Wednesday, 1 September 1999, 10:22 am Press Release: ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader Hon Ken Shirley said from East Timor
today that the ACT team in Tauranga was considering whether
he should withdraw as a constituency MP for Tauranga and
just go for the list vote .
"ACT's polling confirms a
recent public poll that Winston Peters is on less than 30%,
and more importantly, 70% of the people of Tauranga do not
want him as their MP.
"The anti NZ First vote is split
and it appears that Katherine O'Regan has the best prospect
of preventing Mr Peters stealing the seat," said Mr
Shirley.
"Mr Peters has been a disastrous representative
for Tauranga. Under his period as Treasurer, Tauranga
went into its first recession with rising unemployment in
the last decade. In Parliament he and his populist rabble
have been erratic and are one of the principle causes for
the present low esteem of Parliament. Ken Shirley emphasised
that he and his wife Jenny now live in Tauranga and that he
had no intention of altering his commitment to the Bay of
Plenty
region.
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