Posts by Andrew Geddis
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Legal Beagle: D-Day for Dunne (updated), in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
McGee's advice was about how the Privileges Committee should look at it, right? Not that Parliament should debate to report before the decision was made?
Not certain. But given that the Committee only makes recommendations to the House, which the House then must either accept/reject, it wouldn't surprise me if the advice was that "the House should decide this issue (via the mechanism of a Privileges Committee hearing and vote on its report)".
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Legal Beagle: D-Day for Dunne (updated), in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Oops - I was only half-listening to Parker while getting breakfast for the kids. Sorry!
But I promise I did listen very carefully to you, Graeme.
That said ... why won't the Speaker release that advice? I recall that Hunt released David McGee's opinion in the Duynhoven case (which was that he should delay his decision). Can't see why Carter wouldn't do the same, here.
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Legal Beagle: D-Day for Dunne (updated), in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
David Parker made a statement about Carter claiming he had legal advice then admitting he had "advice" not legal advice. Carter clearly said advice, and the Winston Peters started calling it legal advice for some reason etc.
Do we care about whether it is "advice" or "legal advice" or "procedural advice" or "interpretation advice" or "pink-with-purple patches advice"? What possible difference does the terminological point make?
Just listening to Peters on Morning Report right now. He called it "advice". So we're all happy now, right?!
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Legal Beagle: D-Day for Dunne (updated), in reply to Craig Ranapia,
"Law aside, I’m rather enjoying the theatrical outrage from the very people who pushed through a retrospective change to the Electoral Act under all-stages urgency to avoid a by-election in New Plymouth."
Just as you’re enjoying the insouciant “what’s all the fuss – nothing to see here” response from the very people who reacted with theatrical outrage to the Speaker’s decision to delay declaring Duynhoven’s seat vacant so as to allow said law to be passed?
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OnPoint: What Andrew Geddis Said, But…, in reply to Gareth Swain,
Gareth,
Yes. It is pretty small beer.
You may well think that the Government is motivated more by petty resentment at being forced into doing anything by the Courts than actual concrete concerns with the policy, but I couldn't possibly comment.
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OnPoint: What Andrew Geddis Said, But…, in reply to Ianmac,
Ianmac,
Technically, the legislation was part of the budget, hence covered by the MP's agreement for confidence and supply.
That, and they wouldn't have read it before voting.
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to Bevan Shortridge,
Politico.com has them at 50.0% each (77.9% reporting)
Bachmann has a lead of 1700, with 81% reporting. But her lead has been slowly growing ... unless there's some precincts out there with lots of Democrat votes in them, she may survive.
Alan West, however, has lost ... .
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Couple of fun House races involving "Tea Party" darlings to keep watching, while we wait for Romney to stop sulking and just concede so that Obama can give his victory speech ... Alan West is behind by a few hundred votes, while Michelle Bachmann is leading by a similarly small margin.
Could be the cherry on the top of a quite pleasant evening (over here).
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I’m really fucking sick of hearing from people who should know better – not least Jon Johansson on One – that Obama won’t have a “real mandate” unless he wins the popular vote.
Obama is going to win the popular vote - handily. The outstanding votes are in California/Oregon/Washington. He'll end up with a "mandate" of over a million votes in the popular vote.
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to Luke Williamson,
87% reported for Florida and Obama with 0.5% lead.
Can I just go on record here as saying that Obama is going to win Florida (the bulk of the remaining votes are in Miami-Dade, which he's winning by 2-1)? And so Obama is going to be the next President of the USA.
You can all turn off your computers/TVs now. I have spoken.