This New Zealand Politician Unleashes One Of The Funniest Gay Marriage Speeches On Record

[Katashi_itto]

Maurice Williamson: 'Rainbow across my electorate'

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Pakuranga MP Maurice Williamson has parliamentarians roaring in their seats during the third marriage equality bill reading.

[liberalmuse]

1. After my visit to New Zealand...

I was convinced it was Mayberry. It was a place where people with spotless karma ended up. What a beautiful place with beautiful people!

[TDale313]

2. Yep. Kiwis rock.

Learned that during my Xena fan girl days

[amb123]

3. The Best Part

"One of the messages I had was that this bill was the cause of our drought. This bill was the cause of our drought. Well, if any of you follow my Twitter account, you will see that in the Pakurange electorate this morning it was pouring with rain. We had the most enormous, big gay rainbow across my electorate. It has to be a sign, sir."

[JimDandy]

4. What a guy!

Let's raise a whole bunch more like him here in the U.S.A.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

5. The fun continues

here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017112917

[BlueStreak]

6. Why can't we have politicians like this?

Alan Grayson. Henry Waxman. Bernie Sanders. Elizabeth Warren. Maybe Al Franken. That's pretty much the entire list of American politicians that could give a speech like this (on any subject).

[Peace Patriot]

10. We can thank ES&S/Diebold that we hardly have anybody who can...

...put two words together in a righteous cause, or even in their own dirty causes.

In NZ, they don't allow one. private. far rightwing-connected. corporation (ES&S, which bought out Diebold) to 'count' virtually all the votes using 'TRADE SECRET' code, with NO AUDIT AT ALL in half the states and a miserably inadequate 1% audit in the other half.

Our system is rigged to produced dumbfuck office holders. Look around!

It's obvious that NZ counts all their votes IN THE PUBLIC VENUE, along with other safeguards like limiting corporate campaign cash and insisting on decent news media.

It's sad and embarrassing, yes, but we need to face it--we really do--and start putting our democracy and our intelligent, well-educated, articulate and progressive society back together again, minus some malefactors that have been fucking us over for some time ("military-industrial complex," banksters, corporate media...).

[DeSwiss]

7. K&R

[idwiyo]

8. K&R thank you for the link and congrats to LGBTQ community in NZ and everywhere!

[SwissTony]

9. Good on the Kiwis. Common sense prevails.

Now if we Aussies can just get Julia to see sense...

[Peace Patriot]

11. Great speech! Can we clone this guy and fill Congress with his DNA?

Thanks for posting!