Don’t often link to Whaleoil. He can write some pretty nasty stuff. Doing it two posts in a row certainly won’t be viewed positively by some colleagues.
But this is too good not to be shared with more reasonable readers.
Whale attended the Hide’s Act fundraiser at the Alan Gibbs farm. Two important political features.
The disgraced former MP Garrett who stole the identity of a dead child has been rehabilitated and is involved in the Act Party again. Maybe fair enough from his perspective because Hide and his friends knew about his previous life before he was selected. And certified him as an appropriate candidate for Act. But they ran away from their mate when his troubles became public.
I wonder whether this will just count as one strike and he will be back on the list again. I suppose it depends on the size of the Sensible Sentencing Trust donation.
But even more interesting is the involvement of Michelle Boag in Act. She has been involved in the National Party since the late 1960s or early 1970s. Involved, generally on the losing side in just about every plot going. McCully and her were (are?) a team straight from Machiavelli. Obviously debate about her role. Maybe they have taken her on to run their campaign in the hope she can do as well for Hide as she did when she ran English’s campaign in 2002 – 22% ?
Possibly she was laundering some of the money from the Waitemata Trust – donated to National but being used to prop up Epsom these days.
Or maybe she is recruiting talent for National and was just there as a spy.
But whatever the reason she was there she certainly demanded and got 5 star treatment.
Update – very reliable source tells me that Boag stayed on for private dinner with the Act inner circle after the fundraiser. Very curious.
