Comments on: Seat du jour: Paterson

By: mad cow

mad cow — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:40:53 +0000

AJH, they know.

By: AJH

AJH — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:36:16 +0000

mad cow:

Just a heads-up.

A lot of the “Your Rights at Work” signs in East Maitland were broken in the storm last night. Most of them are bent in half. It looks like they didn’t have anything supporting the top half of the sign, so they just folded over.

So now, you can’t even see what is written on them.

Hopefully you can contact someone to help fix them (they just need something to fasten the top half of the signs to the pole).

By: BenC

BenC — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:55:32 +0000

mad cow and others,

just got home from Brissy toinght and saw all of Jim’s posters down the highway in East Maitland – Good stuff. The fake liberal pamphlets in Lindsay may help as well.

By: mad cow

mad cow — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:02:28 +0000

True, Lathan didn’t help but it’s complex.

I went to his meeting in RT and the mood was overwhelmingly positive at that point in time.

However, when the Libs did their dirty little attack job on Lathan, those same people who saw Lathan in person were the first to swing. Its the ‘oo no, you dont seem to be the person I thought I met’ effect. Another reason I want to see the Libs torn to shreds is the way they attacked Lathan. He may well have been fragile, but he was genuinely honest. Now look what we got, a genuinely reformist guy whose afraid to show how reformist he is.

RT is going back over 60 and so is Maitland

By: Midnorthcoast

Midnorthcoast — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:27:19 +0000

Hi Mad Cow,
have a quick look at the AEC site’s results for 2004. Kozary lost Raymond Terrace Central and the none of the other R T booths were above 55. The swing against Kozary was well above the state average. I met here a few times – she was pleasant but I really don’t think she had it. She was very much under the control of Abbib and Company.
The results in Raymond Terrace were a shock to me – this, after all, is where Latham’s bus first stopped and where he publically told off a welfare mum who wanted more pension.
The last time I was in Medowie it was all cow paddocks but if it is now mortgage city and R T returns to form, maybe Big Bob is in trouble despite the ads.

By: mad cow

mad cow — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:58:42 +0000

AJH, Bob’s ‘positive’ ads attempt to own the youth and environment issues. It’s so transparent its laughable. They even talk about clean coal. I heard a couple of teens the other day laughing at that one.

Thankfully the votingrecord people are now running anti Baldwin ads.

Trust me there’s a lot of people here who see him as not a particularly pleasant human being. The reason he’s had a personal vote is not because people find him likeable but because he’s in the government. Now that people see the Libs as losing, Baldwin is losing that vote too.

By: AJH

AJH — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:46:19 +0000

Big Bob has to win this seat. He’s spent a fortune to ensure he does.

There has been wall-to-wall advertising in the local media. On some nights, literally every second ad on TV has been for Baldwin. There’s barely been an ad for Liberal candidates from other local electorates, and there have been very few Labor ads.

Bob’s TV ads have been smart, positive advertising, with actors telling everybody how much Bob has helped them out in a range of areas, from aged care to the environment.

He’s also been advertising heavily on radio. These ads have been (bizarrely) focused on state and local government issues. The most common ad on the radio talked about how he will get rid of Morris Iemma’s on-the-spot fines for certain crimes when elected (to ensure that car thieves and other criminals go before the courts). He has also been pushing for an extensive CCTV camera system throughout Newcastle and the Hunter.

By: mad cow

mad cow — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:09:44 +0000

JamesD if you’re still around, do you get that feeling talking to people or?

And, what about the retirees and wealthy up there?

By: mad cow

mad cow — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:08:16 +0000

Su @30, I never listen to those guys anymore. They aren’t just biased beyond belief they also routinely have talk backs where callers are cut off for having (small l) liberal views and other callers who are allowed to rave on with barely legal racism.

By: mad cow

mad cow — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:05:44 +0000

Finally got my signs up yay!

One with Arneman and above that, a nice bright one with your rights at work on it

Got a bit more feedback today. Yes workchoices is a major issue here and yes Bob and his helpers are scared.