Tizard on Tizard

Judith Tizard does another valedictory speech – this time in the Herald on Sunday.

Whale has a summary:

Forty uses of the word “I“
Ten uses of the word “I'd“
Four­teen uses of the word “my”

Two aspects amused me:

While I grew up in a political family, my real apprenticeship was in the hard, cynical school of the Auckland Central Labour Party where Richard Prebble and his mates took no prisoners; where any tactic was fair if you won; where attack (personal or otherwise) was the first line of defence. And you never, never gave up, no matter what.

But I also found people I respected and enjoyed working alongside. , Helen Clark, Cath Tizard and Jim Anderton ran smart, inclusive, positive campaigns which taught me and many others like , Len Brown and Matt McCarten how to make a difference.

Matt McCarten has in fact been one of Tizard's harshest critics.

I saw the on-going attacks on my character and my work, in blogs as well as in the Herald, as a Crosby-Textor/ -style attempt to destroy Labour leaders …

Oh goodness. Not just a Crosby-Textor style attack, but also a Karl Rove style attack. Judith left out Dick Cheney and Richard Nixon.

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