Mikey “Avelli” Cullen Gets Nasty
You can always tell when you’re getting to Michael Cullen. He switches from being a smart-arse to making threats.
Last week we saw Cullen the genius unveil the final part of his power-buying trick. It goes like this: You steal public money to buy the election, assuming that you won’t get caught and nobody will have the nerve to say anything. When you do get pulled up for it, you use the position you bought with your stolen money to retrospectively legalise everything you did wrong. Neat.
Not everyone is so impressed though. Yesterday, the NZ Herald published a story comparing “The Spin” with “What Actually Happened”. Cullen has suggested that the paper “consider the consistency of its position” (ie start to toe the party line) and implies that if they don’t they might find themselves “liable to a very large tax bill”.
Read the full story.
August 16th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
A democracy is only as strong as the civil society that it’s based in. Cullen’s behaviour he needs to be highlighted and condemned inas many forum and by as many people as possible as quickly as possible in order to stop the rot and ensure that it does not start us on a slippery slope to becomming a nation where it is considered normal for regulatroy bodies and enforcement agencies to target media organisations and journalists whose reporting isunflattering to the government of the day.
Also, congratulations for taking on Clark, Simpson and Co over their theft of public funds for electoral benefit.
September 10th, 2006 at 11:29 am
[…] Young suggests that the only way to calm the waters will be to get out the chequebook. I, along with others, have said that paying it back isn’t enough. Labour knowingly stole public money to fund their election campaign, breaking the fundamental rules that separate liberal democracy from dictatorship, they refuse to admit fault even with overwhelming evidence against them, they have obfuscated and shamelessly tried to get their arms further into the till, they regard “honesty” as a political slogan with no real meaning, and they have issued threats against media outlets and opposition members who point out their misdeeds. […]