Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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I have to rely on the burghers of Hobson ward to return Richard Simpson to council when I'd cheerfully vote for him if I had the chance. STV would have been a good thing.
And I had to rely on the voters of the Lambton Ward to elect my favoured candidate at the last Wellington Council election - STV doesn't solve this problem (unless you enjoyed the "rank the following 40 names" election at large of the last DHB elections).
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Bob - season three of The Wire also aired late night on TV2 - and, unfortunately, will not be released in R4 at all...
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This may please some - HBO has just announced a second season of Flight of the Conchords.
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Ben - thankfully, if you click through on the link to Google video, it will take you through and you'll find links to the other two episodes.
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No point now.
There is always a point to watching Letterman.
Will it float?
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Don - as I understand it, two of the EB's pamphlets were tainted with some sort of illegality - both to do with improper authorisation statements (one which carried an address which was neither the residential or business address of the person authorising it, and one which the person responsible was also required to obtain permission from National - because it promoted them implicitly - but did not).
The other pamphlets were lawful, the massive budget was lawful, the attack on the Greens was lawful, the absence of disclosure was lawful, etc. These - the major problems people identify with the campaign of the EB businessmen - were not illegal, so I think it fair to say that "for the most part" the campaign was lawful.
As for Labour - whilst the use of the money (i.e. the subject of the Auditor-General's report) is debatable, there is basically nothing that can be said to argue that the pledge card is not attributable as an election expense. The advice on this from the Chief Electoral Officer to Labour approximately 10 (?) days before the election was unequivocal and is unassailable. You may recall that Labour agreed with the CEO at that time that it was attributable, and promised to include it in their return. Including this cost pushes Labour over their $2.38m limit.
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AA Directions? Naturally - isn't it our biggest circulation magazine.
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I was pleasantly surprised by The Class yesterday - though it only lasts a season.
And don't forget that Lost Jr. heads straight into its second season this afternoon:)
And yet again, with the first series of Who do you think you are? thought good, TV One saw fit to air it at around 10am weekdays during the (I think summer) holidays...
So you all watched OF last week, huh? I stayed away in protest ... you killed Aurora boooo, hiss etc.
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Stephen - he made those comments following an unsuccessful police prosecution.
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In reply to Rob
It's finger ling-ling good!