VOTERS’ BLOCK NUMBERS 18,000
The Voters’ Block of TAP (Tasmanians Against the Pulpmill) now turns its attention to local and federal politics.
18,000 citizens of Tasmania have pledged a declaration which states that they will not vote for any politician who voted for the pulp mill in the Tamar Valley.
A questionaire has been sent to all people who have elected to stand in the federal and/or local Tamar Valley municipal elections.
TAP WILL support those who have elected to not support the mill and WILL campaign for them.
TAP will NOT support those who voted for the pulpmill and will work AGAINST them.
Names of those who we support will be presented as questionaires are returned.
We have emails requesting who to vote for in the local elections. We only got the list of candidates (without contact details) last week. Letters have been written but replies have been few but, so far, we can say …
TAP SUPPORT IS GIVEN TO:
Launceston
Albert van Zetten, Mayor
Ted Sands, Mayor
Rosemary Armitage, Deputy Mayor
Danny Gibson
Ian Norton
Jeremy Ball
Martin Cole
Ray Shipp
Frank Nott
George Town
Jim Welsh, MAYOR
Heather Barwick, Mayor and council
Sven Wiener
Alan Russack
Dr Andreas Ernst (apologies as we left him off the last one)
Graeme Neilsen
West Tamar
Karl Stevens
Estelle Ross
Kim Corbett
Viv Tyson
Mark Price
Vivian Tyson
Robin Cochrane
(Any other candidates that are against the mill please let us know)
Readers can see on www.tapvision.info the answers given by local council candidates to 6 questions asked by TAP about the pulp mill and its impacts. Eleven statements have been posted so far.
Buck and Joan Emberg
For: Voters’ Block of Tasmanians
Against the Pulpmill
Underwood, Tas
www.tapvision.info
