Cullen ruled election advertisement for National
The Dim-Post reports that the Chief Electoral Office has ruled that Michael Cullen needs to be authorised by the National Party as an election advertisement:
Chief Electoral Officer Robert Peden has warned the National Party that they are in breach of the Electoral Finance Act for failing to register Finance Minister Michael Cullen as an election advertisement.
‘Anything seen to be encouraging voters to support a particular party or individual counts as advertising,’ Peden stated in his ruling. ‘In this regard Dr Cullen is clearly a National Party advertisement.’
National are also in trouble for allowing Cullen to appear in public without prominently displaying the name and address of the party’s financial agent. …
The best satire has that element of truth to it, and this one so hits the mark.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Dim-Post is very good satire indeed.
Given that Hulun and Mikhael are dead ducks politically and the imminent poll massacre, will they rolled prior to the election so as to at least give the other commies a fighting chance at the ballot?
May 16th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Many people have said the biggest issue Labour face is not Dear Leader, but her sidekick. Amazingly, he’s even more arrogant than Her! We can only pray that his next Budget is his last.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:31 am
That is just brilliant. Nicely done Dim-Post.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:33 am
I think ‘that’s gold’ sums it up nicely.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Unfortunately I cannot shake from my mind the image of Cullen as a kind of “financial striptease artist”
What will he reveal to salivating journalists and the NZ public next?
$10, $20 a week or will he go the “full monty” and hand out $1000 to the poor and needy.
Perhaps he could even have his own nightly news bulletin?
He would of course need to attract more than a paltry 36 viewers…
May 16th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Christ here’s $50 keep it on!
May 16th, 2008 at 9:39 am
This guy is great.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I will pay for the Tattoo on Cullens forehead of the authorization details