Campaign Launched!
March 31st, 2005 at 8:45 am by David FarrarWow, last night was great. Turnout exceeded expectations with over 300 people there. Was great to see so many from blog-land there, and also the huge number of students and younger voters.
The movie was great. I laughed even more than when I first saw it in 1997. Everyone loved the movie, and it really should be a compulsory part of political science lectures at universities.
They are eyebrows, not catapillas!
Mark’s speech (which I have included below) hit all the right spots and Don gave one of the best off the cff speeches I have seen – it really had people fizzing. Yes of course I am biased, but I did have heaps of people say it was a great event.
Afterwards a couple of dozen of the younger attendees (which I include myself as 
went to a fine local drinking establishment, which was very enjoyable.
The infamous Hannah and friends!
Was a real pleasure to meet the talented Hayley Wain, to whom I had to humbly admit she beat the Councillors in her Ward whom I was helping with their re-election campaign. A very nice person.
Thanks again to all those who turned up, and a bigger thanks to those who made it happen. Oh yeah and thanks Mark for being a great candidate
Speech below:
SPEECH FOR CAMPAIGN LAUNCH
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March 31st, 2005 at 10:50 am
Awesome speech, wish I was there to see it. All very patrioic – that is what is missing in the current administration. Maybe that could be the centre of Don’s next speech.
Vote:March 31st, 2005 at 11:03 am
I echo those sentiments. An excellent speech, very moving. I wish I could have been there to see it.
Vote:March 31st, 2005 at 1:35 pm
The movie was hilarious – all the candidates and workers were brilliant. I thought the movie caught the tantys, tears and posturing of all the candidates well.
Had to laugh at Mark Thomas’ decision to fax a release saying ‘Bolger will back me’ only hours before he refused to.
Thanks to the team for organising a great night.
Vote:March 31st, 2005 at 2:52 pm
Where are the huge number of students and young people in the photo ?
Vote:March 31st, 2005 at 3:32 pm
The crowd was really young, of course most of the young ones were sitting near the back, not that one photo represents a whole crowd anyway. If the campaign goes as well as the launch it will be magic
Vote:March 31st, 2005 at 3:36 pm
We were up the back mostly. I suppose we could have assigned seats by race and age to get a nice picturesque mix for the camera. But wait, this isn’t the Labour Party!
Vote:March 31st, 2005 at 3:45 pm
The photo is not of the whole audience, but just the middle section. Students never sit near the front of the middle. Trust me there were plenty there as I went drinking with them afterwards. Hmmn maybe I was just seeing double
Vote:March 31st, 2005 at 10:49 pm
My spies (of whom there were several) give me an interesting insight into the event. All points noted.
Vote:March 31st, 2005 at 11:22 pm
Happy to have taken their $20
Vote:April 4th, 2005 at 4:47 pm
‘awesome speech’…’excellent speech’… ahh… how do you figure that? Merely cos it has some content that’s ‘patrioic’ [sic]…?
Only thing interesting about it is the introduction: the admission of no longer being ‘as’ selfish. I appreciate the honest implication of continued selfishness. The amount of implication from that point on tends to end up outweighing the honesty, with simply lashings of generalisations, what!?
I like, for example, the part that goes: “And we
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