Democratic Alliance Convention: May-June 2009 - ENDORSEMENT VOTE

[afleitch]

[X] Hashemite
[ ] Write-in:
[ ] Abstain

Deputy Leader

[X] Purple State
[ ] Write-in:
[ ] Abstain

Special Election Endorsement

[ ] Marokai Blue
[ ] AHDuke99
[ ] Bayh '10
[ ] Keystone Phil
[ ] Gustaf
[ ] Write-in:

• Abstain

[afleitch]

Bump. The lack of participation is unacceptable.

I apologise but I am suffering a period of estrangement from the DA and have been for a few months now. What has 'happened' (and DA members should know what I'm talking about) isn't what I believed we stood for.

[afleitch]

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You think you could fill the new members in?

I'm sorry; I forgot that we had some new starts! However the issue is to do with our wider strategy that I feel has came back and bit our behinds.

[afleitch]

Aye to all of the platform FTR

[afleitch]

I'll say this before I leave for Barcelona (and as such miss the election!)

I think the Senate has been very cordial, some say too cordial and has been very successful. Much of that success is down to the actions of the PPT Master Jedi who has performed outstandingly in his role. And I think that we have been a better Senate of late.

I don't believe DWTL added much to the game that we need to bring back; the game has outgrown that style of personal politiking and 'smoke and mirrors' inter party diplomacy. There is nothing to suggest that DWTL has moved on from this; in face he wants to pick up where he started from. I've been part of this game for a good few years, and like many have played different roles keeping it varied. DWTL has remained boringly similar.

It's getting old now.

I think he needs a spell in the wilderness, as we all do from time to time to reflect, to try something new, to becomes more involved in grassroots issues.

So I'm backing something new; I'm backing Fritz.