Conversations

With an astroturf here and an astroturf there.

First up, Jen Wilson from the PSA Union.

She sent an email today apologizing for their appalling timekeeping during their Mayoral candidate event that meant nobody except Jett kept under the 5 minutes intro and some like Carmen and Jules pushed past 8 minutes. While others of us were ragged for going over 6 minutes. Aaron went just over 7 minutes but wasn’t asked to stop at any stage, of course. Except by Jule’s troll (yes he had a troll at the event). But then the troll was ragged by Jen for being so bolshie. Said troll then tried to provoke me for the next 5 or so minutes.

I did actually try to address the unfair timekeeping at the meeting, getting shouted down at one stage by the Greens in the room, a Team Dunedin troll and a someone whose most notable adornment, a rather large one, wasn’t an ode to any union but to Christ. And then later when I tried to address it to Jen in a conversation she told me that she wasn’t going to let me speak (I can’t find her twitter handle but it soun…