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Paul Gogarty would like to run for Dublin Mayor

  • 29-03-2010 4:33am
    #1
    IrishTonyO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭


    Oh dear God! The Greens have put GoGo in charge of the Green campaign for Dublin mayor, and now he has said he is interested in running!!!
    I suppose he is the only one thick enough not to realise, that he or any other Green will be laughed at in the polls.

    Asked if he had any interest in the position of Mayor, Mr Gogarty said "yes I would be interested".

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0328/breaking19.html


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  • #2
    IrishTonyO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭IrishTonyO


    Gogo coming on Newstalk in a minute to talk about his mayoral aspirations, should be fun


  • #3
    IrishTonyO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭IrishTonyO


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    Ah, ah, ah but did you really hear him being interviewed with Healy (Éamonn Keane's replacement on Newstalk)? I mean the part where Gogarty did not rule out accepting a €200,000 salary as mayor of Dublin. The Healy guy should have followed that up. After this, I waited until the end of the programme simply to find out the interviewee's name: Paul Gogarty.

    Yeah heard the interview, but can you imagine him a Mayor of Dublin. Meeting foreign dignitaries etc. Oh my God what an impression he would leave on them.


  • #4
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    IrishTonyO wrote: »
    Oh dear God! The Greens have put GoGo in charge of the Green campaign for Dublin mayor, and now he has said he is interested in running!!!
    I suppose he is the only one thick enough not to realise, that he or any other Green will be laughed at in the polls.

    Asked if he had any interest in the position of Mayor, Mr Gogarty said "yes I would be interested".

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0328/breaking19.html

    Ah, ah, ah but did you really hear him being interviewed with Healy (Éamonn Keane's replacement on Newstalk)? I mean the part where Gogarty did not rule out accepting a €200,000 salary as mayor of Dublin. The Healy guy should have followed that up. After this, I waited until the end of the programme simply to find out the interviewee's name: Paul Gogarty.

    Once upon a time a Green Party representative would be livid and utterly repulsed with that obscene "salary". Oh, and notice nobody but nobody is thinking of ending the "Lord Mayor" position, itself an eighteenth-century creation? This new "mayorial" position, while in reality being the position of Dublin's mayors in Norman times (i.e. a working mayor as head of the city corporation), really is a simple case of political jobs for the political boys.


  • #5
    Tricity Bendix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,510 ✭✭✭Tricity Bendix


    How dare he consider running for an elected office! The affrontery of a politician wanting to run for a political office. The Greens should be ashamed!


  • #6
    IrishTonyO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭IrishTonyO


    Tricity Bendix wrote: »
    How dare he consider running for an elected office! The affrontery of a politician wanting to run for a political office. The Greens should be ashamed!

    If you look at the Green policies and speeches prior to the 2007 election, you will see that they thought anyone on that type of salary in public life was obscene and should not be allowed. How quickly the forget their protests from opposition now that they are in the 'club'.


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  • #7
    Rebelheart
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    Tricity Bendix wrote: »
    How dare he consider running for an elected office! The affrontery of a politician wanting to run for a political office. The Greens should be ashamed!

    Talk about missing the point.


  • #8
    dRNk SAnTA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭dRNk SAnTA


    Oh my god, you mean the party that are creating the position of mayor have the audacity to put a candidate forward for the position?

    Shocking.


  • #9
    IrishTonyO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭IrishTonyO


    dRNk SAnTA wrote: »
    Oh my god, you mean the party that are creating the position of mayor have the audacity to put a candidate forward for the position?

    Shocking.

    Well if the candidate is Paul Gogarty and his salary is over €200,000 then it should be shocking to everyone including Green Party members.


  • #10
    dRNk SAnTA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭dRNk SAnTA


    If he's not a good candidate then don't vote for him.

    If everyone in Ireland followed this basic rule of thumb, we'd have a healthier country. But anyway, I have no doubt there will be worse candidates than Paul "f*ck you" Gogerty running for mayor.


  • #11
    FINGAL FAN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭FINGAL FAN


    In a time when this country is an international basket case and 30% of under 25's are unemployed this "Dublin Lord Mayor" is horrendous . 200,000 Euro for a job the that holder has no budget or real powers is surely a clear sign of what kind of bubble these people live in .


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  • #12
    danman
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    I'm surprised nobody has seen the implications of him running for mayor.

    All dubs should vote for him, do you not see it?

    If he runs, and wins, he would give up his seat. Another by-election.

    What would that mean to the government, I wonder....???


  • #13
    LostinBlanch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭LostinBlanch


    Danman,

    there are three seats are unfilled at the moment, which is a disgrace. Cowen wouldn't call these by elections until he has absolutely no option. So what makes you think that he would call one for Gogo's seat?


  • #14
    danman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭danman


    One less in the majority government, am I wrong about that?

    Oh, by the way, FG can call for George Lee's seat whenever they want.


  • #15
    bytey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭bytey


    please tell me we will be able to vote on this !


  • #16
    IrishTonyO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭IrishTonyO


    Yeah the position of mayor is meant to be directly elected mayor, as in the same as London where the people vote for the mayor.


  • #17
    bytey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭bytey


    dRNk SAnTA wrote: »
    If he's not a good candidate then don't vote for him.

    If everyone in Ireland followed this basic rule of thumb, we'd have a healthier country. But anyway, I have no doubt there will be worse candidates than Paul "f*ck you" Gogerty running for mayor.

    true , lets see , there is

    1/ Brian 'f*ck you , ireland ' Cowen
    2/ Mary 'f*ck off you peasants and die ' Harney
    3/ John ' f*ck all of you ' Gormley
    4/ Bertie ' gimme your money , now f*ck off ' Ahern
    5/ Noel ' on your f*king bike ' Dempsey

    etc . etc


  • #18
    anymore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,672 ✭✭✭anymore


    FINGAL FAN wrote: »
    In a time when this country is an international basket case and 30% of under 25's are unemployed this "Dublin Lord Mayor" is horrendous . 200,000 Euro for a job the that holder has no budget or real powers is surely a clear sign of what kind of bubble these people live in .

    In my innocence, I assumed that the position of Mayor of Dublin would extinguish the ceremonial position of Lord Mayor of Dublin which according to one sunday newspaper costs in the region of € 800,000/900,000 to run. Except it wont, the ceremonial post will continue to exist so instead of of sustainability we have yet one more position which will eat up tax payers money. How does this reconcile with the Green philosophy of sustainability ?


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