"in these presidential talking head style elections, MMP 'electorate participation'  has been found wanting; failing equity, evidence and ethics. Just where was the local debate on electorate and communitarian issues?"

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This ugly name-calling diverts attention away from the science and analysis. If we are failing in our duty to minimise harm, we are responsible for maximising consequences.

Drug policy rather than being an asset is now a public liability.

Ignorance might be excused if the chaos and disorder, the inexplicable community, national and international matrix of dysfunction we call the failure of prohibition wasn't occurring on their watch!

Further, it discourages public insight into the broad policy brief that the candidate brings to the table. Well? here is your chance to exploit the new media. Share this knowledge amongst your colleagues and friends. Lets pursue sustainable wealth creation and work towards strengthening individual and community well-being together.

The party's will tell you 'its the party vote who decides who gets into parliament'.

VOTE BLAIR Here.... and YOU DECIDE who gets into parliament. Turn MMP on its head!.

I am not doing this to 'get elected'... in a robust democratic system there will always be 'also rans'. That is the nature of the beast. But it is your democratic right to know and choose and thus demonstrate constructively the weighting YOU want applied 'in the house'. Every vote sends a signal.

Over the next few days I will list some of the intersectorial issues and link to them here... and you can follow some of my commentary (and give feedback) at blairsblog@mildgreens.com

• Justice, Crime and Law and Order.
  • I am going to compile here some interesting graphs from the revealing Lord Birt Prime Minister [Blair] 's Strategy report that demonstrates how and where crime is manifested, and how the report mocks the calls for more police, more prisons and of course more sensible sentencing. (don't you just loath politicians who profess to have the right answers to solving the problem that is occurring on their watch!, lets stop rewarding failure and demand interventions with success written all over them)

• 	The cost of prohibition as measured by contribution to class of crime, the very area that is non-reported. These graphs are from Prime Minister Blair's Strategy report, prepared by Lord Birt (former BBC CEO). They clearly demonstrate how failed drug policy(s) is a cost to society inequitably borne by everyone. The cost is an indirect burden tax disproportionalty applied upon those who have nothing to do drugs or drug taking. The consequence of having politicians simplistically debase the evidence manufactures the very fears that encourages 'tough on crime' sentiment and thus rewards political incompetence in a never ending cycle of harms.
  	This why we should not reward politicians for failure, rather, vote to encourage success.
  	The Science says that drug testing for cannabis at the roadside is nothing more than a fraud rendered upon everyone to achieve nothing. As scary as that might be to the few who believe 'we have to do everything we can' to keep stoned drivers off the road, there is a paucity of evidence roadside testing will achieve that aim or accomplish anything more than alienation from healthy driving behavior. It is unmistakably like 'revenue earning' policing. Predicated on the lie that detecting cannabis metabolites(residue) has a correlation to impairment. Roadside testing for cannabinoids is the logical equivalent of licking someone's exhaust pipe to see if they have exceeded the speed limit yesterday.

Health,

children's health

support reintroducing a universal child allowance.

mental health... equity, equity, equity!

addiction, a consequence of pain and suffering. It is about behavior, resolution and self empowerment, not a disease that needs treatment.

depression/anxiety 'burden of dysfunction' costs us dearly.

Economic,

equity

Environment,

Every 'party' talks up energy efficiency, sustainable transport etc. but few candidates have the science and social context of 'what's broken' in Christchurch like 'the market model for biofuels in New Zealand' [EECA consultant 2001] Air Quality and Public Health...see my BioSAFE proposal to Ecan CCC and others.

You'll find the candidates active engagement in 'a bewildering array of science and environmental issues' (CHCH PRESS mayoral campaign human resource analysis).

key among these are topical Resource Management Issues in Canterbury:

* reducing soil erosion (hemp, no till)
* rehabilitating contaminated sites (biodiesel and hemp)
* restoring wetland areas (styx, brooklands lagoon)
* improving water quality(nitrate mitigation)
* encouraging efficient use of water
* managing conflicts about access to rivers and lakes(land access bill)
* encouraging conservation of rare animals and plants(Ok, whose not a greenie?)
* managing conflicts between recreational activities and amenity values
* developing energy efficient housing(Biosafe)
* reducing discharges of contaminants into the air(Biosafe)
* developing energy efficient forms of transport(BioSafe)
* biosecurity (varroa management, ant -IRFA and Argentinian)
* reducing climate change (Biosafe) *and more

Policy work on Employment, Education, Youth  Submissions as lobbied before select committee and more.

Vote Blair Here (well, the campaign is over but I'll keep this here for a couple more months....)

Standing for common sense, harm reduction, human rights, science, compassion, and truth!

The only Ilam electorate candidate who is standing behind his name. All the rest hide behind the skirt of "party politics"... by all means, give them your well considered list vote. Your input is important.

BUT CONSIDER?

The party's will tell you 'its the party vote who decides who gets into parliament'.

VOTE BLAIR Here.... and YOU DECIDE who gets into parliament. Turn MMP on its head!.

I am someone who is greener than GREEN, more ACT than ACT, more Labour than Labour... even more National than National across the broad policy spectrum. I guarantee robust and evidence based debate and electoral representation non-aligned to party dogma but consistent with policy analytic standards. I also undertake the solemn promise that as an ELECTORATE elected candidate I will consult YOU the voter. You become both fully informed and the architects of policy that affects your electorate...

Ring me on 027 265 7219... and ask where I stand on anything.

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your Ilam Electorate Vote!

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Howard Frumkin, M.D. Dr.P.H., FACP, FACOEM
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health.