Posts by Alfie
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A report last week quoted NZME CEO Jane Hastings as saying she "would not be stepping down from her position as leader of NZME". This week she resigned and is being replaced by the company's chief financial officer, Michael Boggs.
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Hard News: The flagging referendum, in reply to BenWilson,
I mean seriously, if our democracy were organized so that there was a referendum for everything, it wouldn’t be long before people saw the sense in not voting on trivial matters they don’t give a shit about.
You're talking about Switzerland Ben -- they have nine scheduled this year. Some referenda are mandatory, others optional. Turnout averages around 50% in the latter.
I can't agree with your I'm far too busy, let other people decide attitude, but hey... each to his own.
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Oh dear. Troll alert!
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Hard News: The unstable Supercity, in reply to Moz,
Caution, link leads to site run by idiots. “ad-blocker detected, piss off”.
Seconded. Went there, found that and pissed off.
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Hard News: It's worse than you think, in reply to Brent Jackson,
I doubt the powers that be would allow that. After all, has Mike Sabin's case been heard yet?
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Richard Mayes,
‘…lifted it straight from the GOP’
Did we? News to me…
The term was first coined by a neoconservatist back in 2003. Which suggests it was hardly original five years later.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Queenstown tonight…
That meeting may be quite interesting. There’s a minor scandal brewing involving Bill English’s heir apparent, child politician and former tobacco lobbyist Todd Barclay. His electorate secretaries in Queenstown and Gore both resigned within days of each other, followed quickly by the chairman of the Clutha-Southland electorate.
While Nat HQ was trotting out the “nothing to see here” line citing “employment issues”, Barclay released the former Queenstown-staffer’s resignation letter to the media. As soon as he had apologised for that snafu, allegations emerged that Barclay had also made secret recordings of his staff.
One suspects that he may have taken the Nats’ mass surveillance plans too literally.
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McCully has admitted that the $11.5m Saudi sheep bribe has risen by a further $280,000 to pay for a project manager for eighteen months.
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Meanwhile, the Hendo/Thorne roadshow continues its inevitable run... this week featuring a digger, a large trench and claims of firearms being involved.
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Hard News: What you lookin' at?, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Like this?
Almost, but more like this.
