ACT Party - Talent Tide Comes In
Talent Tide Comes In
For a year now ACT has been asked: who else other than David Seymour? This weekend the question was answered with the announcement of outstanding candidates for ACT. The top ten candidates include four business owners, a lawyer, an international cricketer, a sitting Councilor, a former police officer, five women and five men, and a spread from Warkworth to Dunedin. Between them, the top ten candidates speak seven languages.
Beth
Houlbrooke
Beth is a staunch founding member of
ACT and mother of two. She began her working life farming in
Northland before founding and selling the award-winning
company Backload Moving. Presently she is the Chair of the
Rodney Local Board, having first been elected to the board
in 2013. On current polling, ACT needs to rise only 0.2 per
cent to make Beth a Member of Parliament, and she will be a
very good one.
Brooke van
Velden
Brooke is the Greens’ young star Chloe
Swarbrick plus a degree in economics. As a university
graduate she was taken on by one of the country’s top
lobbyists, Matthew Hooton, where she helps private sector
clients navigate bureaucracy. Brooke is much more talented
than David Seymour was at the same age and is a future
leader of the party. ACT need only gain two per cent of the
vote to elect Brooke.
Bhupinder
Singh
'Bhups' is well known in cricket circles
as a spin bowler for the Auckland Aces, who rose as high as
playing for New Zealand ‘A.’ He works as a real estate
agent for Ray White and owns a construction business. He is
a father of two and well known for his coaching of kids
cricket and leadership in the Sikh
community.
Stephen Berry
Stephen is a
self-made success story. He left school at 16 to become one
of Countdown’s top managers and trouble shooters. He is a
hard worker and proven vote getter, having placed third as a
rookie candidate in the 2013 Auckland mayoral election. We
are also proud to announce that Stephen is our first openly
gay top-five candidate.
Stuart
Pedersen
Stuart is a Tauranga investor and
businessman and father of two. He chairs the Bay of Plenty
Sailing Academy Trust which introduces underprivileged
children to sailing.
Anneka
Carlson
Former West Auckland cop, business
owner, and SPCA board member from New Plymouth, Anneka is a
star and another future leader of ACT.
Shan
Ng
As a trained commercial lawyer admitted to
the bar in the U.K., Malaysia, and New Zealand, Shan speaks
four languages and works in Wellington
business.
Sam Purchas
ACT on Campus
President and an Otago Microbiology Student, Sam is ACT’s
youngest and perhaps most engaging candidate.
Toni
Severin
Veteran ACT campaigner and a
Christchurch business owner, Toni rounds out ACT’s
talented top ten. Like all of our top ten candidates, Toni
would be a highly effective and talented MP.
How
we’ll get these People Elected
Recent polls
show ACT at one per cent, on the cusp of the 1.2 per cent
required to elect Beth Houlbrooke. However, a better
precedent is 2008, when ACT got to 3.5 per cent in the polls
through a robust campaign taking us from under one per cent
to victory in the final months of the campaign.
How You can Help
If you’d like to
see these talented MPs elected to parliament, please
consider joining, volunteering, or donating to
ACT.
ENDS