All as bad as each other

The Herald asks the main Ikaroa-Rawhiti candidates for their views on some issues:

: Until we have some sound research that says [mining] doesn't have any environmental impact, can't support that.
Marama Davidson: Ban it! Risky off-shore drilling, mining and fracking are all industries we want to get away from. Today we are releasing a package of green jobs for Ikaroa-Rawhiti that don't ruin our environment.
Na Raihania: I am absolutely opposed to mining and drilling our Mother Earth. And this idea it will provide jobs for everybody is stretching it.
Te Hamua Nikora: As far as mining goes, we say frack off. No thank you.

So all four candidates want the entire mining and oil industry in closed down, putting close to ten thousand people out of work and knocking more than two billion dollars off NZ's GDP.

Biggest issue in the electorate
Meka Whaitiri: Jobs.
Marama Davidson: Jobs and protecting the environment and wanting jobs that don't ruin the environment.
Na Raihania: Mortality are high, education … but employment, I guess, and our status.
Te Hamua Nikora: , stemming from unemployment, and a lot of health issues coming from poverty and poor housing.

So in one sentence they all say they are against all mining, fracking, drilling and in the next they all says jobs and unemployment is the major issue. Idiots, all of them.

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