Posts by Grant McDougall
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I'm sorry, we have an adultery test for our politicians now? I seem to remember it wasn't quite that simple.
It was that simple. Worth didn't commit adultery. As I said, it was to do with sexually inappropriate comments , he obfuscated over it, was found out and Key obliged him to resign.
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I still don't know why Worth resigned earlier this year.
Worth resigned last year for making very inappropriate sexual comments and texts to a woman that is not his wife.
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Garrett's just resigned from ACT.
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My most prized possessions clothing-wise are my three Rotorua marathon finishers' t-shirts for they are the running equivalent of the All Black jersey.
You cannot simply buy the t-shirt as part of your race entry fee, as you can with most other commerative race t-shirts. You have to earn it.
And to do so, you have to run 42.2km, clock-wise around Lake Rotorua, starting and finishing at the Gov't gardens in downtown Rotorua. It is only when you cross the finish line in a mentally euphoric but physically shattered state and then walk, with aching, screaming leg muscles, into the finishers' tent and show your race number that you are given a t-shirt.
If you don't finish the race, you don't get a t-shirt, even though you paid the entry fee. Too bad, otherwise.
They're not particularly flash t-shirts: just a graphic (different each year) of Rotorua, or runners, or the lake or some such on the front and the main sponsors' logos on the back.
But among runners they carry immense stature, for you've truly earnt it. -
Strike 3, perjury with intent
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/4133210/Crucial-information-omitted-in-Garrett-case
He could be sent to jail for that, should be if there is any justice.
Is there any chance of Garrett and / or Hide being done for misleading Parliament ? I suspect Labour will at least try to give it a go, even just to put more pressure on ACT, even if they know they won't succeed.
Re: Hilary Calvert, even as an ACToid surely she can't be that stupid to want to chuck in a solid, stable job as a lawyer just to be a nobody in Parliament for the next 12 months or so ?
Surely that's the political equivalent of a death wish ?Still, she'd probably be able to become eligible for assorted perks (heavily discounted travel, etc) as a former MP, so who knows ?
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I suspect there are considerable quantities of both roflnui and schadenfraude in Heather Roy's office right now.
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I agree, Ben. Slater's being a raging hypocrite about it all. He'd be the first to whine to the cops if a supression order about him was breached.
Plus he'd probably launch a feral fatwa on his blog against whoever may've breached it. -
Speaking of bloggers, Cameron Slater aka Whale Oil has been found guilty of breaching a supression order. Oh dear, how sad.
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Everyone I know who has studied New Zealand literature at university has come away a little ambivalent about the experience. They feel, it seems, that they not so much absorbed the canon of important New Zealand writers as they were bashed over the head with it.
A friend of mine did English honours at Otago in the early '90s and he said doing so "destroyed my love of reading for about a year afterwards".
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...right after he compared Parker to Churchill...
I presume Smith also conveniently 'forgot" to tell listeners that Churchill was dumped as PM by the British electorate in the first post WWII election ?