There is a by-election next week that, unforunately I am ineligable to vote in – not living in the elctorate and all. But if I did my ornage tick would go to one man, and one man only. Julian Pistorius.
Why Julian? Because there is no reason to vote for any of the others. Contrary to being “the best of a bad bunch”, Julian is the only good man in a bad bunch. Melissa Lee doesn’t want the job, she’s in the race to come second. And she’s already an MP, as is Russel Norman and John Boscawen. John was ACT’s candidate for my electorate in the General Election and despite his sterling work fighting the EFA has succumbed to St Johnnysburg and was last seen voting for the ridiculous banning of gang patches.
Concentrating on the two major parties, you wouldn’t think of voting for Labour after their nine year failure to, by their own standards, get us back in the top half of the OECD.
National also are if best a disappointment and at worst dishonest after their cancelling of promised tax cuts, aforementioned gang patch legislation and überstadt. I said to a friend during the last election campaign that Labour would fair if they attacked John Key, and that a far better idea for them would be to attack the people behind him like the odious Nick Smith who when campaigning was happy to complain about “Nanny State” (a Libertarianz term he does not have the mana to use) bossing us on water pressure, but when in power took of the transparent mask to suggest nannying our grocery shopping with a tax on plastic bags.
Our man Julian will have none of this. He could find enough chaff in the budget to give you a tax cut of which dreams are made. Speaking locally he would also have the common courtesy to ask you first to see if he would like to put a motorway through where your house now sits – and most importantly would respect your wishes if you answered no.
But what better way is there to promote Mr Pistorius than with the man himself…
When you think about it there really is no other choice. Read his Blog, join the Facebook group, enlighten yourselves further with the offerings below from my Libertarian colleagues Scott and Peter, and most importantly Vote Pistorius!
Peter’s opening salvo.
Scott’s opening salvo.
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