Who now for Labour in Rimutaka?
EMPU leader Andrew Little has confirmed that he is not standing for Labour in Rimutaka next year. So I wonder who else will be standing? Here's my shortlist of potential candidates.
Moana Mackey: Labour list MP, unsucessfully stood for East Coast seat last election - which her mother held previously - losing to National's Anne Tolley. She has been on the Petone Community Board and worked in Lower Hutt previously, so has links to the Hutt Valley. Also a member of the EMPU. Hardly set the world of politics alight in her four years in Parliament since replacing another unknown MP, Graham Kelly.
Charles Chauvel: Another Labour List MP who stood unsucessfully at the last election in Ohariu-Belmont, lives in Oriental Bay. Another who entered Parliament when an existing list MP quit (Jim Sutton).
Paul Swain: Current MP, well respected by the locals, may decide to hang on for one more term. Supposedly quitting to have more time with his family, although widely beleived that he is being eased out for new blood. Could he plan to stay on one more term for Andrew Little to take over in 2011?
Paul Tolich: Wellington Region Representative to the Labour Party Council and also Andrew Little's deputy at the EMPU, known to attend a few Labour Party Caucus meetings.
Of course, this is all academic as National are winning Rimutaka at the next election!
Moana Mackey: Labour list MP, unsucessfully stood for East Coast seat last election - which her mother held previously - losing to National's Anne Tolley. She has been on the Petone Community Board and worked in Lower Hutt previously, so has links to the Hutt Valley. Also a member of the EMPU. Hardly set the world of politics alight in her four years in Parliament since replacing another unknown MP, Graham Kelly.
Charles Chauvel: Another Labour List MP who stood unsucessfully at the last election in Ohariu-Belmont, lives in Oriental Bay. Another who entered Parliament when an existing list MP quit (Jim Sutton).
Paul Swain: Current MP, well respected by the locals, may decide to hang on for one more term. Supposedly quitting to have more time with his family, although widely beleived that he is being eased out for new blood. Could he plan to stay on one more term for Andrew Little to take over in 2011?
Paul Tolich: Wellington Region Representative to the Labour Party Council and also Andrew Little's deputy at the EMPU, known to attend a few Labour Party Caucus meetings.
Of course, this is all academic as National are winning Rimutaka at the next election!
posted by Michael at
1:36 PM
4 Comments:
Whatever else he may put up as reasons why he isn't standing, I see Little's decision as a clear indication he doesn't think Labour will win in 2008.
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Lindsay, at 12:58 PM
Anyone with any knowledge of the EPMU would realise that a) Paul Tolich is not going to stand in Rimutaka, and b) Little has a lot of unfinished business at the union that would be jeopardised by leaving for parliament.
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Dave, at 1:46 PM
By the way, it's EPMU, not EMPU. Muppet.
By
Tane Wilton, at 10:58 AM
Ha ha, Tane, you're just an angry man. Calm down and take a chill pill.
By
Heine, at 4:00 AM
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