Posts by Hebe
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Emma Hart,
Until this morning, when I joined the Greens...
I'm feeling bad... it's in the "things I must get around to" box - join the Greens, dung out the garage, join the Summit Road Society,
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Yes.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Sounds like another case of stuffing words into mouths for the sake of a 'sexy story'
More like a credulous reporter who doesn't do a lot of deep thinking.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
The jockeying by parties in boundary redraws is part of the process, though the commission obviously has the final say.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Keir Leslie,
I , cough, am very supportive of the bees. I can make a case for the bees thriving being the foundation of agriculture etc, but I'm not sure the council in this city at this time should commit funding to it.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Stuff polls are notoriously right wing, to be fair
Yeah but sometimes they are odd: only two-to-one against a council bee convenor last week surprised me.
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the exhausted scary fucked-off mothers of Christchurch.
A lovely line and a frightening visual image Emma.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Emma Hart,
Correct. I expect a scrap by National and Labour over the redraw -- which will have significant changes for the city and province. National will be trying to bed in their perceived shift in in Chch Central to surrounding electorates like Port Hills and Waimak (though Cosgrove's in with a good chance next time because Kate Wilkinson's star has tarnished, nationally and locally).
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Yup. As a former Easter until a few years ago, you're right
Though your column assumes Dalziel will resign if she _stands_ for the mayoralty, not if she _wins_. Is that clear yet?
The other factor to consider when shopping for a candidate is that the nature of the electorate will change in the next boundary redraw: many voters have left the area, so it's possible the East geographical area will expand while Waimak shrinks in area with the influx of people. So the next candidate may need to be one with a wider appeal who will capture the centre vote. Which will make any by-election effectively a
pre-campaign campaign.The other thing to note is that nominations for local body elections don't close for a while: who knows who else could stand. I think Bob Parker will only stand if he thinks he is in with a good chance of winning. Today's Stuff poll on would you vote for Liann or Bob is interesting: either the Parker team have hammered the keyboards or it is not at all a foregone win for Dalziel. (Parker is a great user of social media).
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
A Gerry-built city?
Hope all here are dry and laying in supplies for the next few days: MetService now has a "high confidence" of snow. We have all had flu for the last week, and puppies -- vibrant little beasts now. Staggering to the surface in time to bring in some firewood!