Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Judith spoke at my Civil Union last year (she's a friend of my wife).
There's a sentence that contradicts, surely?
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I know nothing about Tizard, though if she's next on the list she'll get in on specials.
But the comments around here in relation to her have seemed to be a bit of a case of sore winners. Good on you Russell for pointing out the other side.
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I'm not sure if this is a good play by Goff.
Telling Maori Party MPs what their voters actually wanted them to do post-election, when the Maori Party made it fairly clear they might go with National pre-election.
A hint of colonial paternalism even?
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If you allow anonymous advertising, you basically have a spending free-for-all.
Which obviously works for you, but I can't see it going down well with most politicians, or the electorate.
And money does not equate to political action. You could run a campaign for zero dollars if you spent all your time talking to people. Limits on spending only limits some types of political action - typically the ones where you can spend vast amounts of money and get an advantage.
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my objection is not the street address, it's the lack of anonymity RoO.
Because what you want is people spending money anonymously on elections? Great...
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The serious point remains: the only way to get guidance from the Electoral Commission is via a formal compliant.
Actually, I think the serious point was that you said:
On Mr Hide's jacket (apart from making the law look ridiculous) ACT needs to know how the Electoral Commission will view it for the purposes of its electoral returns in Epsom and for the Party. The only way to get this is to make the issue 'live' before the Electoral Commission by way of a complaint.
And then Russell pointed out:
Mr Hide today said he was embarrassed and pissed off at Mr Moore.
If Act wanted the Electoral Commission to rule on Hide's jacket, then Rodney Hide would have both known about it, and approved it, as the leader of the party.
What you suggested is clearly false, since he didn't know about it, and is embarrassed by it.
Mr Moore might have done it for those purposes by himself without Rodney Hide's agreement, but the story that you put forward that Act was doing it to get a ruling, is clearly crap.
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Bad Che. Naughty Che. Che needs to be taken out the back and shot!
Oh shit, sorry Craig, my bad.
(Talk about making a mountain out of a small depression in the ground where a molehill never was)
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wait for the announcement that a voucher system will be used for Maori kids.
Is that a discount voucher? Or a "buy one Maori kid, get one free" voucher?
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So does the taking of fingerprints and they do that if you are arrested even if you are not charged.
My impression was that you get fingerprinted as part of the charging process. Both times I was arrested I spent a bunch of time in the cell, then taken out and processed, photographed, fingerprinted, and given my charge sheet. And then put back into the cell until they could be bothered releasing me.
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NZ is not the kind of place where people break each others windows for their political ideas
Tell that to Helen Clark's electoral office window, which has been attacked by an axe, and been broken by a stone earlier this year.