Comments on: Hide’s corrupt abuse of office

By: Armchair Critic

Armchair Critic — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:08:16 +0000

“Thankfully neither he, ACT or myself are trying to impress you”
Good plan, Clint. Why would anyone try to increase their share of the vote when they already have a whole 1.7% firmly within their grasp? Trying to get any more of the remaining 98.3% would just be greedy.
And if I could say one nice thing about ACT, it is that they have done a great job of not impressing me.

By: felix

felix — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:51:06 +0000

Yeah but Clint is a guy who thinks that you can get away with anything as long as you put a smile on it.

Hey Clint, you’re such a knuckle-dragging idiot

By: felix

felix — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:48:37 +0000

Of course you’re right. Pocketing extra money for doing your public sector taxpayer funded job, that’s not corrupt at all.

Signing a painting for a charity auction is REAL corruption.

By: Pascal's bookie

Pascal's bookie — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:41:09 +0000

So if Winston had invited a bunch of ambassadors to an event

to hear the foreign minister discuss “the future of NZ’s foreign policy”

and scored a 1000 bucks a head off them for NZFirst,

y’all would have had no problem?

Right.

By: Clint Heine

Clint Heine — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:29:23 +0000

…or anybody who REALLY thinks this is a real story of corruption, especially after the last 9 years

By: Pascal's bookie

Pascal's bookie — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:06:14 +0000

A word that could have been invented for Roddders.

By: Hide flounders in effort to cover corruption at The Standard

Hide flounders in effort to cover corruption at The Standard — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:21:01 +0000

[...] after The Standard pointed out the problem with a minister speaking as minister then pocketing the money for his party, [...]

By: Clint Heine

Clint Heine — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:44:28 +0000

I think you’ll find BLIP, the word “unwittingly” was used in this article to describe Rodneys involvement.

By: BLiP

BLiP — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:32:34 +0000

Au contraire - Wodney has definitely made an impression on many New Zealanders. Its not like he hasn't been involved in dodgy money making schemes before.

By: Clint Heine

Clint Heine — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:16:21 +0000

So in exchange for immigration help one needs to tile a house – and you’re comfortable with that? But for Rodney to ask ACT members to pay for a standard breakfast meeting is wrong?

All parties incl Labour and ACT run breakfast meetings. There is always a charge for such events. Last time Rodney held a similar event for ACT members he got a lot of flack for not inviting outsiders. So when he does invite them he gets harrassed too.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Rodney will never be good in your eyes. Thankfully neither he, ACT or myself are trying to impress you

By: peteremcc

peteremcc — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:56:19 +0000

Again, the local councilors were invited because last time Rodney spoke to an ACT event in Christchurch, they complained that they weren’t invited!

By: dave

dave — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:35:20 +0000

It may not be 100 % clear either way, Graeme, but, given that local authority representatives were specifically invited to the meeting by the leader of the ACT party after they had complained to the minister about local government concerns, do you really think they would want to hear what the ACT party leader thought if he wasn't the minister investigating them?

By: Pascal's bookie

Pascal's bookie — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:28:33 +0000

These there invites that went to the council critters.
Were they addressed to them in their official capacity?
Would the ChCh ratepayers usually foot the bill for functions they attend?
Was the Minister of LG asking ratepayers to fund his party?

By: Killinginthenameof

Killinginthenameof — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:27:22 +0000

Yes, there hasn’t been a lot of reply from the right, I suspect there will be overtime for the young Nat’s parliamentary research team tonight, hopefully they will have some lines ready for Farrar in the morning, and some “Labour\Greens did it to”‘s ready for the sewer dwellers. We shall see!

By: felix

felix — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:13:44 +0000

Hmm, I seem to remember burt implying that Roger only did that to show us that there are exploitable loopholes in the system. And the only way to explain that to us is to, you know, exploit them. So he was doing us a favour, really.

I wonder if he thinks Rodney’s doing us a favour too.