Let the sign wars begin ...
July 1 signalled the start of the rundown to the Referendum when Toowoomba City Council will permit Referendum advertising signs to be placed around Toowoomba.
Toowoomba is likely to be festooned in Yes and No signs.
Expect plenty of fun and games as signs are placed in incorrect locations or without proper authorisation.
Identifying oneself with the No campaign has already led to verbal abuse by those close to the Yes campaign. Expect more of these antics as No signs are placed outside businesses and homes.
Toowoomba City Council does not seem to understand that every time someone connected to the Yes campaign abuses someone in Toowoomba for intending to vote No, that person tells one person of the abuse who tells another person etc etc.
A strong Yes campaign leader would have a zero tolerance policy for opposition abuse, knowing how damaging it is to the Yes campaign.
That's a free hint to the Yes campaign, but it's doubtful they will take any notice ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 8:47 AM
4 Comments:
Not only do they have all of OUR MONEY to spend ($700,000) but now we can-not put up a NO sign in a prime locations because this lot will resort to scare tactics to pull them down.
Shame, Shame on all of the Six Pack of Singapore Sewer Sippers.
The 29th July is looming and you will know your fate.
10:35 AM, July 02, 2006
It's true - it becomes the battle of the signs - but it's just a lot of Yes and No's - as if the appearance of a word is going to magically change a voter's mind.
11:46 AM, July 04, 2006
Foul language?
Threatening gestures?
Scaring the children?
The Thorley camp take the lies back on line. Must be realising that there is more traffic on the blogs than on their website.
There are plenty who will attest that this just didn't happen.
Like most things the Yes case champions say - they just make it up.
We all know who is the first to resort to absolutely foul language.
Just ask the Chief Engineer or the ex-CEO.
That's the amusing thing - everyone knows it.
And are Council's Yes forums really just for giving information, and not to push the yes case?
Pull the other one - it's got bells on it!
This is the same group who gave themselves $465,000 of our money to push their case and gave nothing to the No case.
Do the Council's information sessions tell you that they don't have the hydrology reports or that there have not really examined the other options? Do they tell you about the project deficiencies? Do they tell you Acland Coal hasn't signed up for the RO waste stream. Look at their video. It's all slanted to try to convince you to accept the Mayor's project.
And scaring the children?
The No campaign has not gone into schools and frightened the children by telling them the water would run out by Christmas.
The No campaign didn't threaten to drag the kids out of their homes and march them through the streets.
The No campaign isn't in the habit of belittling 12 year old debaters who don't agree with their view.
The Thorley team's last gasp effort is to try to convince people that the leading No campaigners are all evil.
Standard political stuff.
However, to run that argument convincingly you need to have the moral high ground and Mayor Thorley's tactics from day one ceded that to her opposition.
On 29 July, you get the opportunity to tell Mayor Thorley and her Yes team what you think of all their lies. Send them packing.
Thanks for your comments though - provides another opportunity to dispel the Thorley lies.
12:50 PM, July 06, 2006
Watching the site users is sometimes quite revealing.
TCC logs on to write a comment. Probably emails USQ about it as they then log on to read it. Then TCC logs on again to check if there is any response.
So amateurish it would be funny - if it wasn't costing ratepayers $7,000 a day for them to play these games.
1:28 PM, July 06, 2006
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