by frog
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons announces that she will step down as co-leader this year and invites the party membership to get involved in our democratic process to elect the next co-leader.
Published in Justice & Democracy | Video by frog on Mon, February 23rd, 2009
Tags: Jeanette Fitzsimons, Parliament, politics
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
yah. Provide your reasons please. One would think...
Beautiful speech.
Thanks, frog, for posting so promptly.
Arohanui to Jeanette, Sue and Meyt.
Kia kaha tatou katoa, waahine toa!
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Promptly? I was two hours late! I was chewing my webbed feet! But thanks. It was rather easy with such a good subject.
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Well, then I was easy to impress, having had a spell of pain & bad sleep that knocked me out for most of the day.
(although I came looking to see what was in public view asap when I got up!)
Your cover here is accurate and timely, compared to what has been reported (and regurgitated by those with a POV to push) on other media fora.
Good to have a source to refer ppl to when they want to know the true story!
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Isn’t democracy a wonderful thing? Like the US presidential primary system, it means a stronger party and much more buy in when the person is eventually chosen. After all, the party has literally spoken.
I’d support either with acclamation.
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It will be a stronger party:
a) as long as there isn’t a divisive fight for the position, though in my un-learned opinion it doesn’t seem likely;
b) the non-Green party members who constitute the bulk of Green voters react favourably to the newcomer’s leadership, else its <5% for the Greens!
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You mean the voters?
I think the scenario you describe is really not that likely. If we can grow quite a bit during an election dominated by the National Party after having been in a formal arrangement with an unpopular Labour Government, you’d think we’re probably here to stay.
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>>you’d think we’re probably here to stay
I’d take a close look at the size of the group who swung away from Labour to vote Green if I were you.
They’ll be back to the Labour fold in 2011, because Labour will move left to counter Nationals centerist positioning…..
What happens next, Jim Ander….erm Greens?
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Going left alone won’t do it for Labour, and certainly not under Phil Goff. I’m not worried.
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Not to mention there’s a lot more to us than just “left-of-labour.” Heard about that wellington recycling flip-flop? Green is the new black at the moment.
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>>certainly not under Phil Goff
I think G(off) is highly unlikely to make the 2011 election as leader.
>>Heard about that wellington recycling flip-flop?
That has little to do with green, and a lot to do with perceived “free” disposal. I use two of those bins each week, and couldn’t care less about recycling.
Recycling will be user-pays regardless, because the return doesn’t cover the costs. That money has to come from somewhere. It’s just a question of how it gets collected.
Rate rise, probably.
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Ari, the Greens *might* do well with National in government…in my student days I saw a few correlations with Reagan and Bush 1 getting into power and sudden rises in popularity/membership of environmental groups. Harder to say with a political party though, especially a ‘multi-issue’ one..
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