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Letter to the Editor, Tuesday August 12, 2014

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11 Aug, 2014 09:35 PM2 mins to read

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Great values

Hone Harawira's outrage and demand for an apology from Kelvin Davis must be one of the biggest if not sickest jokes of all time. Hone maintains that he wants these elections be "a campaign of values and ideas". What values, Hone? You who are happy to denigrate the word 'mana' by relegating it to second place for money.

He who is happy to take the money from 'sugar daddy' Kim Dotcom, who is described in Wikipedia as an "alleged hacker convicted of several crimes for computer fraud, espionage insider trading and embezzlement." What wonderful values, Hone, that you seek for the Maori of Tai Tokerau and the people of New Zealand.

So, Hone, do you who extol the virtues of Kim Dotcom, who provides free grog at his campaign parties and then incites frenzied drunken supporters to hatred cries of "Are you ready for a revolution?", "Are you ready to take down the government?", "Are you ready to extradite John Key?" and "F- John Key," chants that remind me of one Adolf Hitler. Great values Hone ... Yeah right.

Kelvin does not owe you an apology. You, Hone, are the one that should be making an apology for selling out Maori and New Zealand values to someone whose sole purpose, I believe, for getting into politics is to try and stop his extradition to face criminal charges in the US.

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Kelvin Davis has stayed true to his values by passing donations he has considered questionable to Rape Crisis. How much have you donated to charity from what I consider to be questionable funding?

Go Kelvin. The people of Tai Tokerau deserve genuine true and respectful values. I wish you every success in the September elections.

J DAVIS

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