[pf] we're really Serious about politics, in NZ!

· If the Greens hadn't revived (from the Values Party since 1972), I would have been voting for the McGillicuddy Serious Party by now.

I asked Mark whether I could on-post this.  D.
(P.S. BoP = Bay of Plenty, on the NE of the North island of NZ.)

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From: "Mark Servian" <mark@oldfarm.co.nz>
To: "David MacClement" <davd@ihug.co.nz>
Subject: Re: McGreens
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:42:31 +1300

fine with me, don't think a web version exists, may want to mention that Karen [Summerhays] was elected to Environment BoP, making her the first ex-McGSP candidate (Nandor [Tanczos] never actually stood for the McGSP, he was just a regular kilt-wearing loony) to get elected to anything.


Mark

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fyi
Was in the Waikato This Week paper.  Danna
  

From: Mark Servian [mailto:mark@oldfarm.co.nz]
Sent: Monday, 15 October 2001 7:47 p.m.

Mark Servian 30 September, 2001 McGreens

Two years after the final curtain for the McGillicuddy Serious Party, former candidates are running in the local body elections for the Green Party.

Barry Bryant is running for Hamilton's South Ward and Metiria Turei is running for the Auckland Mayoralty.

"I work for Nandor," says Mr. Bryant, the dreadlocked MP's Hamilton office manager, "and Nandor is a McGillicuddy, so it makes sense."

Karen Summerhays, also a “McGreen”, is running as an independent for Environment BoP, while other McGillicuddies are running non-aligned campaigns in Nelson and on Stewart Island. 

The move to the Greens has been made by a number of McGillicuddies and more are likely to stand for their new party in future.

"The Greens respect McGillicuddies [as effective activists] so that's probably why we're being attracted to it," says Mr. Bryant.

"The McGillicuddy Serious Party challenged the way the system is set up and so do the Greens," says Ms Turei.

"Despite appearances they both have the wherewithal to get things done," says Mr. Bryant. 

"The McGillicuddies have taught me not to take myself too seriously," says Ms Turei, "and that if you can fire people's imagination [you] engage them successfully." 

Metiria Turei, 31, is an Auckland lawyer and Co-President of Te Hunga Roia Maori o Aotearoa - the New Zealand Maori Lawyers Society. 

Turei ran for the McGSP in New Lynn in 1993 and as a List candidate in 1999, she also ran for the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party in 1996. 

In addition to his parliamentary office role, 29-year-old Barry Bryant is a company director and beneficiary advocate. 

Bryant was the McGSP candidate in North Shore in 1993, for the Christchurch Mayoralty in 1995 and on the List in 1996 and 1999.


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