Oh yes - we get some extraordinary parties and candidates, especially
for the upper houses where because it's proportional (12 per state,
six elected at each election - double terms) you have a better
chance. At one I had the pleasure of voting against my dentist who
was running for the F*** the Family Court Party (something like that)
because he'd been cleaned out by three wives on the trot - 3 time
loser, deserves all he gets) AND an ex-student standing as a Liberal
(for which read Tory/Republican). Unfortunately he got elected - told
me the next time I saw him that he hadn't been counting on my vote.
We manage a mutual grudging disrespect with humour, if that's possible.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 28/08/2007, at 10:04 AM, Jan Steinman wrote:
> I'll tell ya, a multi-party system is so much more entertaining than
> the "tweedle-dee, tweedle-dum" choices you get in the US. ("Let's see,
> am I for the Big Business candidate that also believes in eating
> babies, or the Big Business candidate that is also a member of the
> Mafia...")
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