Murray McCully MP - National Party State Services
Spokesman
16 December 2004
TVNZ resignations all show
"The resignations offered by three Television New Zealand
board directors and their rejection by the Government is a
predictable sham aimed at protecting Labour's political
mates," says National Party State Services spokesman Murray
McCully.
"The Prime Minister and the Minister of
Broadcasting are playing New Zealanders for suckers.
"New
Zealanders can now draw their own conclusions about the
sincerity and seriousness of the Prime Minister when she
attacked the Paul Holmes salary disclosures, and more
recently the Judy Bailey revelations.
"Her public comments
in relation to both are now shown for the hollow political
rhetoric they were.
"The fact that two of the three
directors who tendered resignations are political mates of
this administration - one a former Labour cabinet minister -
has obviously played a major part in this
decision.
"Today's charade, after all of the earlier
huffing and puffing, is a calculated insult to the
intelligence of every New Zealander," says Mr
McCully.
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