About Jenny Michie

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About Jenny Michie:

Jenny-MichieJenny has been an activist in the Labour movement for 20 years.

She cut her teeth as an organizer for the EPMU where she was instrumental in the 1998 ‘Mad Max’ Bradford campaign against selling holidays – the first win for the union movement since the introduction of the Employment Contracts Act in 1991.

She was a speech writer for Dr Michael Cullen in the first few years of the 5th Labour led government when the speed of the right to organize around the ‘winter of discontent’ shocked the left, but shouldn’t have.

Head hunted from Cullen’s office by the two Mikes (Williams and Smith) she then spent eight years as organiser, communications and 2IC at Fraser House, HQ of the NZ Labour Party. Highlight was the 2005 direct mail campaign in which Jenny and her colleague David Talbot designed and executed an ambitious project involving over 800,000 pieces of direct mail processed by hundreds of volunteers at the ‘Factory’ and distributed by more volunteers to people who had enrolled but not voted in the 2002 election. This effort pushed Labour over the line and Mike Williams’ brainchild is now standard operating procedure for the Party.

Jenny ran the campaign HQ for the 2009 by-election which saw David Shearer enter Parliament with a higher majority than his predecessor Helen Clark. After leaving the Party in 2010 Jenny spent several years with the PSA; as a policy advisor and then with Conor Twyford, running the 2011 PSA election campaign putting public spending vs. debt on the national agenda.

Jenny ran the Hawke’s Bay by-election HQ for Labour’s Meka Whaitiri campaign and was part of David Cunliffe’s leadership campaign team until, in giddy 24 hour news -cycle; she was infamously stood down after accusations of homophobia by Clare Curran.

She has two properly grown up children, two younger step-children and an idiot border collie that will never grow up.

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