Verity Firth vs Rochelle Porteous
I got off the rails a bit with the NSW election project, but all is forgiven now as we head into the final 25 days of the circus. I was mistaken earlier in thinking that I resided in the district of Drummoyne – after the recent redistribution, the electoral office hasn’t updated their maps, and I am in fact located in the slightly-more-interesting seat of Balman.
The last sitting member of which was one Dawn Fraser.
The district of Balmain was abolished in 1991 to form the all-new district of Port Jackson, which was in turn abolished to make way for the all-new district of Balmain. Make up your bloody minds. No wonder 25% of the people casting absentee votes at elections have no idea what district they are enrolled in.
Anyway, back to the politics.
Ms Fraser retired from politics after Balmain was abolished, and the new seat of Port Jackson was won and held by Sandra Nori for 16 years. With her retirement, and the subsequent name change, the seat is up for grabs.
Candidate #1 is Verity Firth, current City of Sydney councillor. Now the City of Sydney council has a lot of ugly people on it, but Verity really takes the cake here. Plus, she’s a lawyer and a member of the NSW Labor Party. I think she’s gonna struggle to get my vote.
Candidate #2 is Rochelle Porteous, and she is no portrait either. She is a councillor on Leichhardt Council, and is married to an Italian man, which will probably get a lot of the Haberfield/Leichhardt vote. Rochelle needs a 7% swing to become the first NSW Greens lower house member.
Candidate #3 is Peter Shmigel, a loud-mouthed New Yorker who is the ugliest of the three front-runners. His policies include criticising the Labor Party, and putting up posters of himself all around town. On the plus side, he’s a supporter of cyclists in the area.
Now, I’ve been running the numbers from the last election, and I have noticed an unusual phenomenon. 89% of electors who put the Libs above either Labor or the Greens failed to distribute their preferences. That is 8,415 Liberal votes which ended up in the bin, in an election which was won by 5,037 votes. Given that of the Lib voters who did nominate further preferences on their ballot paper, 84% gave their preference to the Greens, all Rochelle needs to do to win the election is to teach Liberal votes how the preferential system works!
There’s still hope for a hung parliament.
February 27, 2007 11:45 am 3 Comments
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By Joel
, February 28, 2007 @ 11:14 am
Problem is, stu, those Lib voters who didn’t preference Greens would rather see Labor in government than a Greens representative. Remember what has been said – they’re watermelons, and you can’t trust a red or a pinko.
By foster the imposter
, February 28, 2007 @ 1:25 pm
NOOOOOOOO LIBERALS!!! WO-MAN!!!!
By Luke McKee
, May 10, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
I had a run-in with Verity. I asked who to forward on a letter about a serious complaint about a cop, who turned out to be a lesbian, who perverted the course of justice to stop a lesbian acquaintance that lives 120 metres away from her house going to jail for making a false statement verified by CCTV, in comparison to the lesbian’s cops notebook. The Cops goalseeked the time line, interfered with non homosexual witnesses, and her collegues destroyed evidence and got caught out doing perjery.
It’s about the most serious complaint you can have against a Police officer, sort of dealing drugs, or other violent crimes. She refused to even forward the letter to the Police Minister, or the Police as per the Police Act. I’m still waiting for her reply after 4 months.
It turns out because the complaint was against a female lesbian cop (sworn to be under oath by a detective – warrant online), and a lesbian neighbour (who got done for DV on a girl) she didn’t want to do it. Why? Because she’s the Office for [The Status of] Women, who just introduced the new rape laws.
For info on it check this out:
http://forum.dadsontheair.com/viewtopic.php?t=29408
I actually pulled down her rivals placards because im 2.1 meters tall, and I’m sure I wasn’t the ony one, if only I had done my homework sooner like you did! Good on you! State labour sold me out, and I never voted for anyone else (or never will thanks to how much I’ve been screwed over).
Hopefully I can be a guru for a fringe party in the next weekend so I can do some letter box drops.
I know exactly where too…