Smear posters

November 5th, 2008

Vote with Both Eyes Open has tried to get more traction for its smear poster campaign.

I’ve now had a chance to talk to the Young Nats about the website statement. They regard this as a beat-up, designed to attract attention to the slur campaign in the poster, and to keep an irrelevancy running. They’ve dealt with these posters incidentally, and paid no organised attention to them.

The posters were apparently all on illegal sites. It’s a form of graffiti. We’ve been sticking to the law. They have not.

We tried to get Labour and the other parties to agree on how to deal with signage. Three parties responded supportively. Labour and the others responded dismissively.

I regard the posters as an integral part of a despicable campaign designed to fit in with Labour’s nationwide strategy of innuendo and smear, because debating policy will not get them there.

None of us know the person in the pink shirt in the large website photograph. He may be one of the many people who have spontaneously removed them. I’ve had calls from people I do not know asking me if I know about the posters and telling me they’ve removed them.

This may be part of the posterers’ attempt to get their retaliation in first, because Young Nats photographed them postering this morning on illegal sites. I do not know if there are any lawful sites used. Certainly I’ve not heard of any of those posters on the election signage sites permitted by the Wellington City Council.

The poster people seemed to my supporters to be from Both Eyes-Open, whereas the posters were authorized by another person, a Ffion Evans.

It seems Both Eyes Open is now claiming the posters.

Anyone may remove graffiti or other messages posted in breach of bylaws. The EFA means that we can not do the normal response in a democracy by distributing negating material, even if it did not simply magnify the damage. So I thank those who have exercised their rights.

Filed under Free Speech, Politics, Wellington Central

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If your campaign is so issues-based, why have you done nothing to refute the allagations except accuse Labour (who, I can assure you, are not behind Eyes Wide Open – not even close) and Robertson personally of running a dirty campaign?

Oh, and if what the posterers are doing is illegal, why aren’t you reporting them to the police rather than taking the law into your own hands?

You are sounding a little desperate there, Sally.

Internal polling not looking too good?

Those posters are an eyesore, and what you call them Stephen – graffiti.

Having just watched President Barack Obama become the new leader of the free world, I’d like to think Stephen, that signs and posters are not what is going to win the Election for either National or Labour.

Perhaps if you both parties focus on the issues that really matter to New Zealanders — then we will collectively be able to move forward as a nation.

It doesn’t matter if they are legal posters, Stephen. Why is it okay for your supporters – whether they are formally supporters or not – to remove them? Report the matter to police or leave them up. That’s your only option.

Good on you Stephen!

Your honesty, integrity and straight talking has impressed me throughout this campaign! As a previous Labourite, I’m embarrassed to witness their consistently dirty campaign style.

You are the man for wellington!

Honestly, you Labour people will defend anything! Sally, don’t you think the police are busy enough dealing with other things with the current ‘NZs highest ever crime rate’. They shouldn’t have to put up with desperate lefties spreading malicious rumours illegally.
Way to go Stephen! I’ll remove any I come across!

Throughout this campaign, I have seen nothing but underhand tactics, innuendo and sour grapes from the Labour camp. This childish behaviour I have grown tired of from our leaders. At least the National Party have fought a clean campaign and therefore I would hope they would continue this way in government. For this reason I would never vote Labour. Diddums to you Helen!

I tore down 6 venom laden anti-Stephen Franks posters on my way to work. It felt great to liberate Wellington from such poison. Stephen has probably spent his $20,000 and needs freedom fighters to promote change and prevent the spread of maicious lies

Stephen Franks’ campaign team have fought anything but a ‘clean campaign’, from their infrared cameras to their vigilante gangs, to Franks’ own slurs against some fictional militant-gay agenda out to get him.

Have the National team been going around Wellington removing all graffiti, or just what they disagree with?

Pathetic.

Stephen Franks has fought a clean honest campaign
Grant Robertson is a proven liar and cheat and his team of thugs will stoop to any ends to smear and use dirty tricks.

The behaviour of Stephen’s supporters at Karori Mall last Saturday was outrageous. They acted like a pack of goons. Stephen was there; he should have put a stop to it. Dirty campaign: Stephen, you take the cake.

Stephen – on 17 December 2002 you ensured that an amendment was inserted into the Local Government Act then under debate. That amendment became section 155(3).

Do you believe that the bylaw which you implicitly claim these posters are in breach of would withstand the scrutiny of the legislation you ensured was passed?

I was at Karori Mall last Saturday and scoff at the idea that here was any, absolutely any, untoward activities by the Franks team. The idea is laughable. If having vastly more numbers of volunteers and having unpaid volunteers rather than paid EPMU staff is dirty then we revel in it. We were enthusiastic and got 5 toots to every Labour one toot.

Mercury

Whan making allegations, you need to actually say what the other party did wrong. Care to expand on your remakably vague claims?

But it wasn’t enough and on the day the people of Wellington spoke and the best man won!

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