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This is a selection of tweets about the application of the US political term ‘Beltway’ to New Zealand politics, and in particular to the Labour Party and the leadership contest. The most recent tweets are first.
Colin Craig says that if Labour really wants to be beltway they need to led parents belt their kids..
With everyone chucking around 'beltway' today has anyone come up with a workable Wellington beltway term (my suggestion was 'town beltway')
Kaiser Chillhelm @AceMcWicked
LOL at political hacks and assorted partisan weirdos talking about other people being 'beltway'
Will de Cleene @ZippyGonzales
Colour me stupid, but I presumed Wellington's Beltway stemmed from the Green Belt encompassing Roseneath to Wadestown.
Curwen Ares Rolinson @huntersrolinson
making a West Wing joke probably not right way for Grant Robertson to ditch "beltway" image...
"Beltway" makes crossing the street in Wellington sound more like wankery than anything important. People should stop using the term
Wellington doesn't have a beltway. They've modestly minor motorways that sometimes jam. They do have people short of metaphors.
'The Beltway' refers to the ring-road around Washington DC. Wellington doesn't have one (nor does Auckland - yet)...#nzpols
Beltway politician? Cunliffe has only ever spent less than 4 years in the private sector is like the pot calling the kettle black
Is referencing the West Wing, itself beltway? "Robertson dismissed Mr Cunliffe's 'beltway'comment ... "... watched too much West Wing."
I still laugh every time I see Kiwis referring to the "Beltway". Sorry Wellington, you've got nothing on Washington DC dysfunction :P #nzpol
Hmmm, how about "Town Beltway"?
"Bowen Triangle" not "Beltway"
Washington has a beltway. Maybe the circles in Canberra are beltways. But State Highways 1 & 2 are not. There is no beltway in Wellington.
> Charles Finny @charles_finny
@RMAHarman Yes it is interesting that the one person who actually worked many years inside the real beltway is D Cunliffe!!
Campbell Live @CampbellLiveNZ
Our David Cunliffe interview from last night - including the "Beltway" bit: http://www.3news.co.nz/tvshows/campbelllive/cunliffe-open-to-robertson-as-deputy-2014092920 …
@CampbellLiveNZ for those general members of public who have no idea what beltway is, can you explain? Reporters seem to think we all have..
> Campbell Live @CampbellLiveNZ
@RogerNZ2 It's a Washington term. People within the Beltway are generalised as political insiders, more than usually connected & interested.
"Beltway" was a term for years but not inserted into local discourse till House of Cards US came out. So we're not even emulating real life.
Jessica Williams @mizjwilliams
so Labour caucus tomorrow. In the red corner: the Herne Bay Hermit. In the slightly-less-red corner, the Beltway Babies. Gloves off.
Patrick Gower @patrickgowernz
Chris Hipkins facts show how "Beltway" ABC/Team Grant is. Plotting comes first, NZ voters last.
Patrick Gower @patrickgowernz
Chris Hipkins is a beltway plotter obsessed with getting Grant Roberston elected. Doesn't want MPs to talk, didn't want party-wide vote.
Beltway babes in hot political action
Rebecca Matthews @RebeccaJEmm
I grew up in Akld and was just as "beltway" there as I am now living in Welly. It's called being interested in politics.
Robertson and Davis would be a formidable ticket. And less beltway than Robertson Ardern.
Robertson-Ardern ticket would be characterised as 2 ex-Clark staffer beltway careerists running Labour.
Jessica Williams @mizjwilliams
"Beltway baby" - you'd have to ask the people who coined it, but I think they mean politicians who have only ever worked in parliament.
Kaiser Chillhelm @AceMcWicked
Wellington doesn't have a 'beltway'. Well, it has similar roading systems to a beltway in some parts but nowhere near Parliament. True Facts
Bryce Edwards
Wed, 01 Oct 2014
Wed, 01 Oct 2014
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