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Mana's Peter Cleave Takes Exception To Banks' Comments
Mana's Peter Cleave Takes Exception To Banks' Comments
Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei today took exception to the comments made by John Banks, Act candidate for Epsom currently circulating on the internet. Banks talks about Maori and Polynesian people on the dole at home watching pornography and planning burglaries.
‘Why do we have to put up with this sort of nonsense?’ asked Dr Cleave in an internet posting today. ’This is outrageous behaviour. Not only is the New Zealand public having to watch an abuse of MMP as they are seeing with
Act and National in Epsom with the patently false standing of a National candidate there, we have a former Mayor of Auckland making an awful spectacle of himself.’
Dr Cleave wondered why this kind of comment was not being censured by the Race Relations Office.
‘Banks would not get away with this in some other countries,’ he said.
‘Why are we putting up with this kind of silliness here? New Zealand used to be known as a place of fair play and balance. Here we have an established politician making a prat of himself in a gerrymandered electorate and being endorsed by the Prime Minister over a cup of tea!
How could our image possibly be further tarnished?’
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