The candidates for the Mt Albert Labour selection to replace Jacinda Ardern are Helen White MP and Camilla Belich MP. The selection meeting is on Saturday 11th March at 10am in the Western Springs School Hall. This is an important electorate for Labour which has held it since 1947 through changing demographics. I have my preference.
One of David Shearer’s campaign volunteers organised this video as a surprise for David on the night of the Mt Albert By-Election in […]
I’ve now seen David Shearer in three Labour selection contests – I was on the panel in Waitakere in 2002 and Mt Albert in 2009, and I was in Wesley Church last Wednesday in Wellington. He’s won two out of three, and been most impressive every time. Had I been a caucus member today, he would have had my vote. This is why.
I ran David Shearer’s campaign headquarters in the 2009 Mt Albert by-election. That gave me unique perspective to get a good hard look […]
Now this is pretty damn funny and just adds to todays absurdities over the waste of money on rugby world cup TV in 2011. Veteran Springbok Tour protester John Minto has found himself at the centre of a new Eden Park storm, with a controversial plan to name a nearby $3 million road after him.
Will the supercity transition authority now want to stop community boards from naming streets?
With every new cock-up or dereliction of duty from this Key government, righties point to the Roy Morgan polls and say ‘seems the […]
Matt McCarten, who has managed more than a few election campaigns, does a good post facto analysis of where National went wrong in […]
Judy Kirk claims she didn’t show at Lee’s election night gathering because Coleman had told there was ‘plenty of support’. John Key didn’t […]
Stolen from the Grassroots Labour site.
I think it’s fair to say that David Shearer’s thumping victory in Mt Albert has been widely viewed as securing Phil Goff’s leadership […]
A string of high-profile stuff-ups. You were too smug and incompetent to deal with them. A disappointment to your boss. Key put a […]
John Key invested a lot of political capital in Melissa Lee. She was his hand picked candidate for the showcase Mt Albert by-election […]
Two of New Zealand’s top political commentators (it pains me to write that) have gone head to head over the Mt Albert result: […]
63% to 17%. That’s not a defeat. That’s a slaughter. An utter humiliation for the Tories. How will the Tories and their fanboys […]
David Shearer has won a bigger share of the vote in Mt Albert than even the great Helen Clark did just 7 months […]
The by-election is over apart from finding out the result. So I’m dragging my tired and abused body to the party to find […]
Today all of the hoardings in Mount Albert go down. Tommorrow the many volunteers from all major and few minor parties will assemble […]
Breaking news from Stuff / DomPost LATEST Richard Worth has resigned as an MP with immediate effect. Dr Worth, who entered Parliament in […]
She’s really trying her best. Even with only one news cycle to go, Melissa Lee is still out there, working hard to get […]
Jarbury is live blogging from backbenchers tonight 🙂
Until now, Melissa Lee’s only remaining selling point in this train wreck of a campaign has been that the party she’s standing for […]
I never seen a government crash so quickly, so hard. The Standard was saying before the election that Key was a two-faced facade […]
The irony is that Melissa Lee’s campaign manager, Mark Thomas, is no stranger to campaigns that start off with a hiss and a […]
Watch as the Tories try to distance Key from Lee. Remember that Lee was Key’s personal choice. Young, pretty, smiley, not too sharp […]
Nothing tops a lamington on the head, but still, here’s Mt Albert candidate Jackson Wood pounding the streets of Wellington to drum up […]
A full 3 weeks before the vote, National candidate Melissa Lee has publicly accepted that she is not going win the Mt Albert by-election. In […]
Duncan Garner had to do a balance piece against David Shearer because he has been at the forefront of covering the implosion of […]
I’m starting to feel a little sorry for Melissa Lee given the punching bag she’s become. True, she’s brought it on herself, but […]
Rumour has it Melissa has been banned from giving formal interviews by National’s leadership but what’s the harm in answering a few questions […]
Protesters calling for the Government to abandon its plans to drive an above-ground motorway through the middle of Mt Albert disrupted the opening […]
From the Herald’s Your Views on Waterview: HammerHead (Wellington City): No they should replace it with a cycleway. This would prevent criminals coming […]
Over at Red Alert, the Labour MPs’ blog, Trevor Mallard points out that nominations for the Mt Albert by-election don’t close until next […]
Melissa Lee’s recent interviews on Q+A, TV1, TV3 and RNZ proved once and for all that being able to read an autocue doesn’t mean […]
And the ticking timebomb goes off. From Not PC on last night’s Mt Albert candidates’ debate: Most of what every mainstream candidate had to […]
As Labour learned to its cost last year you can’t keep on insisting that something is true if the public’s opinion has hardened […]
