The NOW Famous Postcard

Well! It all went off yesterday when National Party decided to announce that CAFCA's anti-privatisation postcard was in breach of the Electoral Finance Act. To refresh your memories this is what the postcard was all about:

Privatisation is a major issue in this election. Though National promises no asset sales in its first term in office, it is already promising to privatise ACC by introducing commercial competition, even though research shows that publicly owned ACC is one of the cheapest such schemes, with one of the best range of benefits, in the world. Labour, while deserving credit for undoing some of the disastrous privatisations of the past, is toying with "Public-Private Partnerships" in the proposed huge Waterview roading development in Auckland.What do the other parties and candidates intend?

CAFCA has created postcards that supporters and members can send to any MP (post free) or to any election candidate to state your opposition to privatisation in all its forms. The wording of the cards is below. These are for you or friends to sign and post; the card will be you stating your views on this important issue to the people (from any political party) who want to be your political representatives. If you don't like the wording of the cards and oppose privatisation, we urge you to write in your own words to your MPs and would-be representatives.
If you would like to have some postcards, email or write to us at the address below. We ask for a koha to help cover costs. If you want large numbers, we will let you know what the costs will be.

Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA)
PO Box 2258
Christchurch
Aotearoa/New Zealand
email: cafca@chch.planet.org.nz

If you want to read more about the perils of privatisation, see some of the presentations from the Privatisation by Stealth conference we ran in March, and other material on this web site.

The postcards state:

Dear ....................,

I don’t want my school run by a private equity corporation.
I don’t want my airport owned by a foreign pension fund.
I don’t want my hospital managed by an insurance company.
I don’t want my port or railways owned by a transnational corporation.
I don’t want my roads operated by an investment bank.
I believe that continued full public New Zealand ownership and control of New Zealand public assets and infrastructure is extremely important.
I will not be voting for any candidate or party who supports full or partial privatisation of our public assets and infrastructure.

Signature: ................................................................................
Date:
Name: ............................................................................................ Address:.........................................................................................