Winston denies there was any donation at all
Okay the Herald do seem to be trying to get some further info out of Winston before Wednesday – well done. Claire Trevett writes:
Yesterday Mr Peters refused to say where the money was from and appeared to deny its existence.
When asked, Mr Peters said: “There’s no question ever that any such a thing ever did happen.”
Asked if that meant “there was no big anonymous donation”, Mr Peters said “precisely”. When further pressed he said: “I have no idea what is being spoken of because no such thing ever happened.”
So there was no donation at all. Dail Jones was totally mistaken it seems. How could this happen? Here’s the reasons I can think of:
- Dail Jones confused his personal bank account with NZ First’s, when he claimed he had found a close to $100,000 mystery deposit
- It wasn’t a donation, it was an interest free loan!
- The donation was actually the term deposit maturing, and Jones got them confused (but it was maturing in December we were told)
- The money is actually aid money for North Korea from Condi, which Winston is meant to pass on.
Perhaps Dail Jones could release a copy of the bank statement to clear things up.
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Tags: anonymous donations, Dail Jones, Owen Glenn, Winston First
February 25th, 2008 at 10:24 am
What, politcial party bank statements in the public domain? What an interesting idea! Someone should really make a law about that!
February 25th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Now a really good reporter would be back talking to Dail Jones and quoting him what Winston has just said. Wonder how long it will take for someone to come up with that thought??????
February 25th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Well DPF seems to have condemmed the NZH or ’smeared’ them by saying the MSM are soft on Peters, then when shown to be uninformed merely says here is some other questions you SHOULD have asked.
More frenzys to be whipped up and its not even lunchtime
February 25th, 2008 at 11:11 am
This whole murky business gets murkier by the day, and it is richly ironic that Labour and New Zealand First are getting tarred with the very brush they created to nobble National. I’ve expressed my thoughts here
http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2008/02/winston-donation-what-donation.html
and lest dave c think I’m shamelessly link-whoring again, I’ve linked back to DPF’s post to give credit where credit’s due!
February 25th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Yes I agree with David’s option 4 scenario is highly probable as to why Winny would put the shutters up on this one. I mean to say didn’t anybody else find it rather odd the antics of a sly fox, secret deals after the North Korea covert operation he did for the Yanks? He might have been rewarded with green money from the Condi honey? Ouch.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:38 am
This will come down to Winnies favourite definition of “donation”.
As in, it depends what “is” means.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:39 am
I’d go for option 2:
My guess is an unnamed balding shipping magnate with pseudo-diplomatic ambitions kindly advanced an”unconditional interest-free suspensory loan” to NZF after advocacy from a heavily jowled president of a major party in an attempt to save a coalition partner from electoral oblivion. It was probably arranged over a few drinks at the “Green Parrot” which could explain why Winston doesn’t remember it and forgot to tell any one else.
A less likely possibility is that the money came from “Fay Richwrite” in gratitude for the endless free publicity Winston gives them!
February 25th, 2008 at 11:46 am
I have been waiting years to see Winston Bjeikle-Peterson fizzle in a fury like a rapidly deflating balloon, except that instead of the balloon flopping onto the floor all empty and wrinkled it would simply go ‘fst’ and disappear completely in a tiny puff of dust.
Maybe this is the time.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:54 am
I’m sure that someone somewhere has a winebox full of documents to incriminate Winston. It really is pure farce that the very chap who has taunted National repeatedly over funding, big money, dodgy mates etc etc is now actually having to answer some questions about these very things…..talk about stones and glasshouses!
February 25th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
For once I wish a journalist – any journalist – would pin a politician down and ask them questions *until* they get the truth. Grill them! (The politicians, that is)
February 25th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
5. The money was just resting in his account. (c) Father Ted
February 25th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Problem is, Pascal, a show like that would have to build up credibility over the years, until it became such a must watch that the politicians had to come on it, even though they knew they would get roasted. Unfortunately, there are no shows in NZ with that reputation (closest we ever had was Holmes, and you could hardly argue he asked the hard questions). So if you started asking hard questions and giving a grilling, they’d simply stop coming on your show.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
what I would like to see then is a show with the guest appearing in absentia – imagine if the presenter asked all the questions they wanted to ask plus gave all the answers and comments – there would be no chance the guests would not arrive next time!
February 25th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
What is Winston’s bloody problem in paying back $ 158 k – someone else’s donated money or not – when he would have us believe he and his party are qualified for stewardship of millions on our behalf – but they can’t get together less than half the price of an average house in Tauranga, to repay an amount they misappropriated more than two years ago?
But wait . . .
A Radio Live reporter has just asked Winston [in Korea] about Owen Glenn, only to have a lecture delivered to her about journalists reporting facts properly. So she then asked for various facts to be verified and got the usual evasive krap – minutes of it – for her trouble.
But maybe this has answered my question above – pay back the money and an opportunity for continuing bullshiting will disappear – pay it back and journalists will go away and pay you no more attention, which could be DEATH to Winston.
It’s like some of those bloody looneys on AMERICAN IDOL – they aren’t there to sing – they’re doing something else entirely. I only wish Winston would go and flaunt his ego somewhere like that – so I could just turn the bugger off.
February 25th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Actually DPF, there is another reason; I just realised that it is my money, which I accidentally transferred into NZ First’s account. If they’ll give it back everything will be all right.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
GhostWWNZ … glad to see you are defending the indefensible. But keep at it old son. You know people by the ‘friends’ they keep. Just that your friends are rotten to the core. But I guess you feel at home with that sort of company.
My old Dad who trudged the streets for Labour at some personal cost to himself is no doubt turning in his grave at the depths to which the Party he revered has decended.
Sad, sad , sad.