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Anti-austerity campaigner to run
in local elections
13.11.13
BUNCRANA man Joe Murphy
has this evening declared that he will run in the
local elections in Inishowen next May under the
People Before Profit Alliance banner.
The well known Donegal Action Against Austerity (DAA)
campaigner said his running for a seat on Donegal
County Council would give voters "an alternative,
united voice".
"The people of Donegal are ready for change and want
to move away from tired old political rhetoric to a
truly representative voice of the ordinary man and
woman in Donegal, regardless of age, gender, race or
colour," he said. |
"People Before Profit
Alliance gives me an opportunity to operate as part
of a rapidly growing national network as an
alternative to the established austerity parties
that don’t really care about the plight of the
vulnerable and the poor in the country.
"This alliance gives me the ability to have a local
voice at national level. My first allegiance is and
always will be to the principles of DAAA. People
Before Profit does not have a party whip system, as
in other parties, |
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Joe Murphy. |
and their elected
candidates are open to immediate re-call should they
not represent the best interests of their local
members.”
He said he could not "stand by any longer and watch
the devastation of our local communities in Donegal
through imposed poverty on our elderly and the
forced emigration of our youth".
He said he would put the people of Donegal "first".
"The interests of the people of Donegal will come
first with us, long before the interests of
super-wealthy bondholders, banks and large
corporations. The Fine Gael/Labour government has
made a big mistake in awakening the fire within the
belly of Donegal people," he added. |
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