winston peters Archive

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  Greens want Winston on Board

  
  
  
  Green Co-Leader Dr Russel Norman today formally invited Winston Peters to join the Green Party, saying it would help the Greens broaden their voter base. “More  than  four percent of voters at the last election voted for New Zealand First,” Dr Norman said. “I am confident that a large proportion of those voters would give their support [...] read more
  April 1, 2009 11:46 am - 23 Comments
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  Hammed ambush

  
  
  
  Act failed to copy our ads and now Winston failed to copy Jeanette’s shopping mall ambush of John Key. According to Colin Espiner: Mr Key was due in the Tauranga suburb of Greerton for a walkabout at 11.30am but left his supporters standing on the sidewalk after discovering Mr Peters planned an ambush. Key’s minders are obviously more [...] read more
  November 4, 2008 2:35 pm - 34 Comments
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  A ship leaving a sinking rat?

  
  
  
  Russel’s reiteration of the Greens long-standing position on the Winston Peters scandals – that the Greens would probably not be able to sit at a cabinet table with Peters unless everything was cleared up – seems to have got a lot more media coverage this time around than previously. And Helen Clark seems to have [...] read more
  November 4, 2008 10:11 am - 7 Comments
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  Peters donations scandal gets deeper

  
  
  
  The most compelling part of Phil Kitchin’s Dominion Post story about Winston Peters and the Velas is the three paragraphs at the very end: A box of documents sent to the newspaper this week shows that Vela interests made donations to NZ First as early as 1999. Mr Meurant suggested to Mr Vela that this [...] read more
  November 1, 2008 9:57 am - 133 Comments
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  Accountancy and accountability

  
  
  
  Did everyone enjoy the brief interlude in the election campaign where we got to talk about issues other than Winston Peters and his unusual accountancy systems?  (Maybe Jim Bolger was on to something when he made him treasurer, given his ability to run a party on no declared donations.) Interestingly Winston’s $80,000 donation from the Spencer [...] read more
  October 29, 2008 3:49 pm - 7 Comments
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  Clark’s poor advice

  
  
  
  Even if voters’ choice were simply a Labour-led government or a National-led government Helen Clark’s ‘advice‘ yesterday would be patently false given the Greens’ preference announcement last week: When she was asked at a meeting with Foodstuffs workers if they should vote strategically to ensure a Labour coalition, she said the best way was to vote [...] read more
  October 25, 2008 8:17 am - 13 Comments
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  Jeanette is the nation’s most trusted leader.

  
  
  
  Oops. Last night that ‘this election is about trust’ statement from the Prime Minister kind of backfired on her and her Minister without portfolio. The TVNZ poll about which political leader we trust the most shows Jeanette has the trust of 64 percent of New Zealanders, probably due to consistently saying what she means and [...] read more
  October 8, 2008 9:01 am - 7 Comments
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  A choice for the media

  
  
  
  Here’s a challenge for the media this Sunday.  Two parties are officially launching their election campaigns.  One in Wellington and one in Auckland.  The Auckland launch belongs to the party that is only polling about half as much as the other, it’s leader is widely discredited and censured, and its chances of re-election look slim [...] read more
  October 2, 2008 7:32 am - 12 Comments
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  Trustworthiness; it’s like truthiness

  
  
  
  Nice work by McTap, a bunch of Young Greens and some Frogblog readers, has in two days seen Winston Peters go from zero percent in TVNZ’s online poll on the most trustworthy MP in Parliament, to 36 percent, neck and neck for the lead with John Key.  Turia and Sharples have now been belatedly added [...] read more
  September 27, 2008 9:57 am - 11 Comments
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  Who will it be?

  
  
  
  Triennially the question goes on to all the MMP parties: So who’s it going to be, who will you go with? This time, with the exception of the Maori Party, we pretty much know the answer, or will know the answer before the election for all of them.   But what we don’t know is who [...] read more
  September 25, 2008 8:29 am - 53 Comments