Tough State Election Choice…
No bones about it, I am a Labor supporter. But the inept NSW Labor government has really gotten on my nerves. Morris Iemma inherited the Premiership (the state leader’s title here) from his predecessor Bob Carr. Carr has secured his place of being an election-winning leader, but his actual state development record remains wanting.
One of the spins from Iemma’s people was that he would fix NSW’s many problems. But I don’t see that happening often and fast enough. Recently, my aunt had to go to the Baulkham Hills public hospital after she shattered her ankle. It took her 5 hours to get a ward and a bed. Muthafarking’ell! Remind me again, is Australia a 1st world or 3rd world country here? And I wasn’t impressed at all by that particular hospital’s infrastructure. It looked shabby and overcrowded.
My state MP right now is a Liberal member named Michael Richardson. He’s also the Shadow Environment Minister of NSW. I get these newsletters from him regularly which are quite informative. He outlines his party’s policies clearly, and despite generally not agreeing with his party’s ideology, I agreed with some of his proposals.
One of them included giving Carlingford a direct train link. My sis works at a pharmacy there, and currently there are NO direct public transport routes going through there. Richardson proposes to directly link up the train lines to Carlingford.
The other thing I agreed with him was the preservation of the Castle Hill Showground area. It’s a nice patch of greenery right now, but Labor is planning to build a carpark and a new football stadium over it. Screw that.
Liberal is also proposing $100 rebates for parents whose children have successfully completed their P-Plate test. Who can say no to free money? 
And so I think I’ve more or less decided. On March 24, NSW Election Day, I will probably be voting to re-elect my Liberal MP, Mr Michael Richardson. The only thing that might change my mind on this is that if Labor supplies a really impressive candidate to run against Richardson.
However, Federal Opposition Leader and Labor leader Kevin Rudd has impressed me enough as well. I will probably be voting for a Labor federal government at the end of this year at the Federal Election.
There, election decisions done 
agreed
Comment by hlam3167 — February 15, 2007 @ 3:07 pm
Yeah, I reckon our state MP is a pretty decent guy. Glad to know you’re extending his job duration as well
NSW Labor is sad man. I read in the papers yesterday that whereas all the other states are having about 4% economic growth, NSW had only 1.9%. Plus NSW is the only state where employment levels went into the negatives.
Terrible management by NSW Labor. Time to teach them a lesson…
Comment by sigma — February 16, 2007 @ 12:03 am