Locals Galway City 2019

_Whimsical_

John Crowley from the Soc Democrats came to my door last week and he mentioned he's decided not to use posters, that they can't be really justified anymore as they're single use etc.

I thought that was a brave enough move, made me look a little closer at what he's offering.

zell12

Bredabe wrote: »

Two FG's running in the same area, even tho its the same ward? story with that?

Sweeper candidates.

Fine Gael
Central Cllr. Frank Fahy, Eddie Hoare
East Cllr. John Walsh, Donal Lynch
West Cllr. Pearce Flannery, Clodagh Higgins

Same with Fianna Fail
Central Cllr. Ollie Crowe, Imelda Byrne
East Cllr. Michael Crowe, Alan Cheevers
West Cllr. Peter Keane, John Connolly

xckjoo

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

John Crowley from the Soc Democrats came to my door last week and he mentioned he's decided not to use posters, that they can't be really justified anymore as they're single use etc.

I thought that was a brave enough move, made me look a little closer at what he's offering.

Risky. Particularly for a new party without the recognition.
I'm thinking of giving him a vote but now I doubt his judgement

_Whimsical_

xckjoo wrote: »

Risky. Particularly for a new party without the recognition.
I'm thinking of giving him a vote but now I doubt his judgement

lol yeah I was the same. Infairness though when I asked him about it he definitely understood it was risky, he looked a little ill about it infact, but he said he felt he couldn't justify doing it all the same. I'd have to respect someone who'll put a principle over their own chances. I said I'll make the effort to tell people about him because he was going to do it and he was thankful.

ChewyLouie

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

John Crowley from the Soc Democrats came to my door last week and he mentioned he's decided not to use posters, that they can't be really justified anymore as they're single use etc.

I thought that was a brave enough move, made me look a little closer at what he's offering.

Fair play - will look into him more too. Seems to be a personal stance as I see his SD colleague Owen Hanley has posters up.

Bredabe

zell12 wrote: »

Sweeper candidates.

What is a sweeper candidate?

*google says sweeper candidates are engineers lol!

xckjoo

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

lol yeah I was the same. Infairness though when I asked him about it he definitely understood it was risky, he looked a little ill about it infact, but he said he felt he couldn't justify doing it all the same. I'd have to respect someone who'll put a principle over their own chances. I said I'll make the effort to tell people about him because he was going to do it and he was thankful.

True. We all moan about politicians all being the same and out for themselves, so we should encourage someone making a principled stand. Plus I agree that they're a waste. I think SDs are still too unfocussed as a party for national level, but locals are a different matter.

Gadgetman496

Bredabe wrote: »

What is a sweeper candidate?

*google says sweeper candidates are engineers lol!

A candidate unlikely to be elected but will garner extra votes for transfer to the other candidate/running mate (normally better known or already serving) to get them over the line. A fall guy basically.

Bredabe

Gadgetman496 wrote: »

A candidate unlikely to be elected but will garner extra votes for transfer to the other candidate/running mate (normally better known are already serving) to get them over the line. A fall guy basically.

Thanks a mil.

RainNeverBow

xckjoo wrote: »

True. We all moan about politicians all being the same and out for themselves, so we should encourage someone making a principled stand. Plus I agree that they're a waste. I think SDs are still too unfocussed as a party for national level, but locals are a different matter.

This is basically my line of thinking. Usually vote Labour and was going to but they put forward a really weak candidate so I'll give the Soc Dems a chance

Snow Garden

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

John Crowley from the Soc Democrats came to my door last week and he mentioned he's decided not to use posters, that they can't be really justified anymore as they're single use etc.

I thought that was a brave enough move, made me look a little closer at what he's offering.

150+ towns have banned election posters altogether. At this stage they are just pollution. Most people want them banned.

d00mk1n

Pen Rua wrote: »

Darius Ivan (Craic in Galway) is running...

Love Both supporter, no thanks

xckjoo

Snow Garden wrote: »

150+ towns have banned election posters altogether. At this stage they are just pollution. Most people want them banned.

There would have to be a collective agreement to get rid of them for it to work. Personal decisions to not put up posters will leave that candidate at a disadvantage. I'm curious to the effect the banning of posters will have on voter turn-out too. Hopefully we'll see some stats on turn-out from those regions after the election

Bredabe

d00mk1n wrote: »

Love Both supporter, no thanks

For that ward the FF candidate was very pro life as well, I dont know if it was publicised(apologies if it was and I missed it) but in public meetings , it was clear this was their choice in the matter.

youngrun

xckjoo wrote: »

There would have to be a collective agreement to get rid of them for it to work. Personal decisions to not put up posters will leave that candidate at a disadvantage. I'm curious to the effect the banning of posters will have on voter turn-out too. Hopefully we'll see some stats on turn-out from those regions after the election

Posters a very simple and great way of advertising for elections and seeing who is standing for election
Who is going to vote for a nobody with no presence or campaign?

zell12

youngrun wrote: »

Posters a very simple and great way of advertising for elections and seeing who is standing for election
Who is going to vote for a nobody with no presence or campaign?

Peter Casey, a comparative unknown, had very few posters, yet got 23% of the vote...

Bredabe

youngrun wrote: »

Posters a very simple and great way of advertising for elections and seeing who is standing for election
Who is going to vote for a nobody with no presence or campaign?

Not having posters doesn't mean not having a campaign, Im a floating voter but I talking during the recent ref to members of a party I didn't know was here, I was newly returned.
The candidate is not putting up posters but has a significant fan base and sm presents.

Triangle

Bredabe wrote: »

Not having posters doesn't mean not having a campaign, Im a floating voter but I talking during the recent ref to members of a party I didn't know was here, I was newly returned.
The candidate is not putting up posters but has a significant fan base and sm presents.

There was a motion put before the seanad to discuss only allowing posters to be put up in designated spaces (similar to some places on the continent)
The amendment was not even allow to be discussed.
As far as I know there's only one party that really wants to reduce the impact of posters.

It was proposed by grace osullivan of the green party. A lot of smaller and independents are for posters, I believe the soc dems believe they need them too.

If you care for the environment, there really is only one party that has focused on this and thats the greens. They're the only party that consistently brings bills like the waste reduction bill to the table. The rest are too busy with other items to give the environment a second thought.

Triangle

Edit: double post

Bredabe

Triangle wrote: »

There was a motion put before the seanad to discuss only allowing posters to be put up in designated spaces (similar to some places on the continent)
The amendment was not even allow to be discussed.
As far as I know there's only one party that really wants to reduce the impact of posters.

It was proposed by grace osullivan of the green party. A lot of smaller and independents are for posters, I believe the soc dems believe they need them too.

If you care for the environment, there really is only one party that has focused on this and thats the greens. They're the only party that consistently brings bills like the waste reduction bill to the table. The rest are too busy with other items to give the environment a second thought.

It seems to be a personal choice with the SD's, as I travel around I see posters for some candidates and not others.
For myself, as a visual person some kind of visual presentation is important, when I spoke to candidates, I mentioned the poster park idea. A lead balloon reception tho.

RainNeverBow

Was at the disability debate thing tonight in the Connacht. Was interesting to see them in action. But one FF candidate sent some random fella instead of going who was shouted out for trying to speak on his behalf 😂

dilallio

Spotted this on reddit.

Triangle

Bredabe wrote: »

It seems to be a personal choice with the SD's, as I travel around I see posters for some candidates and not others.
For myself, as a visual person some kind of visual presentation is important, when I spoke to candidates, I mentioned the poster park idea. A lead balloon reception tho.

True, I was a member of the soc dems and also greens. The smaller parties seem to allow candidates more freedom in their choices (more grass roots driven)
It's one of the reasons they appeal to me.

_Whimsical_

I got a leaflet in the post for Maria Walsh this morning.
I have no idea how she's running as an MEP. If a man had made the comments she made last week when talking about how she'd take on another canditate in elections he'd definitely have been resigning post haste.

"Ms Walsh said: “I have a crown and sash from the Rose Of Tralee in one hand and in the other hand my marksmanship is 37 out of 40 shots with a Steyr rifle....I’m not here to be pushed over.” "

Who could possibly send that out on a European stage to represent us?

ben.schlomo

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

I got a leaflet in the post for Maria Walsh this morning.
I have no idea how she's running as an MEP. If a man had made the comments she made last week when talking about how she'd take on another canditate in elections he'd definitely have been resigning post haste.

"Ms Walsh said: “I have a crown and sash from the Rose Of Tralee in one hand and in the other hand my marksmanship is 37 out of 40 shots with a Steyr rifle....I’m not here to be pushed over.” "

Who could possibly send that out on a European stage to represent us?

Why would they be resigning?

Bredabe

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

I got a leaflet in the post for Maria Walsh this morning.
I have no idea how she's running as an MEP. If a man had made the comments she made last week when talking about how she'd take on another canditate in elections he'd definitely have been resigning post haste.



Who could possibly send that out on a European stage to represent us?

In a male candidate I would assume it was willy waving:rolleyes:, in a women of Marie's background I find it refreshing.

* I expect there are plenty of people in the EUP who can use firearms as well.

xckjoo

Bredabe wrote: »

In a male candidate I would assume it was willy waving:rolleyes:, in a women of Marie's background I find it refreshing.

* I expect there are plenty of people in the EUP who can use firearms as well.

:eek: you can't be saying things like that in this day and age. We're all equal now. Women can wave their willys too :pac:

Bredabe

xckjoo wrote: »

:eek: you can't be saying things like that in this day and age. We're all equal now. Women can wave their willys too :pac:

Very true, while I can be majorily sure the male candidates have a willy, I cant be that sure that Marie does.;)

RainNeverBow

Lol didn't take long to slip into transphobia there lads. And for what? If saying something stupid was a sackable offense we wouldn't have many politicans of any kind!

That said she hasn't a chance

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Bredabe

RainNeverBow wrote: »

Lol didn't take long to slip into transphobia there lads. And for what? If saying something stupid was a sackable offense we wouldn't have many politicans of any kind!

That said she hasn't a chance

Speaking for myself, I wasn't being transphobic, just being giddy. I will of course apologise to any of the mentioned candidates who feel I have slighted them with my mention of them having or not a willy.

*I work with transkids on occasion, so far not one of them has told me that have an issue with that phrase from an old person like me.

xckjoo

RainNeverBow wrote: »

Lol didn't take long to slip into transphobia there lads. And for what? If saying something stupid was a sackable offense we wouldn't have many politicans of any kind!

That said she hasn't a chance

Um. What transphobia?

I'm making the point that equality means if you're going to judge one gender for a silly statement like that then you should equally judge another gender for it. Accusing us of transphobia for that is reactionary and belittling of actual transphobia that people experience.

RainNeverBow

Im not gonna get into it but ye made it about gender for seemingly no reasons. She will be judged on her comments like all the rest

xckjoo

RainNeverBow wrote: »

Im not gonna get into it but ye made it about gender for seemingly no reasons. She will be judged on her comments like all the rest

That was exactly my point but I injected a little light hartedness into it. Mentioning gender doesn't make something transphobic though. And again I think it does a disservice to people experiencing real transphobic behaviour to suggest it does.

zell12

Two councillors came to my door, on different evenings.
Both dropped paper in the letterbox and left.
Clearly engaging with voters.

ChewyLouie

We haven't had a single candidate or canvasser to our door or a single leaflet in the letterbox. Living in the city. Was visiting friends in Tuam last weekend and they had several visits in the couple of hours we were there.

Others getting much canvassing in the city?

ben.schlomo

We've had about 6, city east.

zell12

ben.schlomo wrote: »

We've had about 6, city east.

Are you a brown envelope stockist?

ben.schlomo

zell12 wrote: »

ben.schlomo wrote: »

We've had about 6, city east.

Are you a brown envelope stockist?

Envelopes of all colours, lest anyone suggest any form of discrimination.

RainNeverBow

ben.schlomo wrote: »

We've had about 6, city east.

Jaysus; that's a lot which ones? Only got 3 here in central, Hoare, Byrne, and Nolan

ben.schlomo

RainNeverBow wrote: »

ben.schlomo wrote: »

We've had about 6, city east.

Jaysus; that's a lot which ones? Only got 3 here in central, Hoare, Byrne, and Nolan

Crowd, Larkin, Independent fella, Lynch, McDonnell and a.n other.

flazio

Who are Aontú?

Bredabe

flazio wrote: »

Who are Aontú?

Peadar Tóibín new party, anti choice, conservative and eurosceptic.
Horrible use of the brown/yellow pallet on the posters(tho that might be a girl thing)

bobbyss

How about choosing candidates based solely on looks for locals and Europe?
Maria Walsh's poster is stunning.
She has my No 1. No question of that. If Mary Mitchell O'Connor was running for locals she'd get a 1 as well. ( Just what is it about the air in East Galway/Shrule?)
That way people would be able to actually name their city councillors and MEPs .

RainNeverBow

Anyone listen to the debate? I could only catch the first half. When do the podcasts go up?

Rolllo

My mother got a flyer with a hand-written 'sorry you were out when I called' note on it. She wasn't out, they didn't call, and it wasn't him who put it in the door. Some integrity these lads.

inisboffin

Many 'called' but never knocked at the door. Just put in a flyer. ALL camps

The exception being Mike Cubbard and it was in a deluge. I was in the back garden rescuing laundry!

what_traffic

Plenty of leaflet drops - only two callers.
Am right on the Western edge of Galway Central so was a surprise that 1st caller
was

FAHY Frank FG (he is based in Menlo)

McDONAGH John LAB ; (he is based in Shantalla)

what_traffic

Full listing of all candidates on the RTE Website
https://www.rte.ie/news/elections2019/2019/0505/1047628-galway-city-council/

Zzippy

what_traffic wrote: »

Full listing of all candidates on the RTE Website
https://www.rte.ie/news/elections2019/2019/0505/1047628-galway-city-council/

What an utterly depressing list.

Is the Nuala Nolan running for Aontu in the east ward the same Nuala Nolan who was a Labour councillor in central previously, IIRC? That's quite the change in outlook...