Saturday 21 August 2010

Trust never sleeps - the very early morning on election day

Here's Leichhardt LNP slave Shane Ariel, helping set up the polling booth at the Redlynch State School.

I captured this photo at 2:15am, as a fury of campaign workers crawl the region. Liberal, Labor and The Greens take over the town in the dead of night, as campaigners jockey for position to get banners in the most strategic placement.

Fellow LNPer, Jake Robertson, said Shane was "striking a pose for freedom."

10 comments:

Ricky said...

Nice job Michael, outing a young man that wasn't out.

Dickhead.

MaryO said...

What's a twink?

Louise Robertson said...

I don't know about Labor and the Greens taking over the town, we didn't see any one else until 5am and even then their efforts were poor. It was clear at that time of the morning that Labor had given up - in the past there has been a much bigger fight for position.

Kaz said...

Louise what a silly sweeping comment to say Labor had already given up at that time of day. Just suits your purposes I guess, cos its also patently untrue. I set up a booth for Jim at 5.30am and was the only person there until Yodie came along around 7am to bang in 2 posters. Greens came next then the LNP just before 8am. And by the way, this is what has happened at this same booth every other election for the last several I have done it, your lot always shows up there last then bitches about not getting any of the prime spots. Get your facts right lovey.

Morrie said...

Ditto Kaz, we red-shirts were all out at our school and set up by 6am. And we were the first to have everything down and packed up at 6.15pm. Good organisation!

JKR said...

Kaz and Morrie got a sleep in then. That’s nice. The point is though that in my opinion you can gauge which way a seat is going to go by the enthusiasm of the people on the ground. My team and I had set up 10 booths for the LNP before Kaz and Morrie even got out of bed, and I can tell you that I did not see one single supporter of any of the other candidates until I got to White Rock at about 5:00am. The idea is simple: why get out of bed for a candidate that you know in your heart is going to lose?

Shane Ariel (the slave) said...

Well, nice to see myself on Cairns blog. Interestingly this photo was 'captured' by mike off Jake Robertson's facebook considering Jake was the one who took the photo. Furthermore the photo was taken at Edge Hill Primary school NOT Redlynch; I was contacted by Mike via text message while we were at Redlynch School and he was trawling the net for good photo's. He wasn't around us the entire night. At least mention your sources Mike.

As to Kaz and Morrie, the time this photo was taken was 2.15am. Thats already 2 hours into our work of setting up. So you getting to your booths first at 5.30am just shows what resources the labor machine can draw from. Took us over 8 hours to get to where you were with just our volunteer team by the sounds of things.

KitchenSlut said...

Oooh such bitchiness over such unconsequential competitive trivia! As long as YOU belived you made a difference what else matters?

However I am rather confused by the prominence in the photo of a hammer against a red background? Hmmmm very Soviet from the defenders of free entereprise?

Shane Ariel said...

Kitchenslut, read whatever symbolism into it that you want. The fact is that the photo was taken by some friends for use on a personal facebook page for a bit of fun. The fact it even made it to the wider community continues to suprise me, I consider it a damn bad photo.

And I agree with the use of red, I never liked it. Negative-style campaigning in general annoys me. I prefer to hear about actual policy choices/idea's from both sides.

KitchenSlut said...

Thanks Shane for your complete support apparently that what we were presented with was a somewhat disgusting shirade?

Entsch was a disgace only a bit less than Turnour?