A Smoking Gun
Remember that Labour’s only possible defence against the claim that they misappropriated the money for the pledge cards is that the cards were parliamentary business and not election advertising.
[T]hose things that are on TV every 10 minutes … are, in fact, 30-second mini-TV programmes altruistically designed to educate you on what it might be like if you coincidentally just happened to buy the things featured on them.
Further down in this post he reveals that he’s made a discovery in the last few days. He has a tape of Helen Clark recorded at a public meeting just before the last election.
She starts:
When I called the election I said that it was going to be about leadership and credibility and values.
Well, it’s kind of turned out that way hasn’t it? 
Last election we issued another pledge card. We ticked those off as well. And this time it’s a third pledge card, and it’s going to take the form you can see there. And over the past two and a half weeks or so I’ve been announcing one-by-one the pledges which are going to go on the card, and I’ll talk about those today, and I have more to announce in the period now, leading up to the launch of the Labour Party election campaign.
Followed by half an hour of explaining how the pledge card is the centrepiece of their election campaign.
Thanks, Helen. If you could just explain that to the judge we should be able to wrap this up pretty quickly.
September 6th, 2006 at 3:34 am
[…] As noted by Bernard Darnton - the Libertarianz leader with a case against Helen Clark in the High Court for illegally using taxpayers money to win the 2005 election - Gman Inc has discovered an audio recording of the Prime Minister at a public meeting last year, in which she explains how the taxpayer-funded pledge card was the centerpiece of Labour’s campaign. I’ve found something even more damning. The pledge card debate has really heated up as Brash accuses Clark of having “stole the election” - just as The Free Radical pointed out in a cover story a month ago. And the Labour Party has finally taken notice - responding by publicly ignoring the pending court case, and trying to distract attention by accusing the National Party of receiving “cash for policies.” Labour Party hack Jordan Carter accuses the media and National Party of conspiring to hide the truth about the pledge cards: “Lies about the pledge card need to stop.” Well, the real lie is that the pledge card for the last three elections has been about promoting policy rather than illegally soliciting votes. As it turns out, the pledge card has been the most important part of Labour’s campaigning since 1999. […]
September 6th, 2006 at 10:23 am
[…] In response to my post about GMan’s audio recording of the Prime Minister contradicting her defence to this case, Phil from Pacific Empire has found similar material in the Prime Minister’s offical hagiography, Portrait of a Prime Minister. The idea was simple - a card, just like a credit card, with a photograph of the Party’s leader, and a series of election promises … […]