Posts by Sofie Bribiesca
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Russell Brown,
That seems really misleading.
Certainly is. There seems to be one donation in 2007 of 150 thou. Undisclosed. That may be Donghua but Labour still wouldn't know if it was him. So the Herald,the NZ public (with it's stupid poll) The National Party, (with their OIA privilege) and Donghua (who would be the only one to know if he is the undisclosed) has no right to expect Labour to be able to defend against that as some sort of dodgy deal.I suspect National have a nasty Campaign for this Election, what else can they offer? Colin Craig(I don't need National's help but hey if they're offering would be good)?
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Russell Brown,
then presumably the $50,000 cost claimed by Liu relates to all the other people (ie: Liu’s company staff) invited along too.
I have serious doubts about the honesty of calling that a $50,000 gift to the Labour Party.Perception means a lot in China. I think if you take all your staff, you could impress them all with showing your friend in high places then as the old Chinese whispers grows so do you. But also .....
"A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.”
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to BenWilson,
Hey, I’ll give you a heads up ;0
Here’s a National Party Policy, Colin Craig gets East coast Bays.David Seymour gets Epsom. There’s some policy for ya. -
Hard News: The Letter, in reply to ,
Andrew Geddis has written a useful blog post in response to the latest news:
Sofie Bribiesca agrees with that.;)
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Chris Waugh,
I don’t doubt that Donghua Liu would have donated to Labour in 2007 if he had the dosh. They were in power then and that seems to be the circles he likes to move in. The old tried and true “but Labour did it too” is bound to cause fuel for the fire.That all of this is being drip fed, via National, Donghua, and the Herald, seems to be just another attack on Labour to me. The donations ,secret trust/ donors/ anonymous situation seems something very much worth discussing as the Greens have been calling for, for sometime now. The fact that Labour may have done their best to compete with the big hitters that National enjoy is no big deal at all, the fact that the OIA requests are releasing anti Labour propaganda and holding back the National equivalent seems suspect to me. If National are not engaging in dirty tricks, I’d eat my hair!
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Chris Waugh,
And so now we have something that might actually be somewhat scandalous.
How so? As long as it was declared in the 2007 return and there is a $150,000.00 one that is on behalf of Solicitors and there is at least $300,000.00 in donations anonymously, how is that a scandal. The donations are legit and Donghua liu may well have given it to Labour. OToH , $60,000.00 for a trip up the Yangtze? Someone's getting ripped off there. ;)
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There is also $ 315,000.00 in anonymous donations in 2007. all declared though but some of it or all of it may have come from Liu and Labour would still not have known.
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Russell Brown,
The fact that the donation can’t be found is alarming
looking at the donations for 2007 and other years, I have come up with the same conclusion as Andrew Geddis
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to BenWilson,
And when it comes to “wrongdoing”, there is always very little genuine perspective. Partisans from each side will point out the horrible enormity of whatever happened, and people come away with a “well OK multiple murder is certainly worse than a single one, but they’re still both murderers” kind of reasoning.
I think it is correct to bring to the public’s attention of any wrongdoing (if you like ,"mudslinging”). All politicians should be accountable but it’s another thing to be dishonest to score points. For example, Williamson and Collins were found to have feathered their own nests and used taxpayer funds and lie to the public. That’s wrong. That’s abuse of power. Cunliffe signed a letter doing his job as a member of Parliament in his electorate office because of an enquiry by an agent representing Donghua Liu. Seems pretty standard practice to me and that is not dishonest to the taxpayer so one side is wrong and t’other seems to be doing their job.
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Russell Brown,
Labour’s inability to find any record of this substantial donation seems of greater concern than Cunliffe’s office failing to find the Liu letter.
There are ways that it may be hidden. Elections info