If you're a townie, fomer high flying corporate lawyer and member of parliament.... the last thing you want to do after buying a 2027 hectare 'pig hunting' block is to infer that your neighbours are a pack of 'theiving dope smokers'...Law and Order spokesperson or otherwise, it's just not the done thing.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2939790a10,00.html
Also.... this sort of stuff just screams of desperation...
If you did not get ballot papers, or receive this message after its too late to vote I would like to hear from you. Let me know at doreen.leacock@parliament.govt.nz. I will get an idea of the numbers from your responses. It would not be consistent with a secret ballot but if you joined on 3 or 4 June, and you did not get ballot papers back in time, and have not voted by fax, and wish to indicate how you would have voted I will report those numbers to the caucus during its deliberations over the weekend. ... Stephen Franks
If you did not get ballot papers, or receive this message after its too late to vote I would like to hear from you. Let me know at doreen.leacock@parliament.govt.nz. I will get an idea of the numbers from your responses. It would not be consistent with a secret ballot but if you joined on 3 or 4 June, and you did not get ballot papers back in time, and have not voted by fax, and wish to indicate how you would have voted I will report those numbers to the caucus during its deliberations over the weekend.
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Stephen Franks
