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[melwil]

So I wrote to John Cherry the Democrat senator up for reelection in Queensland. I wanted confirmation on the Democrats/Family First preferences. He's a gem of an email writer, this guy. Let me offer some examples:

"Dear Melinda"

Okay, I'm so not voting for this guys now. He can't even spell my name right! I can't believe I double checked how to spell his last name.

"I doubt very much if our preferences will be allocated in this election
(as I expect to win the last seat)."

Cough. Splutter. Cough. Arrogant much?

He goes on to tell me that their leader would be the first Aboriginal women elected if she won. I'm all for women in government. I'm all for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in government. But that doesn't mean we should vote for any old person just because they meet those criteria! It would be like voting me into parliment just because I'm young and female and they need more young females in parliment.

John goes on

"If you don't like this preference deal (which we were forced into to counterweight the Labor/Greens alliance), you have the option of allocating your own preferences by voting below the line in the Senate."

I do fill in all my preferences, but so many people run for the senate these days, that numbering all the boxes leads for the possibility of misnumbering, and therefore rendering a vote invalid. And one year, apparently the senate paper for New South Wales was too big to fit in the booth.

Comments

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

So ... Melinda. Is it too late for me to run for the Senate as an independent? I have a number of squid related policies which I'm sure you'd be very interested in. Not that it matters, since I plan to win.

[melwil.livejournal.com]

The Family First party would want you to pay to censor your squid porn . . .

I wrote back and called him arrogant and lazy. I love the power of email.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Heee! Has he responded yet?

Bryn sent an abusive email to the Family First party.

I haven't abused any politicians lately, but I did make slashy remarks to the ALP candidate for Longman. He laughed. He was hot.

[melwil.livejournal.com]

Beckett!

Mal Brough (I wonder how many people know that Mal Brough is Rob Brough's brother. Family Feud Rob Brough) tried to say that he couldn't represent the peple of Longman becuase he didn't have a family.

I'm waiting for a response

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

WHAT? He has parents and siblings. And a fiancee. And friends. Mal Brough is just an asshole. (Ask my mother...)

[melwil.livejournal.com]

Hey, did you see the world's nicest words in the paper today?

Tony Abbott is in danger of losing his seat.

[cerulgalactus.livejournal.com]

The worlds nicest words?

Someone wrote poopyhead?

For shame.

[melwil.livejournal.com]

That was in Frances Whiting's column

[cerulgalactus.livejournal.com]

She's right - them is fightin' words.

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

Really????
Where is this wonderful information?

Pity I can't get Ruddock out of mine :(

And yes, the tablecloth senate paper. I think that was at state level and they changed some of the rules after that.

[shimmiwyld.livejournal.com]

It was strange for the NSW election. They had two sheets. The smallest sheet had this HUGE hole in the box so you could have a handful of forms and stuff them in at once but the BIG sheet you're talking about...
Oh my.
You had to fold it a hundred times and have 10 people help you stuff it in the itty bitty hole it had. Was murder!