Mt Albert – the left and the right
All the best to all candidates, and thank you to Julie Anne Genter and Jacinda Ardern for showing us all such a model of cooperation.
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Morgan in Mt Albert
Via NewsHub: Gareth Morgan and his party to contest Mt Albert by-election?
Mt Albert – a friendly by-election
Campaigning is underway in Mt Albert. Looks like it will be a very different kind of by election.
Julie Anne Genter to stand in Mt Albert by-election
Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter will be standing in the Mount Albert by-election to be held on 25 February
Nats not contesting Mt Albert
Bill’s National is out of steam already.
Leadership and loyalty
Key ran out on failed candidate Mike Osborne in Northland, just like he ran out on Melissa Lee in Mt Albert.
Know when to fold ’em
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 […]
History repeats for Mark Thomas
The irony is that Melissa Lee’s campaign manager, Mark Thomas, is no stranger to campaigns that start off with a hiss and a […]
Melissa Lee concedes in Mt Albert
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 […]
Kiwibob-each-way on Melissa’s video
Interesting comment on Melissa from Kiwiblog’s Farrar: There is also the issue of the video produced by her before the election, placed on […]
I can see South Auckland from my house! An interview with Melissa Lee
Did your company use NZ On Air money to produce a National Party promotional video? Look, I didn’t keep records of who was […]
Lee down, under; about to be reborn
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 […]
Joyce Trashes Mt Albert
Yesterday the long wait for a decision on the Waterview Connection somewhat ended. The full picture will become more obvious today, once NZTA […]
Disconnect
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 […]
Dogwhistlin’
Interesting article in the Herald today. It concentrates on a conversation between Melissa Lee and an old racist pharmacist from Mt Albert who […]
The interesting selection
The National selection in Mount Albert will be going down to the wire with the inevitable split between the locals and the regional/national […]
Focused on what matters
So John Key has set his taxpayer paid researchers onto David Shearer. The best they can come up with is that 11 years ago […]