DA People (Posters)

Serqet said:
I don't see why we are basing votes on what the poster looks like? Shouldn't we be more concerned with their policies and overall manifesto. Who cares who the cute chick on the poster is.
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Well if I focused on policies and overall manifesto I'd vote ANC - whose ideals are closest to my own - but I'm not going to vote for them because I know about the people involved - I know who I'd be voting for and I don't approve.

This isn't about what the posters look like, it's about knowing who the DA
candidates are. If the 'cute chick on the poster' is going to be tasked with fulfilling the DA promises then I want to know more about her before voting for her. If she is not involved then I want to know who is involved and why are they not on the poster, so I know who they are and can recognise them.

I mean, initially I saw the poster and just wondered who she was, it had nothing to do with deciding who to vote for, elections or anything. But now that I'm finding no-one else knows I'm a bit concerned...
 
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But their website has a list of the candidates and a short blurb on each of them. Those will be the people fufilling the roles.
 
No but you could contact them and ask them who are the people who are in the poster. I don't live in Cape Town so i can't tell you. I've only seen posters of Helen Zille.
 
joelus said:
Whatever - putting someones face on an official party poster is different to some guy standing on the street and you know it. I want to know who they are and I'm going to continue to assume they are candidates rather than that the DA is misleading people.
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You know what they say about assumptions right?

joelus said:
If I was going to vote for a party based purely on the ideals they believe in, rather than the actual people involved in the organisation then I would vote ANC.
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Then thats your call. If you believe that they are upstanding and can practise what they preach in the next few years, then voting for them is the right thing for you to do.
 
Serqet said:
No but you could contact them and ask them who are the people who are in the poster. I don't live in Cape Town so i can't tell you. I've only seen posters of Helen Zille.
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Looks like that's what I'll have to do :-)

(I was just wondering when I got into work this morning, as I passed the posters on my way in - so I thought I would just ask here since I know that there are many DA supporters on the forum - I didn't really expect no one would know!)
 
joelus said:
This isn't about what the posters look like, it's about knowing who the DA
candidates are. If the 'cute chick on the poster' is going to be tasked with fulfilling the DA promises then I want to know more about her before voting for her. I.
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Fair point. But it looks like the DA people here don't know much about their candidates. Last I heard (few months back) that most DA senior leaders were retiring or leaving politics to something else.
 
Well why i understand your point i don't see how it makes a difference. I know what the policies and manifesto is for the DA. The candidate will implement that since that is the party's policy. So if it is Joe Soap or Mark Brown they will still have to follow the same thing.
 
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Serqet said:
Well why i understand your point i don't see how it makes a difference. I know what the policies and manifesto is for the DA. The candidate will implement that since that is the party's policy. So if it is Joe Soap or Mark Brown they will still have to follow the same thing.
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Suppose DA wins the elections, will Joe or Mark Brown handle the Dept of Finance?
DA doesn't want to repeat what the ANC did, does it?
 
Good point! Great now i've got to go research everyone. I thought i had just cleared up who i was going to vote for. Back to the drawing board!
 
Heita_Hola said:
Suppose DA wins the elections, will Joe or Mark Brown handle the Dept of Finance?
DA doesn't want to repeat what the ANC did, does it?
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Exactly, what if Joe Soap is a gangster from the cape flats. I think we'd rather have Mark Brown handling the Dept of Finance! Unless he's related to J Arthur Brown in which case we might have second thoughts about voting for him!
 
In SA, you don't vote for a person (like you do in the US), but you vote for a party. The ANC party have shown us they are incapable of running this country. Time for a new party.
 
Kalvaer said:
Agree'ed. I thought that in the new South Africa we were over that BS already.

People shouldn't vote for somebody based on the colour of their skin, they should vote for people based on what the political party is promising to bring to the table if elected (Which of course, I still have to see a single party in SA ever do but not the point)
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sa is all about the race
unless you have been living cozily under a boulder.

don't think we can base our vote
only on what the parties are promising.
most of it is bull twak & all of them promise the same thing anyway.
crime, corruption, jobs, blah, blah, lies, more lies,...
 
vote for anyone, just don't vote for the ANC. the ANC will win this election, but if they get less than 60% majority, it's a win for South African democracy. ;)
 
Its scary that somebody like Mo Shaik(dodgy) goes to a University to speak about Zuma and thousands of students show up to listen and applaud when he suggests that the NPA might drop the charges against Zuma. These are meant to be so called "educated" individuals.
 
capetownguy said:
Its scary that somebody like Mo Shaik(dodgy) goes to a University to speak about Zuma and thousands of students show up to listen and applaud when he suggests that the NPA might drop the charges against Zuma. These are meant to be so called "educated" individuals.
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A lot of educated people in Zimbabwe as well and they still keep voting for Bob.
 
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