Winston Peters threatens David Farrar with legal
action
From the final episode of The Slightly Correct
Political Show, Winston Peters hinted today at legal action
against blogger David Farrar.
Speaking about articles
written by Farrar in the final 48 hours of the campaign, Mr.
Peters said "you cannot get away with what he tried...and
he's [going to] find out".
The ever combative Mr. Peters
also referred to Mr. Farrar as a 'Rumplestiltskin' and a
'fool' during the 5 minute chat and pondered "why people
bother with him?"
Winston Peters claims there is a law
against misleading people in the final two days of an
election campaign and asked if he was considering taking it
further Peters replied emphatically "no doubt about
it!"
To finish off Mr. Peters offered one more nugget
towards his intentions of Kiwiblog's Farrar by saying, "what
he did under the law was prohibited and he's not going to
get away with it."
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