where is the dosh coming from?
The Progs have a big billboard at the top of Sandringham Rd, advertising their student loans policy. They have also recently had some big ads in newspapers. None of these have had parliamentary crests on them. Where is the moolah coming from??
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Well, I can only speculate that the Ministry of Economic Development has been doling out taxpayer money to various businesses. I wonder if some lucky business owner has reciprocated the generosity back to the Progressives?
i think you mean giving money to that nice printing company back in October OW ;-)
(that's a joke btw)
Hah! Wrong Indian I am afraid, but it's a nice story - the things I could be capable of!
damn, there goes Conspiracy Theory #405
And for the record - perish the thought that a Bhatnagar would fund an Anderton - or vice versa for that matter.
In the early 1990s, when Jim Anderton and the Alliance was polling well, my Dad was in a Koru Club lounge at Auckland Airport when Jim walked up to him and said hello. (Back then, Dad was the CEO of Noel Leeming Ltd, and the company was in a period of expansion and getting a bit of news).
Apparently Anderton said "We should talk sometime more properly." My father, ever the diplomat, said in his baritone Indian accent "Ah yih crazy?"
End of conversation.
Yes JPA did have that odd assumption that everyone liked him and thought he was powerful and would want to "talk" with him. No doubt he holds it still.
Ironically the only time I ever exchanged any words with him were well before I was actually a member of the party, back in 1996 when I was invited along to what I thought was a public meeting by a boy I had a crush on. Turned out it was a meeting of the faithful and donations were expected. On the way in we all got to shake The Great One's hand and he said hello to me and I said hello to him. I think he may have even said "thank you for coming." My father warned me before I went to the meeting to count my fingers afterwards and in hindsight he was so right.
Spied the first billboard in chch yesterday. Its on Main South Road in Hornby, and to make matters worse its only around the block from Liz Gordon's house.
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