More donations
August 19th, 2010 at 6:27 pm by David FarrarTwo more large donations to National have been disclosed to the Electoral Commission.
Suzhen Zhou has donated $150,000. This is on top of an earlier $50,000 donation, so Ms Zhou is now National’s largest donor. Her combined $200,000 matches the $200,000 she gave to aid relief after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
Team McMillan in Newmarket have also donated $50,000.
Related posts:
- Thank you very much for your kind donations
- Union donations
- Donations over $20,000
- Big donations in 2008
August 19th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
could be worse, could be a sickness beneficiary now troughing off legal aid, and still asking for more $$$$$$$$$
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Chris Carter is getting legal aid?
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
only the fat version
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
Shit. That’d clear my mortgage.
All donations please, to the “Don the Kiwi Rescue Fund”.
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
From memory Susan Chou has donated $200,000 as well. I have no problem with any of this other than to say it might be a good idea to seperate personal donations from corporate donations. I totally agreed with your blog on No Right Turn’s mean spirited attack on John Boscawen who I suspect politically I would not get along with but I doubt I would have any time for No Right Turn either. Did he not notice a lot of MP’s across the spectrum had made donations ? Incidently there is a bloke who could use a donation and as a ” left winger ” he has my support, I will support an honest blogger before a political party any day.
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Seems the right sort of (new) New Zealander we need.
An Auckland couple have donated $200,000 to aid relief efforts in China and are encouraging others to offer support through a charitable trust being set up to help earthquake victims.
Zhaowu Shen and Suzhen Zhou of Remuera, who own a company involved in real estate and other business, gave the money to authorities yesterday morning.
Speaking on behalf of the couple, who speak little English, lawyer and broadcaster Raymond Huo told the Herald they were among many from Auckland’s Chinese community who contacted him yesterday, wanting to help earthquake victims.
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
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Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
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Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
With these big Chinese donors, with Jenny Shipley and and Pansy Wong’s husband’s business links with China, National looks to be in bed with Beijing. Is National in a position to turn down the shonky-looking bid from China for the Crafar farms?
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Jack5… Some Chinese people donate to National. Other completely different Chinese people want to buy farms. Do you lump both groups of Chinese people together because they all look the same to you?
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Davidp…
Don’t pull the racist card from the bottom of the deck! Nor any need to be racist about how Chinese people look to some people. They look fine to me and just as unique as European-descent whites.
We’re talking about National. We’re talking about links through an Auckland Chinese business group with Jack Chen by National MP Pansy Wong’s husband and former National PM Jenny Shipley. To be fair, Labour MP Raymond Huo and even Phil Goff have links with the group. (See the link below).
John Kee has recently being trumpeting the worth of ties with Beijing, and the Government seems happy with projections that the Chinese proportion of NZ’s population will rise to about a quarter. I’ve no problem with that. What I do have a problem with is that there has been no debate about this, and no mandate for NZ voters and citizens.
National started the ethnic re-engineering of NZ in the last decade or two. Its roots steam from when a former National Minister, Ozzie Malcolm, established the immigration industry. That, for good or bad, started the ethnic re-engineering of NZ.
Does anyone remember any political debate about this? Nope. No talks, no negotiations. Nothing like the Treaty of Waitangi.
It’s against this background and the big donations to National from Auckland Chinese that I question National’s ability to be impartial on the flaky Chinese mob’s bid for the Crafar farms.
The link to the Jack Chen story:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10665100
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
If Zhou gives donations after disasters why didn’t she give this one to Act?
[DPF: Heh now that is funny]
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Rat, fuck off…Summary offenses aren’t eligible for Legal Aid.
So fact free comment again
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Good posts Jack5.
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
temper temper fatboy
Fact Free Comments run deep here, a bit like your blog
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
This sort of thing will have the left seething. And demanding a law change.
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
“Some Chinese people donate to National. Other completely different Chinese people want to buy farms.”
Oh here we go, can’t afford property rights to another human being because he happens to be “Chinese”. Guess who grows the carrots and potatoes you eat each night … some slitty-eyed 4th generation New Zealand Chinese bloke in the Manawatu.
And, just to really annoy your prejudices, Asians are bloody good farmers who annoy the Greens becuase they tend to do it better than the Greens would otherwise mandate, if they had the chance. The Greens hate it when they are out-Greened
Vote:August 19th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
davidp, that comment was not aimed at you, rather that fool jack5 you were responding to.
Vote:August 20th, 2010 at 8:29 am
So the Chinese are well on the way to colonising New Zealand. Good. I have no problem with this. They are generally hard working and their history with ethnic minorities would indicate that once they take over they won’t tolerate all this Treaty and separatist bullshit. Likewise their rather efficient methods of dealing with criminals. My only concern is that they aren’t very good at rugby… But thats maybe why they are colonising us, to gain control of the ABs… Yes… I understand it now. Fiendish little devils.
Vote:August 20th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Roy has to go.
Vote:August 20th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Where did these people really get their money? What were they involved in back in China? It is standard fare all over the world for Chinese to ”grease up” politicans with oodles of dosh. It may be relatively new here but it is older than the hills world wide. Everyone should be concerned. It reeks of corruption and bribery, again standard Chinese fare.
Vote:I know the culture more than most NZers because I have been married into a large Chinese clan for more than twenty years. I have also lived in an overseas Chinese community which is where I saw this style of politics at close quarters. It is not pretty..far from it. In this country , the Chinese business people give huge donations to politicians..the Chinese gangsters meet the politicians at the airport openly. Chinese business that is, ”successful” business and Chinese gangsters are inextricably linked. Where Chinese business goes , Chinese organized crime goes. To my knowledge , Chinese organized crime has been in NZ since the 1970s.
Lets face it..what does this woman want? A thank you card?
August 20th, 2010 at 10:41 am
Is it compulsory to be a Labour Party voter to be a member of a union?
The NZ Meatworkers and Related Trades Union and the NZ Amalgamated Engineering, Printing & Manufacturing Union have donated member union fees to the Labour Party. What if a union member happened to be a Green’s supporter and would prefer a donation to them? What if a union member wanted the Union to actually directly support members?
Vote:August 20th, 2010 at 10:45 am
joana, I agree. I personally like the asian culture because their work ethics are good. Even in Los Angeles, they took over and the average asian income was more than the locals. I respect that and I hope it happens here because work ethics are sorely needed. My major concern, though, is the corruption by way of donations to political parties. The United States is a shadow of a democracy because big business is paying off the politicians. Lobbying should be illegal and I know would upset a lot of people, but come on, if you are a politican and a group came to you and said we would like this to happen and oh by the way, here’s a few hundred thousand to your reelection campaign. Judging the integrity of politicans, which way would their vote be casted?? I am concerned not only with the donations of chinese but with all small groups that have money and power. I don’t buy John Key’s concern about foreign buyers of kiwi farms. Personally I think he is for it but he is only giving lip service to gain more votes. “smile and wave”.
Vote:August 20th, 2010 at 11:47 am
Rich Prick posted at 11.17 last night:
What a nasty racist you are, Rich Prick. “Slitty eyed”. This while claiming to stand up for Chinese. The nasty racial remarks about Chinese in these threads usually come from those who purport to defend them. Or perhaps like Dave Mann at 8.29 they support a strong Chinese presence in NZ for other racial motives:
Rich Prick rabbited on:
Rich Prick seems to suggest that because an investor is foreign he/she should be exempt from the controls and mores that NZ investors meet.
IMHO, the point remains about the Crafar farms that National is compromised by links of some prominent National folk with Jack Chen. This is also the case with Labour. I repeat the link below.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10665100
Vote:August 20th, 2010 at 12:19 pm
rouppe: “What if a union member happened to be a Green’s supporter and would prefer a donation to them?”
Well they could make a case to their union that a donation is made to the Green’s party — and it would go through the union’s relevant processes and ultimately if there was some support for the idea there would probably be a vote on the idea amongst union members. If you want your union to make a donation to, say, the National party then basically the same process would be followed.
A union does what the majority of its members want. If a member wants the union to do something, then they have to engage with the union processes.
Of course, if you don’t like what your union does then you don’t have to be a member.
rouppe: “What if a union member wanted the Union to actually directly support members?”
I’ll think that you’ll find that unions do.
Vote:August 20th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
RJL
Bullshit. I seriously doubt they asked their members for authorisation to make those payments
And they could do it a lot better with the extra $85,000. That would help, I don’t know, 10-20 members through financial difficulty while fighting an employer, or pay a years full-time pay to a couple of members who were getting really shafted.
Vote:August 20th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
rouppe: Bullshit. I seriously doubt they asked their members for authorisation to make those payments
Who is this “they” you are talking about — I’ll assume that you mean the union executive.
Of course they did. Or at least they did once upon a time. You are perhaps right that the union executive might not ask for each individual payment, although it will be part of the annual budget that is approved by the union members at the AGM. In any case, at some point in the union’s history the idea of making these payments would have been approved. If the majority of the current members disapprove they can prevent it happening.
rouppe: And they could do it a lot better with the extra $85,000…
Maybe, maybe not. I’m sure that the decision makers in the union are trying to make the best use possible of their funds. So, if you’re a member of a union and you think that its money could be better spent in other ways, then let your union representatives know.
Vote:August 20th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
The NZ Herald catches up – but with the Jack Chen and Pansy Wong husband link
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10667439
Vote:August 21st, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Also in today’s Herald an article on NZ’s underbelly..Asian crime gangs for anyone still naive about them. I note that there is no mention of the gangs and nationality which has the city I live in sewn up. These people started buying up property here about 35 years ago. My husband and I do not mix in the local Asian community AT ALL for reasons which should be obvious. This is rather sad.
Vote:August 21st, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Jack5…. a history of generous philanthropy..yeah right.
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