Eden-Monaro: Labor caught with unauthorised poster

[Juliar]

Is there no end to Labor's shameful conduct ?  No doubt it is the GetUp! Terrorists again.

There needs to be guards in place at all cemeteries to ensure the practice (as is perfected in Queensland by Labor), of raising the dead does not occur on election day.

Labor lies and illegals acts ,,,nothing new move on, we will fix it up later maybe

Trouble is, it is never fixed – just keeps on keeping on.

This really shows how the Aussie “she’ll be right Mate – near enough is close enough -, like the Long march of The left -has’ so deeply infiltrated our country. Any one with half a brain should have ensured that the authorisations were accurate before the release of the corflutes.


Eden-Monaro: Labor caught with unauthorised posters
AMM 26.06.20.


Albo and Kirsty McBain

Labor is quietly taking down corflute signs across the Eden-Monaro tilt after keen eyes noticed the signs were authorised by disgraced former boss Kaila Murnain, hoping like hell that nobody saw such a dumb move.

The public, however, are far smarter than Labor’s campaign managers and blew the whistle. Will this lose votes for the Labor candidate? Probably not!



Eden-Monaro: Labor’s Kirsty McBain caught with unauthorised campaign signs
Source: Anna Caldwell, The Daily telegraph

Labor is urgently trying to tear down a string of corflutes in its Eden-Monaro tilt which boast the authorisation of disgraced former party boss Kaila Murnain.

The Daily Telegraph was sent photos of red Labor signs, with the small print “authorised by Kaila Murnain”, including in the window of Labor candidate Kristy McBain’s office in Queanbeyan.

Others were taken in Yass and Narooma.

The photo in Ms McBain’s office window was taken on Wednesday, but by yesterday it had been removed.

A Labor spokesman last night explained that the signs were old signs which had been recycled by volunteers.

“These are old signs that are in the possession of Labor Party members and volunteers who are eager to get Kristy McBain elected as a strong local voice for Eden-Monaro,” the spokesman said.

“We are making every effort to take these signs out of circulation.”

The Commonwealth Electoral Act requires authorisation of corflutes, ads and other electoral material to include the address of a person where they are located or can be contacted.

Ms Murnain quit as general secretary of the Labor Party last October after being called before ICAC in a donations hearing.

https://morningmail.org/eden-monaro-lab ... ore-118129

[Juliar]

Is this the work of the GetUp! Terrorists!!!!!


Eden-Monaro byelection: AFP investigate disinformation campaign against Labor's Kristy McBain
Katharine Murphy Political editor Mon 29 Jun 2020 12.25 AESTLast modified on Mon 29 Jun 2020 13.21 AEST

As the campaign enters its final week, police investigate widely distributed emails that make false claims about McBain and her family.


Labor candidate for the seat of Eden-Monaro, Kristy McBain. The Australian federal police are investigating spam emails claiming McBain has pulled out of the race. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The Australian federal police are investigating a disinformation campaign against Labor’s candidate in the Eden-Monaro byelection after spam emails distributed around the country claimed that Kristy McBain had pulled out of the contest.

The false material was assessed by the Electoral Integrity Assurance Taskforce and referred for police investigation.

Labor’s national secretary, Paul Erickson, said he was hopeful police could identify the culprit because “the spread of disinformation online is a threat to democracy”.

The AFP on Monday confirmed an investigation was under way but declined to comment further.

As the campaign enters its final week, there is more than one email circulating making false claims about McBain and her family members. The material has been circulated beyond the electorate.

Read more here

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... sty-mcbain

[Juliar]

Master Vote winner, ScoMo dishes out some vote winning cash.



Coalition unveils $86m for primary producers as Eden-Monaro contest heats up
Katharine Murphy Political editor Mon 22 Jun 2020 22.30 AEST Last modified on Mon 22 Jun 2020 22.31 AEST

Package to aid bushfire and Covid-19-impacted communities frustrated at slow pace of disaster recovery.


The Coalition is announcing an $86m package to aid rural communities hammered by twin disasters of summer bushfires and coronavirus pandemic. Photograph: Kiran Ridley/Greenpeace Australia/Getty Images

The Morrison government will unveil $86m for primary producers hit by the summer bushfires and the coronavirus pandemic as the byelection contest in Eden-Monaro accelerates into the closing fortnight.

The package to be unveiled by the Coalition on Tuesday includes a $31m grant fund, with payments of $120,000 a hectare available for bushfire-impacted apple growers.

Apple orchards around the inland town of Batlow were decimated during the summer bushfires, and recovery from that catastrophe is front-and-centre in the contest.

The Liberal party’s television advertising in the contest emphasises that the candidate, Fiona Kotvojs, will be able to deliver for constituents hammered by the two disasters because she will be a member of the incumbent government, rather than a member of the opposition.

There has been intense frustration in some of the communities in the bellwether electorate about the slow pace of disaster recovery, and about residents falling between the gaps of the various government assistance programs.

The byelection was triggered by the retirement of the Labor incumbent, Mike Kelly. Labor’s pitch in the contest in the seat – which is diverse, and covers Canberra commuter towns of Yass and Queanbeyan and stretches down to Eden near the Victorian border and back up to Braidwood in the Southern Tablelands – has been forgotten by the Coalition.

While Labor enjoyed a less cluttered start to the contest, the campaigns have been constrained because of the physical distancing restrictions required to flatten the curve of Covid-19 infections and strategists are reluctant to forecast success or failure of the persuasion efforts to date because of the diversity of the communities.


As well as the funding for orchardists, Tuesday’s package includes a $40m forestry recovery fund to support processors “navigating future wood supply shortages through innovation and product diversification” and $10m for storage facilities for processed timber products, fire-affected logs and other forestry products.

There is forestry industry on the south coast as well as in Tumut and Tumbarumba, and the Visy paper mill is located nearby.

The package also includes a $5m grant fund, which will require co-contributions from wine grape producers who experienced crop loss because of smoke taint. The funding will be centred on wine regions that don’t have access to primary producer grants.

In a statement issued ahead of the announcement Scott Morrison said the funding would help communities “build back better”.

“As our communities battle to overcome the effects of drought, bushfires and now Covid-19, it’s initiatives like these that will also help accelerate economic recovery and ultimately deliver more jobs to the regions,” Morrison said.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... t-heats-up

[Juliar]

ScoMo reckons he will win Eden-Monaro after he has so successfully whiteanted Labor.

The wacky Labor drongo is rattling on about the silly Greeny Climate Change SCAM. Don't these Labor fools ever learn ? The Climate Change SCAM was a big reason they lost the federal election as voters are sick of their contrived fairy tales.

Wonder if the Albo school boy is banned from appearing as he is a certain votes loser ?



Liberals confident they are in 'striking distance' of Eden-Monaro upset
By Rob Harris June 30, 2020 — 11.00pm

The Liberal Party believes it is within striking distance of causing a once-in-a-100-year upset in Saturday's Eden-Monaro byelection, as it attempts to wrestle the marginal seat off Labor.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is expected to again campaign in the electorate in coming days alongside candidate Fiona Kotvojs, declaring on Tuesday: "I need her on my team this Saturday."


Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Liberal candidate for Eden-Monaro Dr Fiona Kotvojs.CREDIT:ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN

Several Liberal sources told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age the party remained an outsider in the race but the result would be "neck and neck" with Labor candidate Kristy McBain, with a huge pre-poll and postal vote meaning it was likely a result would not be known on Saturday night.

The last time an opposition lost a seat to a government at a byelection was in 1920, in the West Australian seat of Kalgoorlie, when Labor lost the seat to the Nationalist Party government.

Under fierce attacks from the opposition over his decision not to release the Department of Treasury's review into the government's $70 billion wage subsidy scheme, JobKeeper, Mr Morrison said he was "carefully weighing up" the important issues.

Labor has seized on modelling showing about 4800 businesses and an estimated 18,000 workers in the electorate, which takes in Queanbeyan and includes the towns of Yass, Bega and Cooma, were reliant on the subsidy.

Ms McBain and Labor's treasury spokesman Jim Chalmers have called on the government to release the review and reveal whether the $1500-a-fortnight payment would be made available beyond its September cut-out date.

"I've already flagged very clearly there will be a next phase and we are calibrating that next phase and targeting it to ensure that the support is there for those businesses and those employees who will continue to need it," Mr Morrison said.

"But for many other businesses, we're pleased to see that there has been some improvement and so these are decisions that you don't rush to meet Labor's timetable."

Dr Kotvojs, appearing alongside Mr Morrison at Lobs Hole in Kosciuszko National Park, was forced to defend a submission she made to the royal commission into the summer's bushfires.

Labor seized on the words, written by the candidate and her husband Alan Burdon in April, which called for fuel loads to be better managed and did not reference climate change.

"For us, there is only one issue — fuel load. Unless this is addressed, everything else is meaningless," they wrote.

Dr Kotvojs said she believed the climate was changing and that humans were contributing to that change.

"Where I live, the fires came through our farm and we watched them coming at Cobargo, into Dignams Creek, and the areas where there been hazard reduction already occur, the fire came through low intensity and much slower," she said.

"It caused much less damage. The area where the hazard reduction hadn't occurred, the fire was just so intense. It's caused so much damage."


Labor candidate Kristy McBain is aiming to retain the seat Mike Kelly won in 2019 before leaving politics.CREDIT:ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN

Ms McBain, who stood aside as Bega Valley mayor to contest the by-election, said on Tuesday that holding onto the seat vacated by two-time MP Mike Kelly was going to be "difficult".

ALP sources told The Herald that preferences from the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party would be critical for the party's chances to retaining the seat. Mr Kelly won by about 1 per cent last May.

They said it remained uncertain whether Nationals voters would give their second preference to the Liberals and there was an grassroots campaign among some party members to send a protest vote elsewhere.


Ms McBain said the community was "really hurting" after drought, bushfire and the COVID-19 pandemic, which has shut down the tourism sector.

"I've spoken to so many business owners, so many residents. Everybody is really concerned about the future of their work, the future of their jobs," she said.

"They actually want someone that's going to go into bat for them long term. Not someone that just shows up during a by-election, but someone who's already got their runs on the board."

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal ... 557r0.html

[Juliar]

The ineffective Socialist HATE Pit tactics in Eden Monaro.



Paul Bongiorno: Dirty tricks and attack ads in the garden of Eden-Monaro
6:00am, Jun 30, 2020 Updated: 1:26pm, Jun 30


The Eden-Monaro byelection will be decided this Saturday. Photo: TND


Attack ads can tell you a lot about what the major parties think are the weaknesses of their opponents in any election.

Saturday’s Eden-Monaro by-election is no exception.

The Liberals think Labor’s biggest problem is that it is in opposition while Labor sees being in government as the Liberals’ biggest drag.

The Liberals began a heavy schedule of their attack ad in prime time on the weekend hoping to scare the estimated 80,000 electors who haven’t yet voted.

In this time of coronavirus we are seeing a record number of  pre-poll and postal votes.

According to the Australian Electoral Commission, 30,000 have already marked their ballot papers.

The Liberal ad on the commercial networks that regional channels beamed into the sprawling southern New South Wales electorate are typical of the genre – black-and-white images with the most unflattering pictures of Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese they can find.


In a blast from the past, the Liberal attack ads feature Bill Shorten.

That’s right Bill Shorten – Liberal strategists clearly think that a reprise of their successful tax and spend campaign against Labor last year is worth another shot at snatching victory.

The image of Mr Shorten morphs into Labor’s candidate Kristy McBain.

The charismatic candidate is obviously scary to her opponents, so we are reminded that while she was mayor of Bega she raised rates by 8 per cent after Council’s “budget blew out with a $9 million deficit.”

The voiceover concludes “as we rebuild our economy Labor means more uncertainty”.

Except that even if Ms McBain wins, it would be at least two years before she or Labor get a chance to tax or spend anything.

Labor insiders still spooked by the shock loss of last year’s election worry that this sort of advertising works.

But it is truly a strange tack from a government facing a record Budget deficit of its own – well over an eye-watering $100 billion.

The fact is the government not only faces the uncertainty of a deepening recession and ballooning unemployment but also a huge question mark over what it is going to do about it.

It hints some elements of JobKeeper will be kept and JobSeeker will not be  stripped back to the old below-the-poverty-line $40 a day like Newstart.

But it refuses to give detailed commitments and warns it can’t afford to be as generous as it has been.

Economists like those at the Grattan Institute and the Nine Newspapers’ Ross Gittens keep warning this is a recipe for an even harsher recession.

Labor’s attack ad homes in on this concern tracked by the Australia Institute’s poll that found 64 per cent of Eden-Monaro voters want JobKeeper retained and extended beyond its September deadline.

Labor avoids the stark black-and-white ugly pictures instead going straight for the government’s throat: “If you think small businesses need more support and can’t afford to lose JobKeeper just yet, the Eden-Monaro by-election is your chance to tell the Liberals that.”

Surely if Mr Morrison was confident he had good news for voters on this front he would trumpet it – his reluctance a dead giveaway that disappointing news is merely being postponed.

Somebody who doesn’t want Labor’s Ms McBain to win has orchestrated bizarre emails to land in voters’ mailboxes.

One fake batch purported to be from an address linked to the Catholic Church. Another falsely appeared linked to a news site and claimed the Labor candidate had COVID-19 and was withdrawing.

The AEC has asked the federal police to investigate, but after the Angus Taylor forged letter probe that doesn’t inspire confidence.

Ms McBain told Triple M Riverina “most people are sick of this old-school negative politics and constant attacks”.

She said it is what it is and “we move forward”.

But not to be underestimated is Mr Morrison’s entrenched record approval rates in Newspoll, the fact that the Liberals candidate Fiona Kotvojs came very close last time, and the party is spending more money than it did then.

All the effort at the general election went to the PM’s captain’s pick, the Labor turncoat Warren Mundine in neighbouring Gilmore.

That misjudgment has been addressed according to a local Liberal.

Saturday will be an acid test for both the Liberal and Labor leaders.

Mr Morrison’s ability to translate his rock star ratings into real votes is facing a reality check.

And Mr Albanese’s capacity as a vote magnet faces its first trial.

Paul Bongiorno AM is a veteran of the Canberra Press Gallery, with 40 years’ experience covering Australian politics

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/06 ... en-monaro/

[Juliar]

BH, waving his arms around while sitting on his armchair, would not know a fact if it fell on him.



Snowy 2.0 - a Liberal achievement boosting Eden Monaro.

Snowy 2.0 will create thousands of local jobs. It's good for Eden-Monaro businesses, our environment, and our local economy. Work has now commenced on a manufacturing plant for some of the crucial piping infrastructure Snowy 2.0 will need.

And this is the work of the Libs.  Labor can't work out how to damage this project.

There is even a video of this magnificent project which is now part of ScoMo's WWII style massive infrastructure projects to help Australia recover from the Virus.

https://www.facebook.com/FionaKotvojsfo ... 326891978/

[Juliar]

Gee the burnt Socialists are trying to celebrate the FAKE WIN in Eden Monaro where the dumb Eden Monaro residents will now be punished for the havoc they have wreaked upon themselves.

Labor will do nothing for them except support the angry Greenies in BANNING the clearing of undergrowth in the forests so the next bushfire will be even more fierce.

Even the bushfire relief has not been given to the residents as no doubt Labor was going to prioritize residents depending on whether they are Socialist or not.

How much branch stacking occurred in the Labor camp ? Sounds like the Shooters have shot themselves in the foot.


But it is not over yet.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVUShugYBxE

The Liberal Party could take several days to concede defeat following the Eden-Monaro by-election on Saturday as 700 votes remain between Labor candidate Kristy McBain and the Liberal’s Fiona Kotvojs with a few thousand postal ballots still to count.

Ms McBain claimed victory over the ultra-marginal seat on Sunday afternoon following a win made possible by preferences from the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party.

Polling results from Saturday also showed the continuation of a trend in the Nationals Party losing votes in regional areas to the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party.

Nationals Leader Matt Canavan said action must be taken in response to traditional party voters “who are going off in other directions, who are having dalliances with other parties.”

Well they may hold the seat but they've lost a great deal of support along with the greens. I guess the people didn't fall for the climate alarmism over the fires.

People stomachs and assets override climate change.  It’s Called jobs

Labor wont see power again for another decade at least. Progressives have ruined it for them.

Rigged like everything else. As if anybody except a few thousand already programmed university brats want more Communism. If you still think Labor is for the workers it's time to wake up. Neither Party will save you from what's coming but Labor is on fast track. Try surviving Victoria right now. Megalomaniacs like Dictator Daniel Andrews are on a killing spree. He's so excited by the death count. Not from the "virus" from the suicides and lock downs. Making people sick. He's thrilled. Giddy even.

For those who care about facts and real news: the last time Eden-Monaro did not go to preferences was 43 years ago, in 1977. This was the sixteenth election in a row at which the seat was decided on preferences.

One is always disappointed to see so many informal votes:  6.4% in Eden Monaro yesterday.
Plus it looks like a huge number of people didn't turn out to vote - will probably be somewhere between 15 and 20% when the final votes come in.
How can voting be made easier?

it’s noteworthy that the "winner" in Eden Monaro had to rely on preferences.


The writing is on the wall for temporary Albo as Labor accepts being in Opposition for the next 20 years

[Juliar]

With a coalition partner like the Nats of today, the Libs would be better off going it alone.

As for the Shooters and Fishers… they have done exactly what small breakaway parties have always done in this country – shot themselves in the proverbial foot over some personal sleight someone in its leadership felt they had been dealt. And given their party’s name, that’s a really unfortunate analogy if all too accurate.



Political “bastardry” in Eden-Monaro!
AMM 06.07.20.



Weeks before the advent of the Eden-Monaro by-elections NSW National’s Leader John Barilaro jousted with NSW MP Andrew Constance over who would contest that vacant seat.

That all fizzled accompanied by a public, vitriolic exchange from Barilaro to the village idiot and National’s leader Michael McCormack.

It would appear that PM Morrison and McCormack did not support Barilaro—hence Barilaro’s bizarre behaviour.

But that fails to eclipse that of the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party that has seriously shot itself not in the foot, but squarely in the head.

Such a crazy choice to preference Labor has shocked its supporters.

The political future of the SFF party seems bleak indeed. Meanwhile rancour will continue until the Nationals dump their village idiot who is a catalyst for division!

There can be little doubt that one man’s vanity — or insanity — project looks set to rob Scott Morrison of what would have been a historic victory at the weekend.

The NSW Nationals leader and Deputy Premier, John Bari­laro, made no secret of his desire for the seat of Eden-Monaro ­to remain in Labor hands.


Barilaro bastardry cost PM an historic victory in Eden-Monaro
Source: Simon Benson, News Corp

He actively campaigned for this very outcome, having effectively endorsed Labor candidate Kristy McBain.

Gobsmacked senior Liberals say they have never seen anything like it. And the Prime Minister has every right to be filthy.

The Liberal Party didn’t have high expectations of pulling off a one-in-100-year by-election victory but it held out hopes in the final week of campaigning.

And the results prove that they were right to be hopeful.
But for an act of political bastardry by Barilaro, whose motives need little explanation, Eden-Monaro would probably be back in Coalition hands.

While Labor leader Anthony Albanese can claim an “ugly victory”, he should take little comfort from the result. The swing against Labor, both on primary vote and the two-party-preferred, should be of deep concern for the Opposition Leader.
If this result reflects Labor’s grand plan to win the next federal election, things aren’t looking too good.

Labor has kept the seat — with the caveat that there are still a couple of thousand postal votes to be counted — because of a kooky coalition of preferences from the fringes of the left and the right but also from the Nationals.

There were obvious reasons the federal Nationals did not want to run a candidate, all of which have been confirmed by the result. They went backwards and contributed to a Liberal loss with a 20 per cent flow of preferences to Labor.

Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack’s impotence as federal Nationals leader has again been exposed through his inability to stop Barilaro running riot through the entire campaign.

As if his leadership wasn’t ­already in strife.

The Deputy NSW Premier’s shenanigans, and public encouragement to put Labor ahead of the Liberals is as inexplicable as his self-indulgent carry-on over his decision to denominate himself as the Nationals candidate in the first place.
Yet his contribution to this ­result goes much further.

He is equally culpable for the rise of the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers party in his own backyard — the state seat of Monaro — having done nothing to try to prevent it. That a fringe party based on conservative ideology preferenced Labor was just ­another quirk of a by-election that fielded 14 candidates, many from the outer reaches of space.

Morrison will be buoyed by the swing to the Liberals, considering by-elections normally swing against the government, but the Liberal campaign was nobbled from the start.

If the final result comes down to a few hundred votes in Labor’s favour, which it appears it will, Barilaro could rightly be held as singularly ­responsible for denying the Prime Minister the win and the federal government another seat in a tightly contested parliament.

https://morningmail.org/political-basta ... ore-118512

[Juliar]

The evil GetUp! terrorists show up again!!!!!

Will ALBO Follow, give me a break, he spruiked the ABC in all speeches, GetUp! is a political propaganda arm to Labor and the Greens are losing voters (is a good thing).

With luck, the voter will eventually get the Green slime out and Labor will have to do deals with all the 1% idiots. Labor vote went backwards and the Greens backwards (no more 10% deals )

Best way to counter that is to publish some of their monstrous ABC salaries alongside the number of minutes of work done per week.

The ABC are terrified of this sort of publicity, and so they should be, it’s a rip off of taxpayers money.





GetUp! meddles in Eden-Monaro by-election!
AMM 06.07.20.

It seems most likely that any success or voter influence GetUp has in Australia’s political affairs is pretty much on the back of MSM that views the activists as a story and gives them oxygen, which, without would see the rabble suffocate.

It is simple—if people ignored any and every word they spruiked there would be no GetUp! because supporters would stop donating to a no-performance bunch of hucksters!

GetUp! used a campaign blitz in Saturday’s Eden Monaro by-election to road-test a 2022 federal election issue it reckons will take skin, and seats, off the Coalition.

The pitch? “Protecting the ABC.”

Diary hears GetUp! made its presence felt in Eden Monaro during voting, ahead of Labor’s apparent narrow victory, with a vocal campaign against government funding levels.

But what was more interesting was that GetUp!’s ABC pitch seemed closely synchronised with Labor’s.



Labor joins GetUp! for ABC blitz
Source: Nick Tabakoff. News Corp

GetUp!’s Paul Oosting was first out of the blocks with a press release blitz last Tuesday. The ABC, he declared, was a “vote-deciding” issue. “It’s time to end the political interference (at the ABC),” Oosting said.

Like clockwork, hours later, Labor joined in, issuing a 30-second “vote Labor to save the ABC” ad, featuring ABC on-air talent, including Q&A host Hamish McDonald and several other personalities to back its case.

But should that ad have been allowed to remain up?

As of Sunday, the ad was still on Labor’s Twitter feed despite questions about whether ABC talent should be used for political purposes. And after the polls closed, Labor leader Anthony Albanese pointedly tweeted: “I want to thank everyone who voted for a strong ABC.”

In the lead-up, Albo pledged to reverse the ABC funding freeze. Meanwhile, GetUp! forked out for ABC polling, releasing an “electorate snapshot” that claimed 70 per cent of Eden Monaro residents wanted more funding for Aunty.

For friends of the ABC, the by-election was indeed a gift: a very marginal seat up for grabs 10 days after big ABC cuts.

With uncanny foresight, GetUp! had also strategically released a 60-page report just two months ago (days after the by-election was announced) to detail “the damage this government’s aggressive agenda of cuts has inflicted on the ABC”.

That GetUp! report was authored by Emma Dawson, long-time policy adviser to ex-Labor communications minister Stephen Conroy. Dawson is close to the ABC’s head of strategy Mark Tapley, after the pair worked hand-in-glove for Labor’s Conroy when Tapley was the ex-communications minister’s chief of staff.

In the 2019 federal election, GetUp! started small, trialling an ABC cinema ad pitch in three marginals: Boothby and Mayo in South Australia, and Wentworth in Sydney.

But with Dawson’s ABC report in tow this time, GetUp! is likely to go bigger with a national campaign in 2022. Will Albo follow?

https://morningmail.org/getup-meddled-i ... ore-118505

[Black Orchid]

GetUp should be banned. If they blitzed Eden-Monaro they didn't do a very good job. They won, sure, but only by a hair.

They spent $10M unseating Tony Abbott and his replacement, Zali Steggall, is a dud and won't win another election. What a waste of money.

The days of "may the best man or woman win" are long gone and that really pees me off.