Sky City donations

writes in the Herald on Sunday:

As you can appreciate, it's a highly political environment these operators and the casinos live in.

Consequently, political donations to and parties are rife. Both mayoral candidates, Len Brown and John , received generous financial backing from SkyCity and last general election National and Labour picked up $60,000 apiece from them.

This is massively incorrect. The donations of $60,000 to National and Labour (and $12,000 to , ACT and United each) were not at the last election, or even the election before that but three elections ago in 2005.