Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka has asked his officials for urgent advice around “electioneering” concerns related to a Whānau Ora advertisement encouraging Māori to sign up for the Māori roll was released this week.
The half-hour ad was rolled out by the Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency this week, featuring artist and activist Tame Iti (Ngāi Tūhoe).
The agency’s chair Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, a former Te Pāti Māori candidate, has defended the ad as being part of her mission to advance Māori wellbeing, but senior ministers on Wednesday raised alarm.
Speaking to reporters at Parliament, Potaka said he had written to Te Puni Kōkiri (TPK) – which administers funding for Whānau Ora – for an assurance that public funding had not been used for “electioneering”.
This is almost certainly a case of taxpayer funded lobbying for partisan self-interest.
WOCA is part of the Tamihere Empire, all funded by taxpayers. Tamihere is the TPM President. WOCA is spending money to try and persuade people to swap to the Maori roll, which means more Maori seats that TPM can try and win. It is naked self interest.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
5 comments:
As the proponents well know! But if those at the top don’t have the courage to stamp out such blatant misuse of taxpayer monies- nothing will change.
This sounds like a belated attempt by Tama Potaka to save face. While the latest advertisement may have been rolled out in the last week, they have been advocating for people to go onto the Maori seats since the time of Seymour's Treaty bill, with Potaka's tacit approval.
Rather than concerning themselves about whether the ad is taxpayer funded or not, the coalition should be concerned about the implications of the success of the advertising. The "left -wing parties" and voters(as we saw in France and Canada) have developed much better strategies to win elections. The "right-wing parties" have their heads buried in the sand like ostriches. This is to the detriment of conservative voters. Our present coalition is absolutely failing to uphold our democracy by allowing our country to be hijacked by radicals.
It is absolutely illogical to say we have colonial racism in New Zealand when the two parties opposed to separatism have part-Maori leaders whilst the largest parties in favour have "white leaders". ie: Labour and National.
As we know, the woke do not acknowledge logic..... only their own weird and unsubstantiated views are accepted.
Tamahere as with other leading activists clearly realises that amongst both the un or little educated and the supremely artful shrewder followers, when it comes to sticking it to the colonists there is no such thing as bad publicity, just more publicity and enhanced mana.
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