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Post by ComfortZone on Jun 24, 2024 13:58:53 GMT 12
and still more, even 1 news getting into it thebfd.co.nz/2024/06/24/oh-boy-things-are-getting-whiffy/A branded van, used by Te Pati Maori candidate Takutai Kemp last year, has raised fresh questions amid concerns over allegations relating to Manurewa Marae.
The late-model, 12-seater van was used by Kemp in her bid for the Tamaki Makaurau seat last year. The vehicle was wrapped in the candidate’s branding and featured prominently in Kemp’s marketing campaign as a mobile billboard.
The now-MP appeared with the van in a Q+A story just before the election.
Subsequent registration checks of the vehicle show that it is owned by the Manurewa Marae Trust Board. Kemp was the chief executive of the marae before the election.
That may be a problem for the marae as it is a registered charity. Charities are restricted in what political activities they can engage in.
Charities Services, which is part of Internal Affairs, told Q+A “registered charities must not support or oppose particular parties or candidates.”
The department’s general manager Charlotte Stanley said: “This includes making a donation to a political party or candidate’s election campaign, endorsing a party or candidate or allowing a party or candidate to use a charity’s resources.”
This comes under section 13 of the Charities Act which outlines a charity’s requirement to have “charitable purposes”.
Internal Affairs told Q+A that case law is key. |
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Post by ComfortZone on Jun 25, 2024 9:14:45 GMT 12
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Post by El Toro on Jun 25, 2024 12:32:16 GMT 12
Right so, I just checked where I voted last year... it was the Manurewa marae... here's my experience.
I voted early as was away on the Saturday. (I oppose early voting)
I turned about around 1100, the whole marae was covered in maori party flags and banners, all the staff (guessing paid for by electoral commission?) were in maori party jackets and beanies.
First lady called out to me "shit white boy arent you cold" The the brown folk in front and behind me she told them to go get their free kai at the lower part of the marae after making "the correct vote" or words to that effect.
Because I was making a special vote I had to go into the queue. Every person inside the booth was wearing maori party jackets and beanies and flags were hung up INSIDE the polling booth.
All brown folk who were queued to make their vote were questioned by people asking if the wanted to go onto the maori roll. Id go so far as there was intimidation. I kept my head down but from what I saw, everybody whilst I was there who tried to vote on the normal role, was pushed across the the maori roll.
I could also see some of those who had been pushed over to the maori roll who had gone to the lower marae, were walking back to their cars with bags of food.
I got out of there as fast as I could wondering how any of that could be legal.
Because the marae was in Clendon, up till 15 minutes ago I figured it was rife through all the maraes, but google tells me this was the Manuwera marae
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Post by muzled on Jun 25, 2024 13:13:37 GMT 12
Most excellent someone took the time to record that.
So many awesome lines in there from JT.
- They've made it very difficult for our people to vote, there's no post office boxes. (what century do we live in??)
- Tick for our people, don't worry about anyone else. Pick up the phones, tick the boxes for them, that's probably illegal but I'm asking you to do it anyway. The whole system is rorted against us right, so you gotta level it up somehow.
- This is the first time in 180 years we've identified an opportunity to have a say.
- We've been counted out from local govt for ever.
- You've got to go out of your way to not just vote, but get your vote counted.
- That is the rort that goes on, the voting process is weighted towards older non maori white folk, there's now doubt about that.
- The turnout is low, what that tells you is there is a disconnect between the population that can vote and the system they can vote for, and the people that are in power at the moment like that.
- We need to sidestep the white press so we can speak our own truth and rise up as Tarsh has been saying. (I assume Tarsh is an abbreviation for Natasha?)
- And whatever you do, don't vote for them, really, hahahahahha.
- Because it's prejudiced, it's discriminated, it's the whole system
Tarsh Kemp - we gotta round up our whanau and encourage them to rise up. Here was me thinking it was just a vote casting process...
- there's not enough post office boxes, out here they are only outside of countdown, not all our whanau go to countdown. Jeesus, the victim mentality is hard coded.
- our whanau are going to special vote, and there is a half hour wait coz there is only one person manning the special votes.
- there has already been complaints about Manurewa marae soliciting votes, hahahahaha
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Post by ComfortZone on Jun 26, 2024 9:01:43 GMT 12
comment in BFD's General Debate this morning
We watched the video yesterday of JT on his zoom call with the 3 other accomplices as they talked about getting those voting slips and ticking the boxes for their whanau. As they laughed and joked their way through their meeting, hubby said to me did I notice they were all talking in English. Why was that meeting not held in Maori? 4 Maoris talking Marae and election business. No colonisers in the conversation stealing their language and yet they conversed on English. Strange |
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Post by harrytom on Jun 27, 2024 17:22:05 GMT 12
Meanwhile TPA turn up at parliament but sustain from voting?
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Post by muzled on Jul 1, 2024 16:52:49 GMT 12
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Post by GO30 on Jul 3, 2024 14:50:09 GMT 12
She is great. I listened a bit to her last night, she's having a shit fight with Mike King. It's all a bit weird. |
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 5, 2024 10:01:53 GMT 12
We were listening to this guy on Reality Check Radio this morning, talked alot of common sense tenews.substack.com/Lee is absolutely NOT a disciple of Willie Jackson and his radical mates, made the comment that traditional Maori outlook is inherently conservative and hence his "Conservative Maori News". Will be interesting to follow him for an alternative viewpoint Also has this website thepatakainstitute.substack.com/ |
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Post by harrytom on Jul 5, 2024 14:46:19 GMT 12
TPA havent been in the house since their protest/strike thingy.So are they still getting full payment?
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Post by GO30 on Jul 6, 2024 9:34:05 GMT 12
TPA havent been in the house since their protest/strike thingy.So are they still getting full payment? Yes they are some of the many bludgers that are called MP's. |
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Post by ComfortZone on Jul 13, 2024 9:00:41 GMT 12
At long last some moves on the Waipareira trust's funding Tamihere's political ambitions The Herald reports:
"A four-year investigation into the legality of the Waipareira Trust’s provision of hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to political campaigns linked to its chief executive John Tamihere has finally concluded, with the case referred for determination by peak regulator, the Charities Registration Board."
It shouldn’t have taken this long.
"The development marks a key milestone in and signals an imminent conclusion to the long-running case, which began looking at $100,000 provided to Tamihere’s unsuccessful run for Auckland Mayor in 2019 but was later widened to scrutinise finance and in-kind support provided to Te Pāti Māori’s general election campaigns in 2020 and 2023."
" Tamihere was a candidate for Te Pāti Māori in the 2020 election, and has been the party’s president since 2022."
"At issue is long-established case law forbidding charities from supporting or funding political parties or candidates, with regulator Charities Services advising on its website: “Charities may support the policies of a political party where they’re consistent with its charitable purposes; however, they have to ensure that they’re independent and don’t provide support or funding to a political party.”"
They have broken this prohibition many times. They think the law doesn’t apply to them.
"Subsequent annual reports filed by Waipareia for the 2023 financial year record the related-party loan was repaid in May 2023, but also state the trust’s executives – of whom Tamihere is the most senior – that year also received a pay increase of 77% to each earn an average of $510,679."
So it is quite possible the Trust merely increased massively the salaries of key staff, so that the staff could then repay the loan.
"The board, comprised of lawyers Gwendoline Keel and Loretta Lovell, and consultant Dr Bev Gatenby, typically meets monthly.
Keel, the board chair, stood down from her role last year after standing as a candidate for the Labour Party in the Port Waikato electorate. She ultimately lost that race, and Charities Services said following the election that she had since resumed her chairing duties."
Not ideal. A candidate should not be on the board of the regulator who decides if charities are breaching rules on political neutrality.
Whilst the Charities Board is checking this out, they should have a look at the likes of Greenpeace and Oxfam!
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Post by sloopjohnb on Jul 13, 2024 9:47:49 GMT 12
OMG 4 years and still counting!
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Post by fish on Jul 13, 2024 9:50:11 GMT 12
At long last some moves on the Waipareira trust's funding Tamihere's political ambitions The Herald reports:
"A four-year investigation into the legality of the Waipareira Trust’s provision of hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to political campaigns linked to its chief executive John Tamihere has finally concluded, with the case referred for determination by peak regulator, the Charities Registration Board."
It shouldn’t have taken this long.
"The development marks a key milestone in and signals an imminent conclusion to the long-running case, which began looking at $100,000 provided to Tamihere’s unsuccessful run for Auckland Mayor in 2019 but was later widened to scrutinise finance and in-kind support provided to Te Pāti Māori’s general election campaigns in 2020 and 2023."
" Tamihere was a candidate for Te Pāti Māori in the 2020 election, and has been the party’s president since 2022."
"At issue is long-established case law forbidding charities from supporting or funding political parties or candidates, with regulator Charities Services advising on its website: “Charities may support the policies of a political party where they’re consistent with its charitable purposes; however, they have to ensure that they’re independent and don’t provide support or funding to a political party.”"
They have broken this prohibition many times. They think the law doesn’t apply to them.
"Subsequent annual reports filed by Waipareia for the 2023 financial year record the related-party loan was repaid in May 2023, but also state the trust’s executives – of whom Tamihere is the most senior – that year also received a pay increase of 77% to each earn an average of $510,679."
So it is quite possible the Trust merely increased massively the salaries of key staff, so that the staff could then repay the loan.
"The board, comprised of lawyers Gwendoline Keel and Loretta Lovell, and consultant Dr Bev Gatenby, typically meets monthly.
Keel, the board chair, stood down from her role last year after standing as a candidate for the Labour Party in the Port Waikato electorate. She ultimately lost that race, and Charities Services said following the election that she had since resumed her chairing duties."
Not ideal. A candidate should not be on the board of the regulator who decides if charities are breaching rules on political neutrality.
Whilst the Charities Board is checking this out, they should have a look at the likes of Greenpeace and Oxfam!
Don't forget JT's brother is a rapist. And a murderer. A bunch of convictions prior to the Swedish tourists -he was on the run from the Police for rape when the tourists went missing. It puts the dodgyness of JT into a different light, in my view. |
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Post by harrytom on Jul 13, 2024 10:03:31 GMT 12
At long last some moves on the Waipareira trust's funding Tamihere's political ambitions The Herald reports:
"A four-year investigation into the legality of the Waipareira Trust’s provision of hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to political campaigns linked to its chief executive John Tamihere has finally concluded, with the case referred for determination by peak regulator, the Charities Registration Board."
It shouldn’t have taken this long.
"The development marks a key milestone in and signals an imminent conclusion to the long-running case, which began looking at $100,000 provided to Tamihere’s unsuccessful run for Auckland Mayor in 2019 but was later widened to scrutinise finance and in-kind support provided to Te Pāti Māori’s general election campaigns in 2020 and 2023."
" Tamihere was a candidate for Te Pāti Māori in the 2020 election, and has been the party’s president since 2022."
"At issue is long-established case law forbidding charities from supporting or funding political parties or candidates, with regulator Charities Services advising on its website: “Charities may support the policies of a political party where they’re consistent with its charitable purposes; however, they have to ensure that they’re independent and don’t provide support or funding to a political party.”"
They have broken this prohibition many times. They think the law doesn’t apply to them.
"Subsequent annual reports filed by Waipareia for the 2023 financial year record the related-party loan was repaid in May 2023, but also state the trust’s executives – of whom Tamihere is the most senior – that year also received a pay increase of 77% to each earn an average of $510,679."
So it is quite possible the Trust merely increased massively the salaries of key staff, so that the staff could then repay the loan.
"The board, comprised of lawyers Gwendoline Keel and Loretta Lovell, and consultant Dr Bev Gatenby, typically meets monthly.
Keel, the board chair, stood down from her role last year after standing as a candidate for the Labour Party in the Port Waikato electorate. She ultimately lost that race, and Charities Services said following the election that she had since resumed her chairing duties."
Not ideal. A candidate should not be on the board of the regulator who decides if charities are breaching rules on political neutrality.
Whilst the Charities Board is checking this out, they should have a look at the likes of Greenpeace and Oxfam!
Don't forget JT's brother is a rapist. And a murderer. A bunch of convictions prior to the Swedish tourists -he was on the run from the Police for rape when the tourists went missing. It puts the dodgyness of JT into a different light, in my view. Now that raises a strange point on David Tamahere,he is out and hasnt admitted guilt,yet Scott Watson has served more time because he wont admit guilt? |
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