Another good question. Usually, you'd say no, but then this election campaign has been anything other than usual to date! And National has had a couple of VERY high-profile endorsements today as John Key has headed to South Auckland again. The Herald notes:John Key said the endorsement from Jones and Tuigamala was a very important step towards National gaining the traditionally Labour Pacific vote.
"It sends a strong message that they (Jones and Tuigamala) are standing up as young leaders in their community, giving support to a National government and endorsing our view.
"We think Labour has been guilty of taking that support for granted", said Key.
And this gem came from Inga the Winger:
"We don't want our people just working in factories", said Tuigamala. "We want them starting to own those factories."
Perhaps it will take more than KFC for Labour to retain its share of the PI vote on Saturday!!
UPDATE: Espiner (G) reckons this was a gold moment for Key, and the PM's only response was to revisit the Lockwood Smith words, which, taken in context, were nothing but factual.
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I understand the Nats were deeply involved in the Southern Cross school concept way back, Lockwood Smith a leading player as Minister of Education, even. Paying long term dividends to the country (and the Nats) if these guys are the kind of graduates they have been producing!
I2 Welcome back
I agree with you, here is my take
http://adamsmith.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/9340/
and Field will make some decent inroads as well. He's a lot like winston - outside his core constituency he is seen as a joke, but in his market has a lot of support.
Taito I think has a huge following in Mangere. The amount of cars with Pacific party flags on them is astonishing.
These two are wonderful examples of what being amibitious can achieve and their message is so much better socially and ecnomically than the one from the left which encourages dependency.
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