Progressive Staffing

June 29th, 2006 at 10:23 am by David Farrar

A posting by Lindsay Mitchell about how Matt Robson has predicted both the date and result of the next election reminded me of a most curious entry in the NZ Government Directory published after the last election.

They list key staff in Minister’s offices, and Jim Anderton had a staffer whose job was listed as Caucus Secretary.

This is remarkable for a party of one. Does he just sit in a room and take notes of Jim speaking to himself?

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6 Responses to “Progressive Staffing”

manolo Says:
June 29th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
Who cares about Robson? Someone who praises the virtues of Fidel Castro’s regime ought to be a fool/moron/fellow traveller.

I’d gladly give him in a few dollars towards a one-way ticket to his mate’s island.
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Bob Howard Says:
June 29th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Amazing! We are better off keeping tax rates as they are. Lowering them would wreck the economy. Then why not make big increases to tax rates? Surely we would then the economy would be booming.
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Cadmus Says:
June 29th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
DPF, I take it is part of JAP’s package?
I was told ACT used to pool their staffers and use the extra slippage $$$$ to run propaganda campaigns. At the end of the day is Jim Anderton entitiled to such a Staffer?
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Graham Miller Says:
June 29th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
Another interesting revelation: I noted a report in last Friday’s National Business (“People in Business” section) that Jim Anderton has appointed Matt Robson to the Public Trust – a board appointment, I seem to recall. Isn’t it wonderful how one mate can help another out? Mind you, I would have thought that Matt Robson would have very much preoccupied with human rights cases in his thus-far distinguished post-parliamentary career.
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TheProphet Says:
June 29th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
Jeff/Cadmus – You aren’t thinking of being the last rat to jump off the Rt Hons ship are you?

Your comment above sounds suspiciously like the beginning of a new infactuation.

Allah protect us.
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Rex Widerstrom Says:
June 29th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
Assuming there’s someone in the party other than Jim, it may be a loose use of the word “caucus”. NZ1 pre-1996 had 2 MPs (Winston & Tau) but a number of spokespeople outside Parliament. We’d teleconference regularly and meet face-to-face occasionally, and this was generally called “the caucus”. There wasn’t any staffer taking notes though – everyone kept their own. Made the s**tfights later about who said what to whom much more exciting
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