TOP says do what I say, not what I do
The Opportunistic Party has said their policy is to restrict donations to a political party over an electoral cycle to $30,000.
So far this years they have banked the following donations:
- $180k
- $100k
- $100k
- $50k
- $41k
So big donations are bad – unless it is to them.
Incidentally I am amused that so many NZ politicians want to turn our healthy political funding system into a US style system. The US has caps across the board on how much you can donate to parties and candidates.
What this leads to is a huge influx of donations to lobby groups. As someone who set up a lobby group, I should welcome this policy. It would probably triple our income.