Helen should do the honourable thing
Friday, 5 November 1999, 12:23 am
Press Release: New Zealand Government
Labour should do the right thing and admit the rest of the
errors in their campaign ad, said Roger Sowry.
"Helen had
two choices with the mother of seven – to help her or to use
her. She chose to use her."
"Pete Hodgson has already
admitted Labour used phoney figures to misrepresent this
case. It's about time Labour came clean on the
rest.
"Refusing to disclose all the facts is not doing the
Labour Party's credibility any good.
"They've already
used public money to broadcast this ad – should they have to
be dragged to the Broadcasting Standards Authority to force
Helen to do the honourable thing?"
."Helen presented the
ad. Helen should front up with the truth."
"Anyway, if
Labour knew anything about welfare they'd have known that
the facts didn't stack up, right from the
start."
ENDS
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