You are fast becoming one of the best writers in NZ. You have deep experience of both the Maori and pakeha worlds and their institutions but have managed to maintain your independence, integrity and sanity.
Most of us at some point struggle with our shadow/darker impulses and most make it out the other side better people. Yet there are those that don't or even those that embrace it. They need to be exposed especially if they are powerful, so thank you.
Your piece might also help to explain why the vibe coming out of te Pati Maori feels increasingly like Malcolm X or post Mandela ANC South Africa, rather than Martin Luther King.
Good on you for shining some light on this festering and corrupt organisation and the charlatan who runs it. Let’s see if the gutless Government drones in Wellington finally develop some spine and deal to/with this vile crook.
when you see the Hollywood "coke mansion" that Tamihere lives in out west AK, the allusions to Pablo Escobar are not too far off the mark...cunning, JT has his home registered as his business office ( tax, baby,tax)..the only puzzle is his brazen-ness which is inviting attention big time now...I saw Jodi Ihaka interview him on Marae last year..she said " aren't you just a successful criminal ?" which blew me away...JT just smiled and carried on with the interview
Met him once back in his “front-bum’s” days, through his other narcissistic Labour Party flatmate, O’Connor, and yes, even then he was a self absorbed individual with a modicum of charm, who, like the picture of Dorian Gray, seemed likely to morph into the character you’ve described.
“We were just a couple of months short of the votes. There was definitely data-collecting and it was information that they shouldn’t have been collecting.” come on guys! That's a beat up by disgruntled employees and even if true ...
"Information Is Power" and no Polical Party apparatchik (Luxon calls them bureaucrats) is unaware of that. The electoral roll of voters and in particular the Habitation Index has Even More of our personal information. I have no brief for JT. When he was Wheelocked and played the "do you know who I am card" in front of a camera he reached rock bottom.
Let me know when the knives come out and you have to set up a Give-a-Little page in order to survive. I'll be first in line to donate.
Arohanui, Aroha.
Thanks for posting this!
Best wishes weathering the shit storm that will inevitably follow.
You are fast becoming one of the best writers in NZ. You have deep experience of both the Maori and pakeha worlds and their institutions but have managed to maintain your independence, integrity and sanity.
Most of us at some point struggle with our shadow/darker impulses and most make it out the other side better people. Yet there are those that don't or even those that embrace it. They need to be exposed especially if they are powerful, so thank you.
Your piece might also help to explain why the vibe coming out of te Pati Maori feels increasingly like Malcolm X or post Mandela ANC South Africa, rather than Martin Luther King.
Tamihere is the engine driver on the Maori Gravy Train..... The stokers are the co-leaders of Te Pati Maori.
willie jackson is never far away !!
Good on you for shining some light on this festering and corrupt organisation and the charlatan who runs it. Let’s see if the gutless Government drones in Wellington finally develop some spine and deal to/with this vile crook.
Thank you Sir. Let this be the start of the end.
I imagine the lawyer’s letter will be in your hands tomorrow.
when you see the Hollywood "coke mansion" that Tamihere lives in out west AK, the allusions to Pablo Escobar are not too far off the mark...cunning, JT has his home registered as his business office ( tax, baby,tax)..the only puzzle is his brazen-ness which is inviting attention big time now...I saw Jodi Ihaka interview him on Marae last year..she said " aren't you just a successful criminal ?" which blew me away...JT just smiled and carried on with the interview
Thank you, a very insightful piece
Tamihere doesn’t strike me as the sort of person who will give up quietly.
Kia Kaha.
Kind of explains his crazy eyed, foul mouthed, waste of space daughter.
Met him once back in his “front-bum’s” days, through his other narcissistic Labour Party flatmate, O’Connor, and yes, even then he was a self absorbed individual with a modicum of charm, who, like the picture of Dorian Gray, seemed likely to morph into the character you’ve described.
well done.
Wow! A great read - thanks for the heads up -
“We were just a couple of months short of the votes. There was definitely data-collecting and it was information that they shouldn’t have been collecting.” come on guys! That's a beat up by disgruntled employees and even if true ...
"Information Is Power" and no Polical Party apparatchik (Luxon calls them bureaucrats) is unaware of that. The electoral roll of voters and in particular the Habitation Index has Even More of our personal information. I have no brief for JT. When he was Wheelocked and played the "do you know who I am card" in front of a camera he reached rock bottom.
Congratulations on this excellent analysis and your insights.