http://www.ambitgambit.com/2008/05/13/libs-need-1-million-dowry-nats-need-an-open-marriage/ Ambit Gambit Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ambitgambit.com/2008/05/13/libs-need-1-million-dowry-nats-need-an-open-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-2365 Graham Young Wed, 14 May 2008 19:26:40 +0000 http://localhost/ambit/?p=3049#comment-2365 Ah...I recall a number of candidates being let off debts when I was a Vice-President. You take a risk when you contractually load people up with the sorts of costs that they do now if they don't win. In fact, we monitored campaign fundraising monthly, and made sure that candidates had budgets that at least laid out a plan of how they would raise the money. They weren't asked to do things they couldn't do. And if they weren't performing you then had to make a hard decision as to whether they were important enough to support. This crowd ask the impossible and then complain when people who are put under pressure and given the hard sell can't perform. You shouldn't have to have a spare twenty or thirty thousand lying around just to be a Liberal Party candidate. Ah…I recall a number of candidates being let off debts when I was a Vice-President. You take a risk when you contractually load people up with the sorts of costs that they do now if they don’t win.
In fact, we monitored campaign fundraising monthly, and made sure that candidates had budgets that at least laid out a plan of how they would raise the money. They weren’t asked to do things they couldn’t do. And if they weren’t performing you then had to make a hard decision as to whether they were important enough to support.
This crowd ask the impossible and then complain when people who are put under pressure and given the hard sell can’t perform. You shouldn’t have to have a spare twenty or thirty thousand lying around just to be a Liberal Party candidate.

]]> http://www.ambitgambit.com/2008/05/13/libs-need-1-million-dowry-nats-need-an-open-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-2366 Doug Wed, 14 May 2008 14:54:54 +0000 http://localhost/ambit/?p=3049#comment-2366 "So dire is the situation that it is said that the party has instructed debt collectors to visit a number of former federal candidates to recover pledges." What else should one do with people who don't pay their debts? The state candidates are being contacted first as their debts form the lion's share of the outstanding moneys and are far longer overdue. “So dire is the situation that it is said that the party has instructed debt collectors to visit a number of former federal candidates to recover pledges.”
What else should one do with people who don’t pay their debts? The state candidates are being contacted first as their debts form the lion’s share of the outstanding moneys and are far longer overdue.

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