Parekura Horomia

This blog has a clear policy on gays, and gay issues. For those that do not remember, during the 2010 local body election it outlined the following position on Gay Marriage.

So before any intolerant fool on the left starts having a go at me for being a redneck or being anti gay please do your research and understand that I am not anti gay. I have made it clear I believe New Zealand could have a gay Prime Minister, and the gayness of someone like Grant Robertson or Charles Chauvel would not stop them from becoming PM, if they are good enough.

Likely they will get bashed for being out of touch, liberal elite wankers who want to waste taxpayers money on stuff like the NZSO, RNZB and Nikki Kaye’s gay mardi gras, but that doesn’t mean their homosexuality will stop them being Prime Minister.

What I do stand against is putting one class of citizen ahead of any other class of citizen because of their race, gender or sexuality.

So Gay New Zealand needs to consider if it would be acceptable to welcome ”white straight males” getting a promotion on the Labour list. It appears they don’t.

“Maryan Street is in seventh position, two higher than her place heading into the 2008 election, in a list that has seen significant changes at the top in the past three years. Phil Goff, Annette King, David Cunliffe, Parekura Horomia and Street are the only two MPs ranked in the top ten who were in the top ten before the last election.

Charles Chauvel has made his way from 27th place to 11th place in a solid three years in Parliament, while Grant Robertson has soared from 46th spot to 14th.

Incredibly gay-friendly Auckland Central candidate Jacinda Ardern is another first term MP who has clearly impressed, moving to 13th place from 20th, while another very gay-friendly colleague Kate Sutton has climbed to 35th from 63rd.

Gay candidate Jordan Carter is in 40th place, a good jump from his ranking of 70th in 2008.”

Labour will continue to struggle in the polls until it realises factional promotions of people based on identity issues pisses off the majority of New Zealanders. Labour should select on merit, not sexuality.

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Kate Sutton isn’t happy

Steve Chadwick is devastated:

Parekura is ecstatic:

The Penguin has mischievously thrown Trevor Mallard’s name into the ring for Labour’s soon to be entirely vacant leadership. We support such a move with a Top 10 reasons Trevor Mallard is the best candidate for the job:

10. Smacked up Tau Henare. Who doesn’t want to do that?
9. Can outrun Parekura Horomia and Shane Jones.
8. Deals with gossip columnists.
7. Dislikes everyone equally.
6. Knows what to do with a bottle of Heineken.
5. Will prove contrast to “smile and wave”.
4. Short press conferences.
3. World’s first blogging potential Prime Minister.
2. Who can say no to a man in a wheelchair?
1. Actually knows the offside rule.

I see Phil Goff appears to be getting his political advice from David Farrar now.

He was expecting a late-November election, after the Rugby World Cup. “If the government goes before November it will be a vote of no confidence in the All Blacks and that would be unwise, or a sign of panic that the economy is failing to deliver.

Hmmm..He should channel Reagan via the Whale instead of the Manatee.

On another note in the same article, it also appears that Shane Jones is tumescent again.

Disgraced Labour MP Shane Jones is set to be returned to glory by party leader Phil Goff in a reshuffle early this year.

He is tipped to be handed the Maori Affairs portfolio and placed on the frontbench as Labour prepares its lineup for the election.

That means that the pie run is over for Parekura Horomia. The front bench seat he is currently wedged into will be breathing a huge sigh of relief. Personally I don’t think Shane Jones warranted a demotion, his troughing was minor, albeit embarrassing, compared with Chris Carter and Clayton “Three Suits” Cosgrove.

It is a good move to promote Shane Jones, though one probably necessary for Phil Goff to survive until the election. I think it is also brilliant, for National, that he is thinking of promoting Jacinda Ardern. We will now be able to see what other have up close, that despite the impressive political CV building there is actually nothing between the ears. I can just imagine her acceptance speech on the promotion now….”I am incredibly privileged….”

Excuse me while I just stop my side splitting at this headline and vow from Labour.

Labour should be mocked mercilessly for such a taudry attempt at politicking. The country wouldn’t be in the position it is in if they hadn’t rammed through the original Foreshore and Seabed law. Now, petulantly they are attempting to re-write history and claim that they care.

Personally I think National have botched the law, they should have just repealed Labour’s theft of property rights and put things back where they were before Labour panicked.

I well remember a debate in Gisborne, that Farrar and I attended on the Blogmobile tour, between Parekura Horomia and Derek Fox. Derek Fox stated that all that Maori wanted was the right to go to court. That was exactly what labour took away from Maori. It should be re-instated and left at that.

Tariana Turia succintly explains that which Labour and Phil Goff fail to understand.

“I would say they’ve (Labour) been watching all the representations that have come to the committee, they think that every Maori in the country is against it, but what they don’t realise is there’s not one Maori in the country that’s forgotten what they did.”

Labour by vowing to repeal the repeal just look stupid. I wonder when Phil Goff will start listening to The Whale and start simply asking voters “Are things are any better under National?”. Until he does he is going to keep looking stupid.

I have reviewed every single one of Parekura Horomia’s prodigious expense claims and have added every single restaurant he ever claimed a meal for to Google Maps.

It is a who’s who of New Zealand’s asian restaurants and one thing is for certain after reviewing every single receipt, that is that Parekura Horomia prefers Thai and Japanese food.

You may have heard of the Michelin Guide, well today I give you the Horomia Guide.

Top Heavy in Thai and Chinese restaurants, nevertheless the list is impressive and encompasses 6 years of troughing by just one minister.

The Horomia Guide to Dining

Tiger Mallard is upset about there being no pies in Taranaki.

Well perhaps he should have got there before Parekura “Big Ben” Horomia.

Parekura at all the pies

He can’t be worse than John Key. Thanks to Red Alert for the Video I’ve uploaded the whole exchange so we can enjoy Gerry take a flick at Shane Jones and Parekura Horomia as well.

Behold – a candidate who went into a marginal seat campaign with a goal of coming second.

Kenneth Wang, you are Campaign Numpty.

1. If you are waging a marginal seat campaign, play to win, not come second with 20% as your minimum goal as your campaign manager suggests above
2. Congratulations on costing ACT the possibility of another list MP. Had Wang waged a party vote campaign, he might have got an extra 2000 votes.
3. Your campaign sucked anyway. Buy one get one free is one of the cheapest and nastiest ways to sell a product. Usually a good salesman identifies people’s concerns and then gives them what they need to solve that concern. You were trying to sell steak knives to people who weren’t actually sure what it was they wanted to eat.
4. Small parties only need one seat as insurance chips. Why would predominately National supportive people back Wang then?

Numpty, numpty, numpty.

Ah well, must be nice to have the money to piss away like that.

I said at the time that this strategy wouldn’t work. Kenneth Wang isn’t Rodney Hide. Botany most definately is not Epsom. That as the critical mistake. Thinking that Asian voters in Botany were as politcally savvy as Epsom voters. In fact if kenneth’s strategy had worked then ACT fifth place candidate would have missed out on his place in the parliament and I would much rather have a Sensible Sentencing bloke in parliament that a former Tianamen Square protestor who now cuddles up to the Chinese.

I missed this yesterday, but the NZ Herald has run a poll in Botany electorate.

Looks like Pansy has got that seat nailed with ACT’s Kenneth Wang coming an extremely poor third. I’m not surprised because I wouldn’t think the Asian voters of Botany would take to kindly to a former protester of Tianamen Square flip flopping over to support of the regime. Perhaps kenneth would like to clarify his position.