Posts by Mikaere Curtis
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Super Mayor
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides: How to Be…, in reply to Craig Young,
Er, Emma? The Greens don't have a policy on supporting same-sex marriage proper.
We support the extension of all legal partnership arrangements and rights to same-sex couples
Yes, it doesn't explicitly say "Same Sex Marriage", but you can hardly extend "all legal partnership arrangements" without serious consideration of whether this ought to include marriage; indeed, it is hard to justify not including it.
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Nice one, Emma.
In your up-coming followup post, entitled How to Succesfully Internalise the Opinion Column Opinions, don't forget to include a section on using talkback to reinforce even the most narrow-minded rhetoric.
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Looks very nice, Russell, and the larger gravatars mean I can see what some of those icons actually are:) Also, is all the graphical integration part of a master plan to enable "Kitteh ov da day!" photos ?
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You'd need around 9000 votes or so to get a seat (factually, given recent turnouts).
This value is skewed by the fact the actual voting totals are filtered for those that get a seat or votes in excess of the threshold. I just re-ran the Sainte-Laguë formula against all parties, and the results are:
National - 53
Labour - 42
Greens - 8
ACT - 4
Maori - 4
Progressives - 1
United Future - 1
New Zealand First Party - 5
The Bill and Ben Party - 1
Kiwi Party - 1Note sure what the threshold vote is, but it is somewhere between 9515 (ALCP) and 12755 (Kiwi Party).
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Basically, Bolger used his last round of media interviews before the '96 election to say National supporters in Wellington Central should give their electorate vote to Richard Prebble in order guarantee ACT being in Parliament. Just to add insult to injury, even if Mark Thomas had won Wellington Central ACT neatly cleared the threshold with 6.1% of the party vote.
Thanks, I really had no idea this had taken place at all. Being undermined by your own leader in a winnable contest must have been a bitter pill to chew on. Cheers to the others for the suggestion of watching Campaign, I'll check it out.
Coromandel - lost.
Although Jeanette did actually live in the electorate; she was no carpetbagger.
I also think we should drop the 5% threshold. If a party can cobble together enough votes to get a seat in parliment, then they should be represented. It will possibly mean more extremists in parliament, though.
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I was on the ground in Wellington Central when we saw our own candidate fucked over quite literally in the last moments of the campaign a few weeks before he went into coalition with someone he'd previously (and coreectly) damned as a racist.
Craig, would it be possible to elaborate on what took place? I was on my OE in 1996 (which is the election to which you refer?), so I have no idea what took place and why.
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We already have one, considering Winston Peters still has the Press Gallery inexplicably fawning over him.
There is an aspect to this which could be a Good Thing. It is quite clear that the Key Government have been spreading FUD about MMP, and that Key would like to move to Supplementary Member.
Winston, with solid centre-right credentials, would make a good foil against this. He would have not truck with SM, and I would expect he would be able to make a strong argument in favour of MMP.
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When Eddie wrote:
I’m putting a lot of credence in the rumours, because they’ve come at us from different sources and I think the party has a viable business case.
I thought maybe it's just a twitter meme.
If Sue and Matt do set up a party, it is possible that the Greens may lose party votes to it. Especially if Sue has a hand in the overall policy platform; there would likely be significant overlap with many Green policies.
Also, some Green voters (and members) arrived in the aftermath of the Alliance implosion of 2002, so perhaps some would lend support to The Alliance 2.0.
Of course, it could always end up as Residents Action Movement (RAM) 2.0.
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The video game definition is interesting:
video game means any video recording that is designed for use wholly or principally as a game
But games are compiled, not recorded which perhaps means codegrinders working on There and Back, The Game are outside the ambit of the amendment.