Winston Peters Saga

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

I'm getting sick of the Winston Peters Saga on the news.
Dosen't the media realize we are sick and tired of it
Who cares anyway?

JohnGaul
NZTS

[Manukau heads obs]

its all about accountability
which is needed for people in power

[Razor]

From Stuff.co.nz

Ex Weatherman, now NZ First candidate. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire

Former TV weatherman walks into a storm
NZPA | Thursday, 11 September 2008

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Opotiki College has reacted angrily to a statement by New Zealand First candidate Brendan Horan that 60 per cent of its Maori students leave school with no qualifications.


Mr Horan made the claim in Opotiki yesterday at an East Coast candidates meeting for this year's election, for which a date has still not been set.

"Sixty per cent of Maori students at Opotiki College come out with no qualifications," Mr Horan, former TV One weather man, told told 40 members of Opotiki Grey Power.

He used the figure to demonstrate how important it was to address inequality in society.

But acting Opotiki College principal Robyn Abraham-Harris said she would like to know where Mr Horan got his information and whether he checked it first.

"It is very unfair to make us a political football," she said.

Of 108 Maori students who left Opotiki College in 2007, 34 per cent (37 students) "had little or no formal education". Of the remainder, 19 students had NCEA level 1, 42 students had NCEA level 2, and 10 students obtained NCEA level 3.

"The staff and students at Opotiki College pride themselves on our academic achievement and to have a potential politician use us to score points is unacceptable," Mrs Abraham-Harris said.

"At the very least I would expect a public apology. I am certainly going to challenge him personally to back up his statement."

[gllitz]

Ouch (for Brendan)....
(rant)
We need to do away with the politicians...we need parliamentarians who can REPRESENT AND SERVE the people who have voted them into office...lest they forget that's how they got there in the first place .....I, for one, am SICK and TIRED (like John) of hearing all this crap...they are PAID BY US to go to Wellington and make laws and policies...NOT BICKER ABOUT WHO-GIVES-A-....
(/rant)

...whew...glad I got THAT off my chest....

[tgsnoopy]

I see the current Labour Government is still dragging it's heals on the election. I'll bet it will be the latest date possible.

I look forward to watching the people of NZ executing their democratic right to kick certain MP's/Parties out of office.

As for a certain local gentleman who's daughter went to school with my partners daughter, why can't you just admit it, at least then maybe we could give you some respect for doing so. Personally I think it was pretty obvious you were full of.... (you know what goes next).

We need a new political party in this country, one that actually has decent values!

[Inny Binny]

Our politicians are better than some of those over in America. That much can be said, for sure.

[NZstorm]

I see the current Labour Government is still dragging it's heals on the election. I'll bet it will be the latest date possible.

They are self serving. At least USA has an election date.

[Michael]

Its just a ploy to get bring the Tories back into power.

[tgsnoopy]

At least we finally have a date.

I wonder if that date is the latest it could be?

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Dosen't matter, I won't be voting anyway. Nothing to vote for??

JohnGaul
NZTS

[tgsnoopy]

That's remarkably undemocratic of you.

That said, I actually agree with you in a way. I don't like any of the parties much, but I do dislike one more than the others which will decide my voting.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

I don't like any of the parties much, but I do dislike one more than the others which will decide my voting.

If I do vote, it would probably be for Labour, as there has been no government in for 4 terms, so it would be a historical vote rather a vote for a party's policies or

JohnGaul
NZTS

[sthguy]

I'd like to think that the voting public would look past all the rhetoric and sideshows, and considered the value of each parties policies to the country at large. But I'm not holding my breath.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Interesting to see in the USA also whether history will be created with Barak getting the job over the McCain fellow.
Good on yer McCain, youve done it again

JohnGaul
NZTS

[jrj]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf1y9s73Nos

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf1y9s73Nos

Very good James, thanks for this
I wonder if they are related?

JohnGaul
NZTS