Campaign Archive

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  Key’s potential coalition dilemma - by frog

  
  
  
  By the looks of the polls John Key might be talking to Rodney Hide about the environment next week. That’s certainly how Hide is positioning himself in the lead up to tomorrow’s vote. John, you gotta get the country out of this Emissions Trading Scam. Hide and his party are the only remaining confirmed climate [...] read more
  November 7, 2008 1:22 pm - 35 Comments
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  Four polls in 12 hours - by frog

  
  
  
  Fairfax Nielson has the Greens up to 8 percent, the Herald Digipoll up to 5.8 percent, TVNZ up to 9 percent, and TV3 also up to 9 percent. Improvements in four out of four ain’t bad.  I don’t know if Roy Morgan is also coming out today.  I assume so. It’s last result was 11.5 [...] read more
  November 7, 2008 7:01 am - 29 Comments
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  The ideas are free and plentiful – you just need to ask - by frog

  
  
  
  An interesting discussion from the Otago Daily Times’ Dene Mackenzie – who was lunching with Jeanette and Australian Green Leader Bob Brown yesterday: Senator Brown said the injection of new ideas in politics around the world was coming from the Greens and there was never a time when the Greens were more needed than 2008 [...] read more
  November 6, 2008 9:26 pm - 9 Comments
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  Garth George accidentally endorses MMP - by frog

  
  
  
  Does anyone understand Garth George in the Herald today? He concludes: As for me, both my ticks on Saturday will go to National. Thus do I vote against both Labour and MMP. Ok, so no surprise he’s not fond of MMP, except that he notes earlier: The Greens have earned a presence in Parliament… And: [...] read more
  November 6, 2008 11:13 am - 3 Comments
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  19 more votes per electorate - by frog

  
  
  
  It’s a bit distressing to see the blog No Minister crossing its fingers for bad weather in the hope that we’ll get a low voter turn out.  I assume it’s being facetious, but everyone, no matter what our political leanings, should want as many people as possible participating in the election this Saturday.  If you [...] read more
  November 6, 2008 10:35 am - 31 Comments
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  Green Party campaign closing broadcast - by frog

  
  
  
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  November 5, 2008 4:51 pm - 15 Comments
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  Good economics advice - by frog

  
  
  
  Some people mistakenly get a bit down on the standard and quality of education these days.  But when it comes to knowing the right place to get the best answer it seems the Auckland University economics students Jeanette met yesterday are pretty clued up: Just before she leaves, she asks Steven if there’s anything he [...] read more
  November 5, 2008 1:37 pm - 4 Comments
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  Not even Act supporters like Rodney’s yellow hide - by frog

  
  
  
  Ha ha. Inquiries by The Dominion Post, the Electoral Commission revealed yesterday that the man who complained about Mr Hide’s jacket was an ACT supporter – 21-year-old Canterbury Commerce student Andy Moore. No one cares about Act so they have to complain about themselves. read more
  November 5, 2008 10:50 am - 12 Comments
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  Jeanette and Russel’s bloopers tape - by frog

  
  
  
  Here are some of the out-takes from the filming for the Green Party campaign closing broadcast for the 2008 election: read more
  November 4, 2008 4:49 pm - 84 Comments
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  Get out of his way quick! - by frog

  
  
  
  Jeanette noticed something in the story about Winston’s failed ambush that I had missed.  Apparently Key’s parting present to the people of Tauranga was the promise of a four lane highway through their town: First stop, the Waikato ($750 million), now Tauranga ($100 million). If Key announced his schedule, towns would at least have a chance to cancel [...] read more
  November 4, 2008 3:49 pm - 10 Comments
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  Hammed ambush - by frog

  
  
  
  Act failed to copy our ads and now Winston failed to copy Jeanette’s shopping mall ambush of John Key. According to Colin Espiner: Mr Key was due in the Tauranga suburb of Greerton for a walkabout at 11.30am but left his supporters standing on the sidewalk after discovering Mr Peters planned an ambush. Key’s minders [...] read more
  November 4, 2008 2:35 pm - 34 Comments
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  A ship leaving a sinking rat? - by frog

  
  
  
  Russel’s reiteration of the Greens long-standing position on the Winston Peters scandals – that the Greens would probably not be able to sit at a cabinet table with Peters unless everything was cleared up – seems to have got a lot more media coverage this time around than previously. And Helen Clark seems to have [...] read more
  November 4, 2008 10:11 am - 7 Comments
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  More favourite billboards - by frog

  
  
  
  Here’s a few more of my favourites from the voteforus.co.nz design your own billboard site.  First up, well why wouldn’t you vote for this: Several witty people kept submitting pictures of watermelons, but I like this one better: What’s going on in this one?  Are they looking in each other’s eyes or breaking up? I [...] read more
  November 3, 2008 3:48 pm - 7 Comments
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  Planet casts early vote for Greens - by frog

  
  
  
  Al Mansell, an independent candidate for Wellington Central, sent me this video clip from neighbouring Miramar: read more
  November 3, 2008 12:25 pm - 5 Comments
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  An endorsement - by frog

  
  
  
  Here’s one of my favourite videos of the campaign so far: read more
  November 3, 2008 11:54 am - 6 Comments
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  A few quotes - by frog

  
  
  
  John Ansell here on Frogblog referring to Jeanette’s ranking as one of NZ’s hottest politicians: ‘Not hot, but maybe globally warm.’ Nine year old Aotea Parata who stars with Aila Morgan-Guthrie on the Green Party billboard of the tyre swing talking about whether he’ll be voting Maori Party or Green Party (or something different):  ’Just [...] read more
  November 3, 2008 10:07 am - 24 Comments
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  Act’s advertising rip-off - by frog

  
  
  
  I haven’t yet seen the Act rip off of the Green Party Aila television ad but I reckon it’s a bit of a compliment from what I’ve heard.  Last election, devoid of ideas, Act just copied National’s much talked about iwi/kiwi billboard style. And it seems this election this time they are again happy to [...] read more
  November 2, 2008 7:50 am - 151 Comments
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  Kevin Hague’s growing support on the Coast - by frog

  
  
  
  Toad at g.blog follows up on my post yesterday about the Greens’ strong Nelson poll with news from the West Coast-Tasman electorate: Well, now the Nelson Mail have published a poll for the West Coast – Tasman electorate. And the Greens are polling even better there – 13.7% (including 27% in Golden Bay). The Greens’ [...] read more
  October 31, 2008 3:41 pm - 35 Comments
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  Jeanette launches ambush in Paraparaumu - by frog

  
  
  
  We had been getting stories from the provinces that National MPs were telling voters that they wanted to pull out of Kyoto or that they wanted to exempt farmers from agriculture.  So Jeanette decided to find out for herself what the story was by leaping out from a coffee bar as John Key passed by [...] read more
  October 30, 2008 5:03 pm - 65 Comments
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  Ken Graham’s Green history - by frog

  
  
  
  Christchurch’s Ken Graham gets a good write up in this morning’s Herald as a potential new Green MP.  The article discusses his involvement in developing the intellectual framework behind New Zealand’s nuclear free policy in the 1980s: “I wrote an article that Carl Sagan picked up, basically saying it was a misperception that our nuclear [...] read more
  October 30, 2008 3:31 pm - 11 Comments