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Inaccurate incorrect quote corrected by Herald
18 April 2010
Inaccurate incorrect quote corrected by Herald on Sunday
North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams
The Herald on Sunday has
corrected on its on-line website an inaccurate incorrect
quote attributed to me which they printed in today's Herald
on Sunday, says Mayor Andrew Williams.
"They have
confirmed that this was paraphrased from an interview with
one of my councillors but the quotation was inaccurate."
says the Mayor.
I did not state "Two people were
crucified at Easter - and one of them is me." My email, in a
string of fairly innocuous lighthearted emails amongst a
few councillors, read "Yes two blokes got crucified this
week…and both will most certainly rise from the dead to
come back to haunt a few people!!"
"This was in
context in a week in early April where certain political
opponents and 'Sunday tabloid media' had launched vicious
attacks on me, and where I was having to defend a number of
sensational accusations which were highly exagerated,
misleading and in some instances plainly
false."
"Radio promotion ads today for the Herald on
Sunday newspaper which stated the same incorrect quotation
have also been withdrawn, and I thank those concerned at the
paper and radio stations concerned who have corrected this
inaccuracy. It is heartening to deal with some very
responsible media people who recognise an error when it
has been made, and they have pulled the
ads."
"This latest attempt to discredit me, as a
result of an unknown person distributing unlawfully accessed
email files from a councillor's workroom computer, is yet
another in the string of politically motivated actions that
have been undertaken against me over the past year during
the volatile Auckland super city debate. It is a sad
reflection on the state on politics in New Zealand that some
political opponents and tabloid media will stoop to such
depths." says Mayor Williams.
"But, as I have said
a number of times in recent months, the insidious actions of
some will not deter me from my work, my questioning aspects
of the restructuring of Auckland, and my focus on what is
best for the democracy of the North Shore, Auckland and New
Zealand".
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