The Greens asked Colin Craig to be a candidate???
This. Simply. Can. Not. Be!
But in 2009, he got politics, in the way that some people get religion. It was the smacking debate that politicised him - and the Government's casual disregard, as he sees it, for the thousands of conservative New Zealanders who marched and voted against a ban on smacking children. He spent nearly $300,000 opposing the law.
Then came the Supercity. Aucklanders didn't want it, he says, but the Government pushed on regardless. So he ran for mayor. He invested $570,000 in the race, coming in third with a creditable 9 per cent of the vote.
By this point, he says, he had thousands of supporters-and they wanted him to lead them. If not to the Auckland Town Hall, then to the Beehive in Wellington. National, Act and the Greens all asked him to stand, he says.
...I'm sorry, what? The Greens asked him to stand as a candidate???
This must be a US State Department style inaudible misquote, why on earth would the Greens ask a homophobic, pro child beating conservative to run for them as a candidate?
Surely I have more chance of being asked to be the leader of the ACT Party than the Greens have of asking Colin Craig to be a candidate?
This must be gotten to the bottom of! I've tweeted Colin and have emailed the journalist for clarification.
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posted by Bomber @ 6:23 pm
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My dad voted for him. He didn't even know he was religious. The Conservative Party flyer was pretty out there imo, but certainly would have a[[ealed to a lot of people. They are full blown climate change deniers (I remain sceptical on this issue, as I am on most things that have EXTREMELY dubious "solutions" i.e. tradeable, leverageable "credits" that will be floated on an exchange), but on the flip side he is against asset sales (as am I).
More to the point what does it stay about Journalists that put that line into a story and make no attempt to verify or even try to follow it up.
What was the old journalist
If you don't know find out if you cannot find out leave out.
I think "he says" is the key. Most christians have "thou shalt not lie your ass off" removed from their bibles.
Also, if you enquire generally about being a Green candidate, you probably get an anodyne letter explaining the process.
A bit off-topic, but was saving this comment for the Nation/Q+A review that didn't happen this week.
The story on The Nation about rural roads getting maintenance funding withdrawn was interesting.. if any party of the left wants to make some ground with the rural vote, a policy of justified road maintenance & cancelling the Roads of National Significance may gain some traction - especially down south (hitting the Nats in their heartland!) Bonus if they find the $$ for the Auckland rail link to gain support there too..
Are we not living in heady times ? The more head I get the better the time I have . Haw , haw , haw I hear you guffaw .
In fact , these are the blurst of times . My suspicion is that the digital-cloud entity that we in fact are has a glitch and that glitch is us lot trying to make sense of it all when there's no sense to be made thus enter the thing that DIGITAL most fears ... the conundrum .
There's a beautiful thing on Boingboing I saw the other day .
It was two spheres overlapping .
One sphere was ' Science ' the other sphere was ' Art ' . The bit that was the egg shaped bit in the middle was ' Wonder ' . I love that . Good ol' Al Einstein said ' The Greatest thing to have is a sense of wonder ' and I immediately wondered what he meant by that . Hahahahaha !
The more we try , they weirder it gets . These are not times to be diagnosed as schizophrenic or psychotic I can fucking tell you that for nothing . Although I should charge a fee . ACC's appointed axe men doctors would . The evil cunts .
I say when you can spend an entire day with out getting dirt under your finger nails ... that's they day you know you're fucked .
That's the day you should know you've become disconnected from reality .
When I read this posting from the wondrous Tumeke-ites I know that ALL is abstract and abstract is fine so long as you can have a good nights sleep and wake up in reality what ever the fuck that is ?
The Green Party ? You gotta be kidding . Dear old Russell Norman rubbing shoulders with a Hater and a Homophobe . Jeeeesus .
@ Nitrium . Dead on the money .
I reckon we all need a holiday .
Lets not take that creeeeeeeepy Colin Craig with us yeah ? He'd frighten off all the nice people and we'd never get served .
And @ Frank ? Where are you man ? I miss your input .
I think he was smoking some "Green" when he had an epiphany ..... if I could be a leader like Graham Capil, hmmmm! The I can beat children hmmmm! Then came round the next day and couldn't believe what had overcome him, so he decided to blame the evilness of his thoughts onto the Greens and those words came out .....and the Greens all asked him to stand, he says. What an absolute f*#kwit!
does Colin Craig know exactly what he stands for or is he just a naive pawn for the corporates,ol russell is a fairly sharp character(no julia you cant speak while we are in session)i dont see him extending anything but a barge poll to crazy colin craig
Unlike other parties, the Greens don't "ask" someone to stand as a candidate. Those who are eligible (including a membership duration criterion)and seek candidacy go through a rigorous selection process involving a number of levels of party decision making and membership consultation.
Unlike other parties, the Greens don't "ask" someone to stand as a candidate. Those who are eligible (including a membership duration criterion)and seek candidacy go through a rigorous selection process involving a number of levels of party decision making and membership consultation.
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