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Maurice Williamson: 'Rainbow across my electorate'
Pakuranga MP Maurice Williamson has parliamentarians roaring in their seats during the third marriage equality bill reading.

liberalmuse
(18,876 posts)I was convinced it was Mayberry. It was a place where people with spotless karma ended up. What a beautiful place with beautiful people!
TDale313
(7,822 posts)Learned that during my Xena fan girl days
amb123
(1,599 posts)"One of the messages I had was that this bill was the cause of our drought. This bill was the cause of our drought. Well, if any of you follow my Twitter account, you will see that in the Pakurange electorate this morning it was pouring with rain. We had the most enormous, big gay rainbow across my electorate. It has to be a sign, sir."
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)Let's raise a whole bunch more like him here in the U.S.A.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Alan Grayson. Henry Waxman. Bernie Sanders. Elizabeth Warren. Maybe Al Franken. That's pretty much the entire list of American politicians that could give a speech like this (on any subject).
Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)...put two words together in a righteous cause, or even in their own dirty causes.
In NZ, they don't allow one. private. far rightwing-connected. corporation (ES&S, which bought out Diebold) to 'count' virtually all the votes using 'TRADE SECRET' code, with NO AUDIT AT ALL in half the states and a miserably inadequate 1% audit in the other half.
Our system is rigged to produced dumbfuck office holders. Look around!
It's obvious that NZ counts all their votes IN THE PUBLIC VENUE, along with other safeguards like limiting corporate campaign cash and insisting on decent news media.
It's sad and embarrassing, yes, but we need to face it--we really do--and start putting our democracy and our intelligent, well-educated, articulate and progressive society back together again, minus some malefactors that have been fucking us over for some time ("military-industrial complex," banksters, corporate media...).
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)SwissTony
(2,560 posts)Now if we Aussies can just get Julia to see sense...
Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)Thanks for posting!