Voting open for Kiwiblog Awards
December 11th, 2012 at 6:45 am by David FarrarVoting is now open via the blog polls in the sidebar for the 2012 Kiwiblog Awards. Any names that got more than one nomination were included. As no person (except mikenmild) got nominated more than once for Public Servant of the Year, no voting for that category this year.
The nominees are:
Press Gallery Journalist of the Year
- John Armstrong
- Patrick Gower
- Rodney Hide
- Fran O’Sullivan
Rodney is not technically press gallery but he writes on politics so have allowed the nomination. Likewise Fran is a business columnist but again often writes on politics.
Minor Party MP of the Year
- Peter Dunne
- Kevine Hague
- Julie-Anne Genter
- Russel Norman
- Winston Peters
National MP of the Year
- Chris Finlayson
- Steven Joyce
- John Key
- Tony Ryall
Labour MP of the Year
- David Cunliffe
- Chris Hipkins
- Rajen Prasad
- Louisa Wall
MP of the Year
- Steven Joyce
- Russel Norman
- Tony Ryall
Related posts:
- Voting now open for 2010 Kiwiblog Awards
- 2012 Kiwiblog Awards
- Voting now open in Kiwiblog Awards
- 2009 Kiwiblog Awards
December 11th, 2012 at 6:49 am
In a couple of cases it would be nice to have the option None.
Vote:Tony Ryall gets my vote as MP of the Year. Key wins hands down the Failure of the Year award.
December 11th, 2012 at 6:58 am
Patrick Gower
Russel Norman
Steven Joyce
David Cunliffe
Russel Norman
Vote:December 11th, 2012 at 7:19 am
Don’t forget that for your votes to count, you need to also vote in the blogpolls in the sidebar. Interesting to see the comments though.
Vote:December 11th, 2012 at 7:22 am
No vote
Julie-Anne Genter
Chris Finlayson
Chris Hipkins
No vote
Pity about public servant of the year. And I did nominate Paul McGill, the Fire Service guy who had the guts to apologise for failures in the CTV building rescue.
Vote:December 11th, 2012 at 7:49 am
I think “None” needs to be an option in all categories. Of the MPs, there are none that I want to endorse as doing a good job. They are all trying to take away our freedom, bit by bit.
Vote:December 11th, 2012 at 7:59 am
Patrick Gower
Russel Norman
Chris Finlayson
Chris Hipkins ( Rajen Prasad, hahahahaha)
Russel Norman
Vote:December 11th, 2012 at 8:05 am
@mikey,
You take Public Servant of the Year award by default. Congratulations.
@dave
How can you laugh at Rajen? It was only as result of a concerted push by Shearer supporters in the past few days that he was overtaken in second place for the Kiwiblog next Labour leader poll. The man clearly has strong support a ingest the learned KB readers.
Vote:December 11th, 2012 at 8:42 am
“I think “None” needs to be an option in all categories.”
I agree, except for the Labour MP category where this option would be redundant.
Vote:December 11th, 2012 at 9:17 am
Press Gallery Journalist of the Year
Patrick Gower
Minor Party MPPeter Dunne
Kevine Hague
National MP of the Year
Tony Ryall
Labour MP of the Year
David Cunliffe
MP of the Year
Tony Ryall
AND! … Mayor of the year
Vote:Meng Foon
December 11th, 2012 at 9:26 am
Interesting. All of my votes matched yours, DPF. My first criterion – who made the biggest media splashes? And then you made the greatest contributions. Often the first overshadowed the second. What were the reasons for your choices?
Cheers
[DPF: I have not said how I voted. But my votes were Gower, Norman, Finlayson, Hipkins and and Ryall]
Vote:December 11th, 2012 at 9:31 am
I agree with Manolo.
Tony Ryall wins hands down as one of the very very few Nat MPs worth more than a pinch of goat shit.
Rodney Hide and Julie Anne Genter are the only other names worth a vote.
Vote:December 11th, 2012 at 10:00 am
Politician of the year: Lockwood Smith?
Vote:December 11th, 2012 at 10:06 am
Has Rajen Prasad’s name been added for comedy effect?
Vote:December 11th, 2012 at 10:36 am
Some might suggest that Rajen is but one amongst a caucus of clowns.
Vote:December 11th, 2012 at 10:48 am
Rajen Prasad’s.
Vote:Represents the next effort in reaching the voter base labour is shure it has
December 11th, 2012 at 11:53 am
Too Easy!
Gower
Genter
Finlayson
Wall
Norman
Vote:December 11th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Could we have something like Kiwiblogger of the year.
Vote:I think it would be between Viking2, Nasska and Reid.
Manolo might be in the running. Kiwi In America has shown promise.
Redbaiter should be retired to stud, but nobody would want to breed from him, but the off spring of him and Penny would be interesting.
December 11th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
I suggest a poll for best respondent here, worst respondent here, and the best post by DPF and the worst.
Vote:December 11th, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Thanks for your response to my comment at 9.26 am. What then do the boldfaced entries mean than? I was under the (obviously incorrect) impression was that they represented your selections. Oops.
Vote: