Craccum interviews some candidates

September 23rd, 2008 at 9:36 pm by David Farrar

Craccum did some fun interviews with a few candidates this week. Some of the questions they asked are worth repeating here.

Wellington is burning down and you can take only one other MP with you, who would you take and why?

Pete Hodgson (Lab) – Rodney Hide because he’s so full of piss, we could use him to put the fire out.
Pita Sharples (Maori) – Tariana Turia or she’d haunt me if I left her there.

If you can define your life in terms of isms, what would it be?

Aaron Galey-Young (UFNZ) – Antidisestablishmentarianism
Pita Sharples – Dreamism
Oliver Woods (RAM) – Social democratic left pragmatic nationalism
Nikki Kaye (Nat) – Environmentalism, capitalism, compassionism, sportism, wineism

What would be your ultimate campaign song and why?

Pita Sharples – ‘What’s the matter you ah shut appa your face’.
Oliver Woods – ‘Crush ‘em’ by Megadeth

Greatest New Zealander, Garth George or Owen Glenn?

Pete Hodgson – Tim Shadbolt
Pita Sharples – Kupe
Oliver Woods – The Mad Butcher
Nikki Kaye – There are many great kiwis but if I had to choose between the two I would pick Owen Glenn because of his suggestion to hold international volley ball competitions if he became consul to Monaco – that’s gutsy.

If you were Jim Anderton, what would you ban and why?

Pete Hodgson – Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Peter Taskhoff (ACT) – I’d ban toxic politics but then Jim Anderton would be left speechless.
Aaron Galley-Young: Boy racers in public streets.
Pita Sharples – I would ban Jim Anderton.
Oliver Woods – Elderly, useless, conservative politicians.
Nikki Kaye – If I was Jim Anderton I would need a completely new wardrobe and I would ban myself from wearing short skirts.

A pdf of the Craccum article is here – backpage.

Tags: Aaron Galley, Craccum, Humour, Nikki Kaye, Oliver Woods, Pete Hodgson, Peter Taskhoff, Pita Sharples

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13 Responses to “Craccum interviews some candidates”

Buggerlugs (1,609) Says:
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Pete Hodgson (Lab) – Rodney Hide because he’s so full of piss, we could use him to put the fire out.

Ah, once again, Labour fiddling while Rome burns.
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dog_eat_dog (595) Says:
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
So Peter Sharples is secretly a mad greek and Oliver Woods wants us all to rock out. Amazing. Even without Sharples, Auckland Central is going to be an amazing electorate this time around.
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stephen (4,063) Says:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Sharples really should be interviewed more often.
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OECD rank 22 kiwi (2,678) Says:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Charming comment from Pete Hodgson regarding Rodney Hide. I suppose Pete Hodgson has more time on his hands now that he isn’t chief strategist and Mallard will take over the “punch the voters” duties.
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clintheine (1,534) Says:
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Pete can’t be helped. He has always been an angry confused man. Every time he walked past my Campus ACT table at Otgao he would always hiss at me or try and say something nasty which would always sound really lame.

Can anybody imagine him in a job outside of politics? Truely Labour is the home for the unemployable!
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Ryan Sproull (5,584) Says:
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Orgism.

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Goddam it.
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Murray (8,832) Says:
September 24th, 2008 at 8:11 am
I’d ban the whole damn lot of them and get in people who don’t want the job and thereby do the minimum needed to fuction.
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Neil (486) Says:
September 24th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Hodgson is part of that “angry labour” group who are facing self-immolation.
Labor has always been the part of the nasty bully boy mentality, acquiring that from their union heavies in the past.
To say that about Hide,whatever you might think of him, in public, is I think an indicator of his state of mental thinking.
Labor lives in the subterranean Mafiosa caverns right from HC to their still loyal foot soldier. No class, no ray of generosity of spirit.
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Nefarious (533) Says:
September 24th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Murray, I think you have found phool’s employment dream. Money for nothing.
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bearhunter (859) Says:
September 24th, 2008 at 8:48 am
That Nikki Kaye had me going for a minute. “Here we go,” I thought. “A hot sheila who has a sense of humour and enjoys ‘wineism’ – this could be the perfect candidate.” Then she goes and blows the whole thing by mentioning not only Snow Patrol but the Scorpions as well. Guess I’ll have to vote for someone else.
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Murray (8,832) Says:
September 24th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Fails miserably on the not having any interest in having power over other people requirement Nefarious.
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He-Man (270) Says:
September 24th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Environmentalism, capitalism = Oxymoron
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bearhunter (859) Says:
September 24th, 2008 at 9:51 am
He-man – save the slogans for your next basket-weaving class willya?
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