Stephanie is a communications expert and campaigner who has worked in the union movement, public service and Parliament, as a political commentator, MC and YouTube board game reviewer.
Blog posts
Why citizens’ assemblies work
Citizens’ assemblies are being held up as the solution to all society’s divisive issues, but nobody’s talking about what really makes them successful.
Making waves
A great write-up of my campaign launch event appeared on Stuff today: Pole-dancing is not often used to launch political campaigns, but it seemed like a natural fit to Stephanie Rodgers – public servant, part-time pole dancing teacher, and Green candidate for the Wellington electorate of Ōhāriu. “I don’t think any electorate has seen a …
Green Party announces Stephanie Rodgers as candidate for Ōhāriu
Stephanie Rodgers has been selected as the Green Party candidate for Ōhāriu. Stephanie is a communications expert and campaigner who has worked in the union movement, public service and Parliament, as a political commentator, MC and YouTube board game reviewer. “I am so proud to have the support of my branch to provide a real …
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The Boots Theory
A lot of people wonder where the name of this blog comes from. Wonder no more! It’s taken from Terry Pratchett’s Men At Arms:
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
PS. Get some more Terry Pratchett in your life. You won’t regret it.
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