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merc

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:59:18 +1200

Damn that's Matthew.

merc

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:58:37 +1200

Thanks Mathew.

Matthew Hooton

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:33:07 +1200

Don

The quote is on page two of the formal letter from the Police (Ian Kain) to the Chief Electoral Officer (David Henry) dated 20 March 2006 reporting on the result of their "investigation". It has been released under the Official Information Act widely, including to me, and I have…

Brent Jackson

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:20:22 +1200

Great explanation Matthew. Thanks a lot for taking the time to share it with us.

Don Christie

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:07:42 +1200

With Craig on this, BTW. Integrity of the system is what counts.

Don Christie

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:06:00 +1200

Nice round up Matthew, thanks. Do you have a link to the source for this quote?:

"Police have not identified any offences in relation to these complaints and will not be taking these matters further."

Russell Brown

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:40:37 +1200

I promise never to post such a long comment here again.

Happy to have it.

BTW, Nielsen NetRatings consistently places Public Address the #1 website in the country for time spent on each page ...

Craig Ranapia

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:52:56 +1200

All this is in a way ancient history, but there is still a lot of anger on both sides

Sure, Matthew, and I think it's also fair to poiint out that there are people "on both sides" who are angry that both National and Labour didn't have the book thrown…

Matthew Hooton

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:53:05 +1200

Don/Graeme – I have studied this matter in some detail and may be able to assist in bridging the gap between you.

1. On the matter concerning the campaign by seven businessmen who were members of the Exclusive Brethren, the Chief Electoral Officer was sufficiently concerned to refer the matter…

Don Christie

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:05:14 +1200

Graeme – now you are disseminating. Of course attacking the Greens is not illegal. Just as attacking any party is not illegal.

It was the method of attack.

Just to refresh your tainted memory.

Re-writing history does your cause no favours, that's all I am saying.

WH

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:22:02 +1200

I haven't had an opportunity to review the bill, but I have heard some of the complaints doing the rounds. If HC is to be believed, I might wait to see what emerges from the select committee's review.

I suppose I'm (relatively) more familiar with the campaign finance reform debate…

Graeme Edgeler

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:18:42 +1200

Don – as I understand it, two of the EB's pamphlets were tainted with some sort of illegality – both to do with improper authorisation statements (one which carried an address which was neither the residential or business address of the person authorising it, and one which the person responsible…

Don Christie

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:44:13 +1200

I tripped over this:

2. The Campaign by Members of the Exclusive Brethren Church
For the most part, this was perfectly legal

vs this

4. Labour's Breach of the Election Spending Cap

These glib "certainties" undermine your case.

Craig Ranapia

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:50:23 +1200

First, Graeme, thanks to you and your colleagues at COG for the sterling work – don't agree with all of your conclusions, but you're adding value to the debate. It's certainly going to clarify and focus some aspects of my submission.

The really sad thing about this bill is that…

Kyle Matthews

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:34:41 +1200

I resisted the temptation to go back and make sure I spelt your name tie right way, and clearly made the wrong decisions. My bad.

Add me to the list of people wondering when the long rumoured edit feature will be here.

Kyle Matthews

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:31:34 +1200

A good post Graham. I was impressed enough to make a 2 minute submission, very harmless.

Public Address

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:31:34 +1200

Discussion from blog post.