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My own experience not withstanding (2.6% support for Human Rights - "Every act of Government, Law, Constitution, and Sovereign* shall require the direct and regular approval of every citizen in its validation"); The Role of Mayor is about standing up next to community groups and patting them on the back for doing something about the Human Rights Crisis in your part of the World.
Beyond that you get to chair Council Meetings, and help shape your city/town/village.
Human Rights are always a popular choice to stand on. Machiavelli proposed that in a constitutional State where you come to power "by the favour of the people must work to retain their friendship; and this is easy because the people only ask not to be oppressed."
*Its a Commonwealth thing
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Votes Count
"When the State has need of its Citizens, there are few to be found." - Machiavelli
The big threat to getting elected is an electorate of complacent voters who have something better to do than vote. Imagine a registered voter failure rate of 35.5%.
So get out there and go door to door. You need to encourage people to vote. It is perhaps far cheaper to door knock than advertise in the Media. Dont Get Pushy.
Most people hate the intrusion, but if you spot them in their yards or are simply slipping a One Page Policy Platform in the mailbox, say Hi!
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A Platform of Ideas
So Human Rights is a big issue - you think what the hell has Human Rights got to do with our Problems? But pretty much all the problems epidemic in your part of the world stem from a failure to address human rights problems.
EMPLOYMENT
Poverty, Homelessness, Unemployment, are all aspects of the ongoing Human Rights Crisis.
If a Council can replace Corporate Contract Labour and employ the Unemployed directly as Council Employees in a Labour intensive role, it can eliminate Unemployment with good wages.
Employing the Unemployed cuts poverty, and allows people to pull themselves up.
More importantly it has economic flow-on. People with money spend. This can revitalize the flagging and unsustainable private sector.
So what do these people do? They are Employed to Sweep Streets, Collect Free Waste, Mow Ovals, Parks, Tend Plants and "Green Belts" - even mow the lawns of Pensioners if such Pensioners desire and are unable to do so themselves. This is pretty much an Apprenticeship in Civil Maintenance.
The Tools of their trade are Brooms, Wheelie Bins, Lawn Mowers, Portable Surveilance Cameras...and the job is done through the employment of numbers.
Consider Ten Thousand otherwise unemployed people employed to Clean, Maintain, and Conduct Surveilance 24 hours a Day on $30,000 wages.
GRAFITTI
Grafitti is the Art of our Primitive Culture. Legalize it. Consider Licencing Grafitti/Indigenous Artists and Requiring Commercial Property Owners to employ said artists to maintain Art Spaces.
ALCOHOLISM AND VIOLENCE
Much of Street Violence has to do with the Sale of Alcohol. Outlaw it. Total Blanket Ban. No one has the right to profit from the destruction of Civilization. People who sell Alcohol are guilty of Conspiracy to pretty much every crime that happens simply by selling Alcohol.
If you take the Alcohol out of Town, then you can end violence in homes toward Children. Abuse Contributes to some eighty percent of Criminals.
If someone wants a Beer, Make them leave town to get it.
Remember: Bad Governments fear Sober Voters.
DONT FORGET - EVERYTHING MUST BE APPROVED BY EVERY ONE REGULARLY otherwise you wind up with mass riots involving the dispossessed.
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Violent Opposition to you running For Mayor
I had never committed a crime, My ethics and Human Rights Policy were spotless and I was Immune to Blackmail. It can get harsh. The House was shot at. My dog was beaten by trespassers. Police described it as a Civil Matter that they dont get involved in.
The "Neutral Media" attacked the way I dressed (Clothing by K-MART) and The fact that I lived with family. I was described as the Frog to kiss to get a Mayor, The "RANK OUTSIDER" THe Gambling Syndicates had me at $101:$1 yet that is not what the Newspaper was refering to. I was basicly called a Smelly Git from out of town...despite being Born here and Showering Regularly.
Dont Cry. Get Even. Requiring the Regular Approval of Liquor Licences and Broadcast/media Licences by people is going to cut their balls off.
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Even though I don't agree with your platform I wish you the best of luck. Politics is very dirty business and not something I would not wish on my worst enemy.
No. Not running. This is purely a Help Thread for those planning on running as Mayor. My bid for election is long over...2.6% of Voters supported Human Rights.
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My bid for election is long over...2.6% of Voters supported Human Rights.
Not quite true; what actually happened were 2.6% of the voters believed that Human Rights are a subject relevant to a local government election, instead of a national government election, where they really belong. And that this belief was strong enough to overcome whatever positive support (if any) they had for the other candidates.
As such, I think 2.6% is actually a fair result.
You're making very large assumptions about the views of your townsfolk. You don't know what issues they find important, or where they stand on your manifesto, all you know is how they voted on this particular occasion.
You really need to examine the results of elections to the national parliament. Has there been a recent candidate with the same manifesto as you? And if so, how did he perform?
If there was such a candidate, and he went down without a trace, then you may have a point. But if there has not yet been such a person, then you can't make any prediction about how the locals feel. They may appreciate the opportunity to send a message to the national government, where these ideas would actually belong.
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I have to say, YellowDingo, your posts are a guilty pleasure of mine. I love reading them; mostly because it's nigh impossible to predict what you might say next.
That being said, I think most of your platform is highly oversimplified idealism beyond the scope the office you tried to get elected to.
Like Snorter, I think your assertion that because only 2.6% of voters voted for you, that means 97.4% of voters are against human rights is just woefully unfair to the voters. There could be any number of reasons that a voter, who agrees with you philosophically, might not vote for you. Maybe many thought you just didn't have the experience in public service. Maybe they don't disagree with what you said, but how you said it. Maybe they just didn't feel like you were a serious candidate. The list goes on.
Better luck next time.
-Skeld
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My bid for election is long over...2.6% of Voters supported Human Rights.Not quite true; what actually happened were 2.6% of the voters believed that Human Rights are a subject relevant to a local government election, instead of a national government election, where they really belong. And that this belief was strong enough to overcome whatever positive support (if any) they had for the other candidates.
As such, I think 2.6% is actually a fair result.
You're making very large assumptions about the views of your townsfolk. You don't know what issues they find important, or where they stand on your manifesto, all you know is how they voted on this particular occasion.
You really need to examine the results of elections to the national parliament. Has there been a recent candidate with the same manifesto as you? And if so, how did he perform?
If there was such a candidate, and he went down without a trace, then you may have a point. But if there has not yet been such a person, then you can't make any prediction about how the locals feel. They may appreciate the opportunity to send a message to the national government, where these ideas would actually belong.
I have to say, YellowDingo, your posts are a guilty pleasure of mine. I love reading them; mostly because it's nigh impossible to predict what you might say next.
That being said, I think most of your platform is highly oversimplified idealism beyond the scope the office you tried to get elected to.
Like Snorter, I think your assertion that because only 2.6% of voters voted for you, that means 97.4% of voters are against human rights is just woefully unfair to the voters. There could be any number of reasons that a voter, who agrees with you philosophically, might not vote for you. Maybe many thought you just didn't have the experience in public service. Maybe they don't disagree with what you said, but how you said it. Maybe they just didn't feel like you were a serious candidate. The list goes on.
Better luck next time.
-Skeld
7% voted for a candidate who proposed a Police "flyingsquad" which would travel about in cars and abduct and beat itinerants and hoodlums in the street.
1.7% supported a candidate who said there wasnt a problem but we had existing laws that simply needed enforcing when there was.
22% supported a candidate who had no policies, said that human rights were little more than pie-in-the-sky thinking, and was a Public Figure in charge of Hunting Canetoads(He won by the way).
35.5% Prefered to stay at home and take a fine for failing to vote.
I am the only one ever to stand on this...
Human Rights belongs at every level of government.
Unfortunately It begins with me offering the People of Darwin the right to vote on every act of Government, Law, Constitution, Sovereign.
Please define the following terms:
"every act of Government, Law, Constitution, Sovereign" &
"Human Rights."I'm beginning to think that your definition of these terms and my definition are different.
-Skeld
I have a degree in Political Science, one in Legal Studies, and working on Law for all that's worth, but even I don't care about every act of government.
I don't know how big your town/city is, but I couldn't give a crap about them say changing the speed limit from 35 to 45 on Old West Rd. or deciding that there should be a new playground area at a park across town that I never go to.
The average person just doesn't care about every act of government. The average American doesn't care about 80% of what our government does. It's sad, but wife, kids, family, work, money things that are pressing down on you seem more important than governmental acts unless they effect your every day life.
A government that governs the best governs the least.
Sorry you didn't win. Have you tried lying? I hear that works.
Fizz
Have you tried lying? I hear that works.*Chuckle*
Where'd you get your degree, Fizz? Just curious.
-Skeld
The Ted Kennedy School of Life, Law, and Hookers.
Under grad. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Working on law at Knoxville School of Law. I'm thinking of switching to Vanderbilt to be closer to family. I have the grades and got in there, but decided on UT because I was already here...not sure that was a good reason.
Fizz
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Other Methods of Government
While addressing the human rights issues apparent at a Local Government level might seem the only option to alleviating social problems, it is rarely considered.
Applying Nazism at the Local Government level
There is always a superficial focus of attention on surface issues; While Poverty, Homelessness, Suffering, Unemployment, Dispossession and Inequality are almost always ignored.
User Pays
A major tenant of modern government is that it must be paid for. The poor are unable to exploit resources to their full value and are considered therefore unequal to the wealthy. Consequently the Wealthy must be fostered over the Poor because they are capable of a greater level of economic activity and thusly are of greater interest to Officers and officials of a Government because of their capacity to pay more.
Creating a Focus for Public Anger
The Nazis focussed the hatred and anger of the populace away from the real causes of their problems (incompetent government, and exploitation and dispossession of the poor) and drew their attention to the Jewish population. Similarly the problem of a poor underclass could be disposed of by modern Local Government by (rather than employing these unemployed) attacking them as a problem that can be eliminated with more police. The homeless become “Long Grassers”, itinerants; the unemployed must be suffering from mental problems to become a burden on society; the Poor, criminals to be driven out, or Dispossessed of the right to an equal share of the benefits and obligations of citizenship.
Improving Law and Order
A major public complaint is that the populace desire increased law and order to put down “Criminal behaviour” so that they can feel “safe” walking the streets.
Removing a Focus of Public Anger
As the Nazis removed the Jewish population and shipped them off to concentration camps for disposal; Machiavelli gives as an example the murder of a despised CEO by César Borgia and the public discovery of his body in the middle of town. By comparison one might consider at the Local Government Level the employment of Police Snipers on rooftops in the CBD to shoot troublemakers and itinerants in the streets below without mercy or trial.
In both cases this is the removal through violent destruction of people who are the focus of public hatred and outrage (even those who are a superficial focus of hatred – to draw attention from failed policies and bad government), and the instilling of fear in the remaining populace that if they step out of line, they will be next.
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MORE POLICY IDEAS
1. Charge Rates on Petrol Powered Commercial Vehicles.
Charge $1000 and Every year beyond the first, increase Commercial Vehicle Rates by $1000 on Petrol Powered Vehicles. This is to encourage the change to Electric/Hydrogen cars.
2. Decentralize the CBD.
"Within Walking Distance" of Suburban Residential is the new philosophy in Commercial activity. Support The Local Suburban Shops being replaced by a single Commercial Highrise. So increase CBD Rates to force decentralization.