Posts by Tom Semmens
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Yep, so Palino lied and is in it up to his neck.
Oh man, so much stupid.
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I see Cameron Slater is now threatening threatening Brian Rudman in the comments section of Rudman’s piece on John Slater:
This is a shameless despicable defamation of my father… one you will regret Mr Rudman.
Sayeth Whaleoil (about 40-50th comment).
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Hebe,
The very graceful Simon Lusk
It is just what happens when the Hooray Henry candidate wins the seat of Napier. The whole place has turned into a nasty little nest of self-perpetuating provincial elites.
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of Italian heritage, Mr Wewege moved to New Zealand in 2011 and began moving in Auckland political circles, including joining the youth wing of the National Party...
...Mr Wewege had also been involved in the campaign for Simon O'Connor, the National MP for Tamaki.
Others described him as an acolyte of Simon Lusk, a campaign strategist for right-wing political candidates, saying he had attended several of Mr Lusk's summer camp training sessions.
Jeez, that girl can pick them!
Anyway, it is generally known amongst political afficiandoes that Lusk and Slater like to think that along with their Shai'tan Judith Collins they form one exceeding unpleasant power block within National, one that sees Lusk and Slater routinely using what seems to me to amount to a protection racket to get candidates to pay to attend "training" camps, a nice little earner for Slater and Lusk. So when it come to the taint in the National party's saiden, all roads seem to lead to Simon Lusk.
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I heard on the TV3 news that John Palino has “gone on holiday” overseas and can’t be contacted – I presume to the United States. How convenient! Running away when the going gets tough, John? What a hero. Is this perhaps the standard of accountability you would bring to the mayoralty should you ever win it? Go "on holiday" whenever any unpleasant questions are in the offing?
I hope you stay away, and takes the unsavoury Luigi with you. I also hope the media don’t let him off the hook that easily.
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The political centre-right in Auckland does seem to throw up these ambitious, self-mythologising types
It is a function of nature of the Auckland ruling class. Those born into it think it a jape to behave with a lethal buffonery that references the stupidest of the British aristocracy as role models, those that aspire to join it behave in the manner of all wannabe parvenus hoping to be accepted.
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Oh, wow.
And suddenly two more Johns – Slater and Palino – are struck down with John Banks selective memory syndrome.
Really, the whole political right in Auckland is a bunch of irredeemably frightful cads.
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Five pages? Are you serious?
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Hard News: The non-binary council, in reply to Stephen R,
and felt a bit like they think they have an opportunity to reverse the election results they didn’t like.
Well, you could observe that that waiting to unleash a ‘scandal’ until after a result you know you won’t win to try and nobble (and neutralise) the winning candidate is a piece of political filth direct from the good old USA. Since Cameron Slater’s father was John Palino’s campaign manager I expect Slater would have been privy to Palino’s polling and timed this release accordingly.
As to motive – Cameron Slater is a confirmed failure, a child born to considerable social privilege who unlike almost all of his silver-spoon peers has never been able to leverage the considerable advantages of his birth to achieve anything positive. His sullen resentment at those who have achieved has acquired the status of a mental defect. His list of enemies – of those achievers whose success (in his mind) illuminates his failure – is broad and not always just of the left. It includes many who have simply incurred his undying hatred over some perceived slight that people of a more balanced mental disposition would find trifling. By taking down those who have achieved, Slater seems to believe he will achieve the success and status he deserves by right and that has otherwise escaped him.
Personally, I have not bothered to waste my time reading the detailed salacious clap-trap on his website. By all accounts, it amounts to pornography from Slater and Cook, and I for one am not about to position myself to be an enabler of penny pornographers intent on destroying more lives. Any issues of morality are for Len Brown and his wife and children, not for me.
I don’t think he should resign. One would wish that simple decency would win out in the battle with partisan opportunism at the Herald, but given what passes as a journalism these days at that paper I don’t hold out any great hope. So Brown’s enemies in the talkback Taliban and at the Herald and on the right wing blogs will have a field day, but they are no friends of his anyway. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
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I’m not saying that political party membership is something to be ashamed of – far from it.
The problem is not this - it is candidates who know that if people knew what they really stood for they wouldn't have a shit show of getting elected, so they hide behind bland or innocuous sounding fronts.