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To: KyrosL who wrote (10834)	10/30/2006 1:35:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219951

But Kyros, if somebody has $10 bn and gives it to Al Gore to get me to vote for him and no carbon dioxide emissions, how does he make me vote for him? I walk into the ballot box and vote for Rodney Hide, who I prefer, and who won't support such a dopey idea as stopping CO2 production and getting CO2 levels back to industrial revolution levels. If people are persuaded to vote for some ideology because there are lots of advertisements, then that's their choice. I don't buy the idea that deep pocketed lobbyists can get their way against the will of the electorates. Any time they like, everyone in the USA and NZ can vote Libertarian. They don't because they are thieving bludgers and they like the current system. Helen Clark's gang stole nearly NZ$1 million to advertize themselves - Libertarians didn't have their hand in the till and Helen Clark wasn't giving them any money, so the "rich lobby" theory would be that that's why Libertarianz lost. But it isn't. They lost because Kiwis don't like the ideas [if they have considered them at all and can understand them]. Mqurice