In general, I advise against counting your chickens before they hatch, but it appears some may have come home to roost for Te Pāti Māori. So to speak.
Not only has the head of Statistics NZ fallen on his sword (or he will in the not too distant future) due to the fallout of investigations into data breaches and misbehaviour at Manurewa Marae, but yesterday we learned that Te Pāti Māori haven't even filed their annual finances for the election year properly.
The whole sorry saga is symbolic of the rot that has accumulated in New Zealand as a result of race-based politics trumping democratic process.
We have had two damning reports so far from Stats NZ and the Public Service Commission. The Police are investigating the matter also. As the saying goes: "where there is smoke there is fire".
Stats NZ says it is highly probable that Manurewa Marae copied census form data and used it for its own political purposes. Given a Te Pāti Māori candidate was heading up the marae, those political purposes are quite clear. Takutai Tarsh Kemp is, of course, now a Te Pāti Māori MP after winning the Tāmaki Makaurau seat by just 42 votes.
Even worse, the Public Services Commission said there were few, if any, privacy safeguards in place from government agencies when dealing with the marae and there were no conflict of interest checks despite the marae being effectively run by Te Pāti Māori.
It’s all very dodgy and has John Tamihere’s fingerprints all over it. He is the President of Te Pāti Māori, the CEO of Waipareira Trust, and the CEO of Whānau Ora. Through these connections, Manurewa Marae was funded by the Government to collect data for the census and, promote and administer vaccinations during Covid.
Check out this data from The Facts NZ. It shows that at Manurewa Marae, the TPM candidate got nearly three times the number of votes as she achieved in any other polling booth. We have no doubt that Peeni Henare and Labour were robbed.
Questions have to be asked as to whether assigning Manurewa Marae as a polling booth was simply gross incompetence or a deliberate decision to preference Te Pāti Māori.
Six government departments have been found incompetent in relation to this matter - Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Health, Te Whatu Ora/Health New Zealand, Statistics New Zealand, Oranga Tamariki and the Ministry of Social Development. They all owe New Zealanders a thorough explanation.
And there is now further evidence that Te Pāti Māori think the rules are for everyone except them. Yesterday, Business Desk reported that the party has filed its annual accounts for the election year (2023) six months late. What's worse, they were incomplete, not signed by the executive team, and the numbers did not match other filings.
Can you imagine if any other political party operated like this? There would be a media circus! They would be calling for heads to roll!
Indeed, if this kind of stink was surrounding any other party we would be predicting their imminent downfall. The protection racket unfortunately has Te Pāti Māori well insulated.
Before I sign off, I just want to draw your attention to a particularly good piece published in Bassett, Brash, and Hide recently. Rodney Hide describes the alarming rubbish being taught to Kiwi kids in our education system.
Things like that colonists were all genocidal and wanted to exterminate Māori. This is not only a perversion of history; it’s designed to create guilt and fuel racial division.
Ironically, this particular example was from an English course; just another example of our children’s education being hijacked by radical Marxists determined to indoctrinate them and teach them to discriminate and hate based on race.
I encourage you to check with your own children about what they are being taught in school.