New Zealand First has come up with a new trick to avoid repaying its $158,000 debt to Parliament.
Winston Peters helps to tell the story with his old trick, the 'No' card.
- Did New Zealand First honorably accept the finding of the Auditor General the party had misspent$158,000 of taxpayer money on political advertising three months before the 2005 election?
- Did New Zealand First respond morally like other parties and pledge to repay the money to Parliamentary Service, the body that funded its unlawful ads?
- Has your party given any urgency to the matter since the AG's report in October 2006?
- New Zealand First attempted to score a PR victory by announcing it had given the Starship Foundation instead of back to the taxpayer, but did it work?
- Did the party have any idea before it gave the money away it would be embarrassed by having the cheque returned to sender by the Starship Foundation Board chairman last December?
- Did the party take the chance to finally do the decent thing and repay the money to the taxpayer?
- Was it clear where the party's $158,000 came from?
[ What was on the sign you held up when we asked if it had come from Owen Glenn?]
- Does the party see anything wrong with its latest decision to pay the money to a variety of charities in a bid to avoid attention on just one charity?
- Does the party understand why this might be seen as New Zealand First cynically using charities to launder money that morally belongs to the taxpayer?
