Tau Henare

As is usual these days the only commentators that Red Radio run to are Pinko scum. They clearly don’t like MPs saying what the rest of us where thinking:

Commentators say two National Party MPs showed a lack of judgement in posting tweets implying the guilt of a teenager charged with an attack on a child in Turangi.

Louise Upston and Tau Henare both tweeted their thoughts after an arrest was made on Wednesday.

Both condemned the accused in separate tweets before he stands trial.

Mr Henare would not comment on tape, but said he stood by what he had written.

However, he says on his twitter account that he may have got carried away with the initial tweet.

Ms Upston says she was only trying to show her support for the police who worked on the case.

She does not believe her comments have jeopardised the accused’s chance of a fair trial.

Media law lawyer Steven Price says it’s always inadvisable to make public statements about the guilt or innocence of a person before a trial.

However, he says that the twitter comments are likely to have been forgotten by the time the trial comes.

Media commentator Russell Brown says neither Ms Upston nor Mr Henare have demonstrated respect for the law and its processes.

He says legislators have a responsibility to uphold the law.

Looks like Russell Brown is halting his constant self promoting blog posts about Media 7 and his mum’s lamb chop recipes to get back into politics. He may find that times have moved on and one post a week regurgitating your radio slot really doesn’t cut it anymore.

Steven Price is of course the flea lawyer who tried unsuccessfully to sue me on behalf of Pearl Going.

Thanks to seriously and serially inept planning and non existent leadership by National Party President Peter Goodfellow there are now only five members of caucus who are Maori.

Paula Bennett
Hekia Parata
Simon Bridges
Tau Henare
Jami-Lee Ross

Left caucus:

Georgina Te Heu Heu
Aaron Gilmore
Paul Quinn

Thanks to the hopeless candidate college National has become whiter, blokier and less representative of New Zealand. Heads should roll for this, as it is the basic function of the party to bring through good candidates who represent New Zealand.

Mike Williams has written about Labour’s strategy, or rather, the lack of it:

It also points to a very basic strategic error by the Labour Party’s campaign planners.
It seems that Labour’s strategists decided that it was pointless and possibly counter-productive to attack John Key on the grounds of his stratospheric popularity.

This was probably right but the next decision, to leave Leader Phil Goff largely out of campaign publicity, was plainly a serious mistake. The Party Vote is presidential in nature, and no matter how your leader is scoring in the “beauty contest” it is essential that he or she is top-dead-centre in any campaign.

I take the attitude that Phil Goff was much more saleable than Labour’s strategists assumed, and I think that Goff proved this point late in the campaign.

In Te Atatu, the contrast between the two big parties’ approaches was plain.
National’s hoardings featured John Key and Tau Henare’s smiling faces with the slogan “Party Vote National”, whereas Labour heavily promoted its candidate Phil Twyford without any apparent attempt to feature Goff, or promote a party vote for Labour. The result was entirely predictable with Twyford scoring a heavy victory over Henare and National taking the all-important party vote in the electorate by a country mile.

The same happened all over the country. It was not a local phenomenon.

I think Mike Williams is talking about Trevor Mallard and Grant Robertson when he talks about the “campaign planners”.

Probably the most irritating aspect of this approach is that it exactly duplicated National’s 2002 election strategy and produced the same result. If we don’t learn from history we are doomed to repeat it (or something like that).

Yep, Labour nicked Bill English’s playbook and then implemented it flawlessly with almost the same result.

via the tipline

Helen’s Christmas greeting has been leaked.

Two days ago Sue Moroney called Tau Henare a tosser:

@tauhenare you are a Tosser Tau.

December 12, 2011 8:35 pm via Twitter for iPadReplyRetweetFavorite

@suemoroney

Sue Moroney

Yesterday a constituent remonstrated with her over that comment and points out The Moroney Effect:

@suemoroney You think Tau's a looser? Guess you haven't heard of the moroney effect. #unelectable.

December 13, 2011 9:55 am via webReplyRetweetFavorite

@mattyman1010

Matthew

So what does Sue Moroney do? Apologise? No….she continues the nasty:

@mattyman1010 and you have been elected to Parliament how many times. the word was "Tosser."

December 13, 2011 5:43 pm via Twitter for iPadReplyRetweetFavorite

@suemoroney

Sue Moroney

At the same time she misses the point that she is so nasty that she has never been elected in an electorate, instead relying on the patronage of a union to get her a high list ranking. In 5 attempts she is yet to win a seat, sliding in on the list three times.

I wonder what David Shearer is going to do about list MPs with such a poor public demeanour? MPs like Sue Moroney simply reinforce the impression that the Labour party is the nasty party. She is distinctly unlikeable and her election results prove it.

If Shearer is looking for an MP to swing the axe at to teach the other slow learners like Trevor Mallard a lesson.

Tau Henare give some Labour MPs a goodbye head-butt in the last general debate of the parliamentary term.

The more insane members of Labour caucus and the left wing blogsphere are outraged, firstly that John Key even went on Radio Live for an hour and secondly when he was on the show he talked about cats and Coronations Street.

Even journalists who should know better climbed into the debate.

Once again it has been left up to the blogosphere to teach the trained journalists things that they get paid for, that is research. Graeme Edgeler explains the law in terms that even John Hartevelt should be able to undertand.

No broadcaster is allowed to give time to someone to run an election programme. Broadcasters can’t give one party or another a better deal on ad space. And no-one is permitted to broadcast an election programme before “writ day”. Which is pretty much why John Key had to talk about his cat and Coronation Street, when he was given an hour today on Radio Live.

In 2008, Newstalk ZB gave slots to Rodney Hide, Tau Henare, Winston Peters and Shane Jones. Shane Jones went so far his time was an election advertisement (as defined under the Electoral Finance Act). Winston Peters didn’t go as far but his show (along with Shane Jones’) was found by the Electoral Commission to be an election programme. The incidents were referred to police.

So Radio Live, either better advised, or just sensibly cautious, told the Prime Minister today that he had to stay out of politics.

And the last paragraph is a real slap to the journalists.

There’s an exception later in the Broadcasting Act about how the prohibition on broadcasting election programmes doesn’t restrict “in relation to an election, of news or of comments or of current affairs programmes,” but giving over the airwaves for politics is over the line. But if the result is going to be like this, you’ve got to wonder why they bothered. And a note to Stuff: this isn’t prohibited by ”Electoral Commission rules”, they’re a offence created by Parliament.

Much fuss was made of Tau Henare driving an Audi, a poor mand Mercedes if you will.

No such stigma for Charles Chauvel though, he does drive a Mercedes. My tipster tells me the signs are magnetic and they were authorised. Can;t say I’m impressed with the overhung of his allotted space either.

Cicelia Holliday has got herself upset because she may have had the fingers pulled at her by Tau Henare. The tipline has been buzzing about this woman.

It seems she is a serial whinger and one of the mad cyclists rule the road mob.

She also whines to the local community board about traffic issues.

So it looks like CicElia Holliday is a westie whinger.

One thing I have checked is it appears she isn’t a member of the Labour party. I went through my copy of the membership records and donation records and she doesn’t appear.

I’m still going with the roid rage angle. Serial complainer and roid rage.

Road rage from an MP with a heart condition or roid road rage from someone who has is involved in body building and has photos of herself in bodybuilding poses on Facebook.

Yeah, I think I will go with the roid road rage from the body builder.

The real give away of the real motivations behind the complaint is this statement.

“What gives Mr Henare the idea that he is entitled to drive as he pleases? Does being a National MP and driving around in an Audi splashed with National Party colours entitle him to special treatment … be rude to other road users, ignore road rules and endanger others on the road? Is he better and more important than others?”

Plus whenever someone prefaces their comments with a statement professing their undying support for a party I am rightly suspicious.