance which peri­od­i­cally afflicts the Gov­ern­ment, Labour could do itself a power of good by acknowl­edg­ing it occa­sion­ally gets things wrong.
The obvi­ous place to start is the Elec­toral… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

John Arm­strong out­lines some options to assist labour avoid elec­toral embar­ras­ment over their arro­gance of try­ing to ram through the Elec­toral Finance Bill. 

Of course labour won’t do that because they have staked so much on their claim that the EB are evil spenders of their own money while at the same time for­get­ting that the EB’s broke no rules and Labour broke sev­eral inculd­ing knick­ing $800,000 of our money to fund its campaign.

If any­one used “big money to buy elec­tions” it was them. They won after all and thus can be the only ones charged with buy­ing the election.

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Move to National – 01 Dec 2007 – NZ Her­ald: New Zealand National news

For­mer ACT Mp Stephen Franks is seek­ing selec­tion for National in Welling­ton Cen­tral. Great stuff as Stephen cer­tainly has a brain on him and was one of ACT’s major losses at the last election.

Of course it poses a prob­lem for ACT in that they can get ACT by default if enough for­mer ACT MP’s stand for National.

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News car­toons – NZ Herald

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There is another Auck­land March tomor­row. Here are the details and a let­ter from John Boscawen.

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Charles Ashe Mp is a big fan of “pros­trate cancer”….he sports an impres­sive Mo’ for Movember.

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National rules out join­ing elec­tion spend­ing talks – 30 Nov 2007 – NZ Her­ald: New Zealand National news

Labour is rush­ing around try­ing to tidy up its shonky Elec­toral Finance Bill. National for its part has said it will not be party to any back room deals.

The Bill must be Killed.

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Party pres­i­dent owns up to texts – 30 Nov 2007 – NZ Her­ald: New Zealand National news

Sheesh either Mike Williams doesn’t like Dear Leader or he loves putting both feet firmly in his mouth as he has revealed that he is prob­a­bly the one who texted Dear leader dur­ing the Queens Speech.

It is com­mon cour­tesy to turn off phone or at least put them on silent when in meet­ings, and lis­ten­ing to the head of the Com­mon­wealth would cer­tainly put it way beyond the level of a meet­ing. It is just plain rude to have even read the mes­sage, much less responded to it.

There is noth­ing, repeat noth­ing so impor­tant in New Zealand that war­rants check­ing text mes­sages in the mid­dle of any­ones speech let alone the Queen’s.

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