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The original of this post is here at Polity. As readers will know, Kim Dotcom has promised to wind up his party if it isn't polling 5% by the time the ballots are printed, and then throw his (considerable) resources behind another party of his…
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I've been looking for feedback on Simon Power's electoral finance reform package. I think I heard Russel Norman this morning on Morning Report but I can't find anything from Labour. After the hell that rained down on them over the EFA (much of it richly…
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Hilarious reading through the Herald's Your Views on election funding. Seems the Herald's meek acceptance of the Government's electoral funding plans has alerted a few of their readers to the fact they were duped by the paper's blatant political advocacy for National last year. Here's…
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From the campaign launch, I got this photo, and decided that I'd put it up for the skulkers complaining about the EFA. For some reason they were conspicuous by their absence (didn't want to tangle with 1600+ activists?). For the EFA fetishists, please note that…
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As the polls start to turn on National - and a new poll out yesterday saying the Left working with the Maori Party would have the numbers why aren't we surprised that Granny Herald's ‘your views' section today asks voters if they think the polls…
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Bob Jones confirmed on Morning Report that he gave $25,000 in 2005 to New Zealand First. The money was to be funnelled to NZF through the Spencer Trust but, according to the party's declaration of donations the money was not passed on (parties' declarations of…
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National has announced that John Key donated $30,000 to the party this month. That's all well and good; Helen Clark donates a similar amount to Labour most years. What's new is that the donations Key and every large donor to National or any other party are…
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It's funny the stories you hear when you're out in the provinces. I was up in Auckland over the long weekend and came across someone who told me the story of how Key became involved in National. See, Key was never political growing up and…
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The Maori Party has asked for an extension on the replies for Tariana Turia and we're happy to oblige. In the meantime, here are the questions to United Future's Peter Dunne that we chose from your suggestions. The general question remains: Of which of your…
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The Electoral Commission has published the parties' donation returns for 2007. It is worth noting from the outset that under the electoral law then in force only donations over $10,000 had to be declared and anonymous donations, including the use of anonymising trusts, were legal.…
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Well it looks like Free Speech Coalition founder Cameron Slater has taken a break from stalking John Minto and photoshopping underage bloggers' faces onto porn and decided to finally publish the Coalition's updated donors list (and only a month after he said he would). Interestingly,…
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Today in the Dom: Tracy Watkins gets National Party blogger David Farrar to coauthor share his views in an article on the Electoral Finance Bill. The Nats are campaigning hard against changes to the Act. You would too if you had as much to lose.…