Written By:
Eddie - Date published:
11:30 am, July 20th, 2011 - 12 comments
Categories: corruption, Gerry Brownlee -
Tags: CERA, gerry brownlee enabling act, jenny shipley
I/S has revealed how Gerry Brownlee handpicked the “independent” body that is meant to monitor the use of his CERA powers. He appointed Jenny Shipley to the panel and got her $1000 a day, three times the usual pay. Brownlee said the extra was needed to get the people he wanted. But the chair says money didn’t enter into it for him.
Here’s what I/S investigation turned up:
The last point is an out and out lie. The chair, Sir John Hansen, told TVNZ that he has never inquired about the remuneration and pay wasn’t an issue to him. He wanted the job because he considers it an “important public service”. He hasn’t even billed the government for the work he has done.
I wonder if the same is true of Shipley.
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Time to read Naomi Klein’s ‘The Shock Doctrine” if you haven’t already.
Shipley should not be allowed anywhere near public entities such as CERA or the Genesis Board of directors or any that have the betterment of people’s lives at stake. We all know what a nasty cow she is when it comes to the betterment of all.
Will we ever be told how Shipley and Pansy Wong were involved with one another? Investigative journalists where are you???
Investigative journalists? In the press gallery? Haven’t you been following the Murdoch meltdown? Big Gerry knows damn well that no matter how lazy or stupid or venal he and his mates are, their bought and paid for mates in the gallery will spike it, or at the least, balance it up with something Labour did 25 years ago.
Next it will be a dame hood
It would be nice, if Labour wins the election, for them to go back and look at these appointments. If they find due process was not followed, they should cancel the contracts and force everyone to re-apply.
Tag the bloated cost onto the deficit is the mantra of the government when it comes to being careful fiscally.
Who in their right mind would pay tax?
I wonder how the thousands of volunteers who gave freely of their time helping with the cleanup in the earthquake aftermath feel about this! Just another example of jobs for the boys and girls. The greedy right strike again – where is their sense of community service. Oh I forgot, the right don’t do anything unless they get handsomely paid for it. Anyway, why is it necessary to have this elite little group overseeing another group, which in turn oversees another group etc etc etc.
What skills does Shipley have to do this job?
A. Helping one SOE borrow 300 million so another SOE can sell it stuff we already own
2. Helping jobs building trains go from NZ to China
3. Recruiting people with fake qualifications for top jobs in the military
What more do you need
This is old news for us Cantabrians who have witnessed the jack ups within the rotten pocket borough that Environment Canterbury has become since the National led government removed our council and our rights. In fact the present debarcle in our Gerry Built Christchurch has sparked speculation by us that we may also be paying way over the odds for this governments ECan commissioners fees. See our News page for the full article: http://ecaninexile.wordpress.com/petition-protest-rates-revolt/ecan-in-exile-news/
You know, it really is pretty hypocritical when the likes of Key and MacCully label Fiji about their old boys club and they exhibit even more shonky behaviour when it comes to democracy.