Posts by JLM
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A digression I know, but .. how do you pronounce this, Judy?
Slow rhyming with cow?
Slow rhyming with, well, slow?
Slew?
Sluff?
Sloff?I go with the "cow" version, myself Carol, not that I know for sure - one of the hazards of being a reader before a listener.
Not despondent at all at the moment, especially anticipating good election results from Dunedin
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Not according to the updated herald which has put in the number of seats per ward. They make it:
Rodney ward:
Penny Webster 8063
Albany ward
Michael Goudie 8538
Wayne Walker 8007North Shore ward
George Wood 14,116
Ann Hartley 12,767Waitakere ward
Penny Hulse 16,875
Sandra Coney 12,567Waitemata and Gulf ward
Mike Lee 10,523
Whau ward
Noelene Mary Raffills 7158
Albert-Eden-Roskill ward
Chris Fletcher 19,492
Cathy Casey 14,081Orakei ward
Cameron Brewer 17,021
Maungakiekie-Tamaki ward
Richard Northey 8614
Howick ward
Sharon Stewart 22,537
Jami-Lee Ross 18,382http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10679274
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Pasted these from the Herald - can someone tell me what they mean - are both names elected?
Rodney ward:
Penny Webster 8063
Christine Rose 5553Albany ward
Michael Goudie 8538
Wayne Walker 8007North Shore ward
George Wood 14,116
Ann Hartley 12,767Waitakere ward
Penny Hulse 16,875
Sandra Coney 12,567Waitemata and Gulf ward
Mike Lee 10,523
Alex Swney 4979Whau ward
Noelene Mary Raffills 7158
Ross Clow 6740Albert-Eden-Roskill ward
Chris Fletcher 19,492
Cathy Casey 14,081Orakei ward
Cameron Brewer 17,021
Doug Armstrong 10,433Maungakiekie-Tamaki ward
Richard Northey 8614
Alred Ngaro 6880Howick ward
Sharon Stewart 22,537
Jami-Lee Ross 18,382 -
Dunedin and Wellington are both STV - that will take longer.
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Not the one in the quad between the library archway and the English Dept? Or whatever they are in their current iteration? No, I think that was a copper beech. Anyway, sad!
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I suppose this is a start, but if you really wanted to lower food prices you'd set up government run supermarkets that offered produce at fair cost plus running expenses only to the public.
Ecotopia! Actually, I always rather liked the idea of having really basic food requirements available at subsidized prices so if people had to live really cheaply, they could. Beats food banks.
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I'd seen similar stuff elsewhere. The problem is that most of the easily identifiable unhealthy food makes money for some business. So the argument gets trotted out that governments should protect business.
When I saw the policy, I immediately thought, good for all those small scale businesses that do most of their business at farmers' markets, like the wonderful daughter/father enterprise just down the road from us. Then I wondered, do they pay GST? Presumably, but I'm not sure.
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I imagine National are quite happy with MMP. I've long-suspected that the promise of a referendum on MMP was something they came up with to assuage party members, many of whom will bail up MPs at every committee meeting and party function, asking why we haven't had that referendum. It's a big deal for some of them, and not a big deal either way for the MPs, so why not, if it keeps the party machine contented?
This link suggests otherwise.
The Prime Minister's chief of staff told anti-MMP campaigner Peter Shirtcliffe last year that John Key supported moving to a Supplementary Member system, and that there were no "impediments to progress" in caucus, leaked minutes show.
I'm sure Ive heard several times, including from one direct source, that Rodney Hide has been speaking out against MMP also.
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Call me Judy, Paul - look at my "from" and you'll see why. It was the only way I could find to beome un-anonymous (hat tip, Scott Yorke)