Melissa Lee Archive

  • frog

    Captioning the Rugby World Cup - by frog



    It was pleasing to discover yesterday, via a question from Catherine to Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman, that the seven Rugby World Cup matches screened live on TVNZ next year will include live captioning for the deaf community – after all, we promised the world a ‘stadium of 4 million people’, and this ought to include [...] read more
    September 23, 2010 2:25 pm - 2 Comments
  • frog

    It ended miserabLee….again - by frog



     More self-inflicted wounds for National’s Mt Albert candidate Melissa Lee yesterday when an attempt at humour went wrong.  She had to explain that a suggestion to shoot the media was not hers – it was someone else answering email on her behalf (really, your honour, I wasn’t there). Fortunately, a lamington stole the spotlight, but [...] read more
    May 26, 2009 1:59 pm - 26 Comments
  • frog

    Forget Melissa’s indiscretions, what about National’s? - by frog



    The Melissa Lee sideshow keeps rolling with her bold announcement today of a plan to come second in Mt Albert. The continued foot-in-mouth distractions may be welcomed by the National Party leadership because it keeps attention away from questions about their electoral expense returns. You’ll recall that Lee produced promotional videos for National before the election. [...] read more
    May 23, 2009 6:37 am - 17 Comments
  • frog

    Melissing the point - by frog



    A lot has been said already about Melissa Lee’s comment that the motorway would keep South Auckland criminals out of Mt Albert. While she did eventually apologise, I was surprised to hear her comment when she was pressed on the issue by Auckland University students yesterday. “You guys are students so you obviously don’t watch [...] read more
    May 22, 2009 6:20 am - 45 Comments
  • Sue Bradford

    Bradford’s Truth – Mt Albert, motorways and Melissa - by Sue Bradford



    My regular column in the New Zealand Truth: The Government’s decision to go ahead with the Waterview motorway extension will certainly be doing nothing to help National’s chances in the Mt Albert by-election. If it goes ahead, the Transport Agency’s preferred option will see 365 properties demolished and $1.4 billion squandered on a motorway slashing [...] read more
    May 21, 2009 9:29 am - 22 Comments
  • frog

    Following the Waterview Logic - by frog



    Most media commentary on Melissa Lee’s foot-in-mouth moment last week focused on her perceived racism, but there were, in the blogosphere, various attempts to understand her logic.  These are separate but related issues; an opinion can be offensive, but well-argued or vice versa. What was never clear to me in Melissa’s comments was how she [...] read more
    May 19, 2009 6:48 am - 14 Comments
  • frog

    Freebie Video?? – yeah still not ok - by frog



    A great Campbell live story on Tuesday night revealed that Melissa Lee has made a National Campaign advert using her tax-payer funded Asia Vision equipment and staff. She has argued that this is ok because it was done as a freebie outside of work hours.  Unfortunately for the National Party that’s still not ok, the electoral law [...] read more
    May 14, 2009 11:08 am - 12 Comments