So my Supercity choices are narrowing by the day.
Today I learn that the innocuous-sounding Bill Daly, who is running for election for Council in my ward, and whose official list of campaign issues is somewhat eccentric, is in fact a hardcore Holocaust denier.
If you are in the Waitakere Ward, don't vote for this guy.
(I know I said a few posts ago that I'd never tell you who to vote for, but I make an exception for the likes of Mr Daly.)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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Scott, you should meet my Wife's step grand father, a Palestinian... We have had some good arguments over this matter, He is firmly of the opinion that yes Some people died but no where as many as we would be lead to believe.
ReplyDeleteHe has books entitled "The jewish Problem" and the "American and Jewish Problem"
The hatred and intolerence demonstrated by an otherwise "nornmal" person is stunning.
No matter what facts you throw at him , all he says is " What about the Holocaust the Palestinians have suffered"
Scott, you're not telling people who to vote for. You're telling them who not to vote for.
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Saying "don't vote for this guy" does feel like I'm telling folk to vote for other people (i.e anyone but him).
ReplyDeleteBut I like the way you think. We may make a lawyer out of you yet.
Thanks for the heads-up. At this stage I'm probably going to vote for Sandra Coney and Penny Hulse.
ReplyDeleteI've heard decent things about Sandra Coney, but to be honest my main reason is her work on the "unfortunate experiment". When I took Health Care Law (a few years ago now), that expose was the catalyst for the patient-centric legal health model we enjoy today. Sure, it's a long time ago now and not the most cogent reason for voting, but this is local body politics - how does cogent am I expected to be?
I've had Penny Hulse recommended to me by a current local body politician who I very much respect (and who is not running for council herself). Apparently, Hulse falls on the progressive side of the spectrum and is the most likely candidate to maintain an eco-centric, West Auckland identity on council. I was also impressed with the work she did in trenching the New Lynn railway - a great move which has greatly improved my commute!
Would be interested in hearing your final voting choices.
*how cogent am I expected to be?
ReplyDeleteOh, the irony...
I'm also voting for Coney for Council, and have heard good things about her from others. I've also heard positive things about Paul Walbran, so it's either him or Hulse (who I've also heard good things about) for my second ward vote.
ReplyDeleteAm going with Brown for Mayor. But still undecided on the DHB and local board. Will sit down and sort out my voting choices this weekend.
Thanks for the plug Scott. I finally sent off a special vote yesterday, and went for Brown, Coney, and Walbran. I was tempted briefly to cast a vote for the Communist League's Annalucia Vermont for mayor, simply because she does seem to want discuss different ways of organising our society, but the cult-like features of her group and visceral fear of John Banks put me off. Penny Bright, who is being touted along with Vermont as a 'hard left' candidate, seems to me to have drifted into the same sort of conspiratorial worldview as Bill Daly in recent years, thanks to her association with the oddballs who publish Uncensored magazine. She attended a 9/11 denial meeting last year, thinks global warming is a gambit of the New World Order, and came out swinging for the Holocaust deniers who publish Uncensored in this thread at my blog last year: http://readingthemaps.blogspot.com/2009/03/anti-semites-dont-deserve-our-war.html
ReplyDeleteBrown doesn't look so bad, all of a sudden...