Owen Glenn Archive

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  Helen Clark on Checkpoint - by frog

  
  
  
  I’ve just been listening to the Prime Minister’s interview with Mary Wilson this evening and have got three comments I’d like to make.  First she said in relation to her not disclosing her knowledge about the conflicting evidence in relation to Mr Peters’ story relating to Mr Glenn’s $100,000 donation: It wasn’t my job to [...] read more
  September 12, 2008 7:47 pm - 38 Comments
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  Doing deals - by frog

  
  
  
  To me the most interesting bit of Owen Glenn’s testimony yesterday was the involvement of Mike Williams in signing off the $100,000 donation to Winston Peters.  The obvious question is why would a Labour Party president direct $100,000 towards another a politician in another party that competes for the same share of votes? And the [...] read more
  September 10, 2008 8:30 am - 2 Comments
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  Transparency should be king - by frog

  
  
  
  Once again, our papers are filled with speculations and allegations about who gave money to whom and when, as well as to what end. The self-declared King of Transparency has lost his crown. This is precisely the reason that the EFA was needed. We can debate all day about the efficacy (or not) of that [...] read more
  July 27, 2008 2:05 pm - 30 Comments
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  Parliamentary questions about Peters - by frog

  
  
  
  I thought it was funny, after all the outrage that circulated around the various Winston Peters donation scandals over the weekend, that in the end it was the Greens asking the toughest questions in Parliament today. Tim Selwyn at Tumeke! Described the half hour of questions this afternoon thus: Winston’s crew were up and down [...] read more
  July 23, 2008 8:16 pm - 11 Comments
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  Honour - by frog

  
  
  
  Here’s the Prime Minister discussing Winston Peters’ donation from Owen Glenn on Morning Report this morning. “If we take Mr Peters at his word, and I must as an honourable member, and I take his lawyer at his word, then Mr Peters would not have been in the loop on the source of the funding.” [...] read more
  July 22, 2008 9:11 am - 4 Comments
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  Funding democracy - by frog

  
  
  
  I like Matt McCarten’s suggestion this morning that businesses and wealthy donors that want to make political donations to ‘support democracy’ put that money towards encouraging people to enrol rather than making donations to political parties: Three months from election day, 300,000 New Zealanders who are mainly young and poor haven’t bothered to enrol. If [...] read more
  July 20, 2008 8:26 am - 11 Comments
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  I would’ve chosen the Cook Islands rather than Monaco - by frog

  
  
  
  I swallowed some pond water over the weekend and have been a bit off colour since then (which is tricky for a frog that is already green).  Meanwhile, the news has also been ugly.  Tony Veitch (I’d like to think this was as story about domestic abuse rather than celebrity, but I’m not sure it’s [...] read more
  July 15, 2008 11:35 am - 7 Comments
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  The Owen Glenn affair - by frog

  
  
  
  The Greens have not commented on the Owen Glenn saga, but contrary to allegations from Kiwiblog not because we are covering for Labour or scared of offending the Prime Minister. As we’ve often said, when it comes to policy and philosophy National has far more in common with Labour than the Greens do. And that’s [...] read more
  February 26, 2008 3:59 pm - 27 Comments