@dchengnzh Derek ChengNat's billboard defacing co-ordinated by Jolyon White, the husband of Russel Norman's EA.@RusselNorman has rung Key to apologise#votenz
Oh dear; and the Greens were doing SO well in the polls too. There's more to come on this story...
UPDATE: It seems that this is another harpooning by the one and only Whaleoil...
UPDATE II: Russel Norman is doing his level best to distance the Greens from this debacle, but he doesn't sound convincing; Stuff notes:
Norman said he had spoken to Key this morning to inform him about what he knew and to apologise on behalf of the Green Party.
He also offered assistance to rectify the damage.
Norman also apologised to National members who had donated their time to erect the billboards.
"I know how many volunteers' hours go into putting up and maintaining billboards having done much of it myself."
The Greens had notified the Electoral Commission and offered to assist with any inquiries they undertake.
The police had not been notified but were likely to speak to White once his name was in the public domain.
The party did not support the actions and were not aware that White was behind them until this morning, Norman said.
White was not an active member of the Greens and used private networks to co-ordinate the vandalism.
Norman said his executive assistant had known about her partner's plans for about two months and he was disappointed with her for not mentioning it.
It was an employment issue but the party had not spoken to Parliamentary services about the matter.
Norman said of all political parties, the Greens were the most acutely aware of the impact of such activities, seemingly a reference to a leaflet smear campaign against the party in 2005 by the Exclusive Brethren.
"It is my deep wish for this election to be fought clean and fair on the issues that face New Zealand."
Oh no; not the Exclusive Brethren!
19 comments:
Yes, A shame there are some idiots out there ruining things for others. Well done Russell for fronting up and being transparent. Very unlike Key and Banks.
BTW Cameron Slater is not someone to look up to. Far from it. But that's just my opinion.
Yes, Russel is a ReGular guy.
They've only 'fessed up because Whale caught them.
Another trophy for Whale's wall. I applaud him for the fantastic work he does showing up the nasty parties.
I'm predicting this will cost the greens at least two out of their (until now) possible 15 seats.
Nothing on the TeaPot tapes content. I've heard... it is a game changer.
"Nothing on the TeaPot tapes content. I've heard... it is a game changer."
Ye, I also heard Labours superannuation policy and raising the retirement age announcements would be “Game-Changers”, when they announced them.
Anything said by a politician or MSM should be taken with a very large grain of salt.
Re the teapot tapes. Better taken with sugar and a scone than salt. The salt in this case is being rubbed into the wounded pride of Epsom and the rest of the country's voters.
Couldn't have said it any better INV2:
OH NO, NOT THE EXCLUSIVE BRETHREN!
That cult is dangerous.
BWHAAAAA
where is bObby G when you need hime .. go the whale
Jabba,
I think RG is amongst us from reading the comments above.
It'll be interest to see how this is reported on the news at 6 tonight. They've been stirring up a storm in a tea cup trying to get something out of an illegal recording act, here's another illegal act - will the attempt to generate agitation about this one be as vigorous?
no nellie you ninny because key cocked up with a bending of the truth where russell played with a straight bat
“Anyone who is innocent has nothing to fear”.
John Key on surveillance and privacy breaches.
Inv2: You seem to attracted the rent-a-troll crowd again.
Do you notice the pattern - anything bad about the Greens, and out they hop.
Pathetic 'team green', not even a pass.
If this were an exam your mark would be 'D' and the comment would be 'whilst the student is enthusiastic, little appreciation of the reality of the subject is shown, leading to a banal discourse and the present low mark'
anonymous at3:31 - and what truth did John Key bend?
@ Ross; he Greens have an alert system; when anything adverse to the Greens gets discussed in the blogosphere, members who have signed up to join the team get an e-mail to scurry over and join the discussion. For this they earn a Green version of Brownie points! That probably explains all the pathetic attempts to turn a post about Green skullduggery into an anti-John Key post.
Future off-topic posts will be deleted.
Inv2: Thanks for that - I am well appraised of the Greens social media tactics this election, and their "greenie points".
Hence my comments and giving them a gentle serve.
Their tactics are all a bit desperate and try hard - can't take any genuine criticism, poor little lambs...
Dead right Ross; here's the link to it, just so all the Doubting Thomases don't think we're telling porkies about the Greens
https://my.greens.org.nz/greenmachine/become-an-online-activist
"and what truth did John Key bend?"
Well, at a minimum he lied about what s&p said and he compared himself to the family of Millie Dowler, which wasn't even an approximation of the truth. Man, that tape must be explosive. A bit more important than a bit of fun with some ugly ass bill boards IV2 and the fat hall monitor are desperately spinning over...
Anonymous at 10.24 said:
"A bit more important than a bit of fun with some ugly ass bill boards IV2 and the fat hall monitor are desperately spinning over...
That is a whole lot of anger you have there over getting caught having a "bit of fun" vandalising someone else's property.
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