Want some cheese with that whine?
The arrogance of new Backbench Labour MP Chris Carter funnily enough does not surprise me at all. He had two of the best to learn from in Helen Clark and Michael Cullen but in this latest saga I am even more surprised that he decided to play the dumbest card of them all...the Gay Card.
In trying to deflect attention from his own misdemeanors with his ministerial credit card he feels that he is being singled out because he is gay. Oh for heavens sake man...grow a spine. 90% of people out there, including myself could care less you are gay, but care more you used your ministerial credit card for personal things and aren't owning up to it.
Shane Jones was an idiot. Using his card to pay for mini-bar drinks at horrendous prices in the first place, $4.00 for a $1 can of coke is just stupid any way you slice it, but using it for adult movies? Are you just nuts or did we mistake that thing on your shoulders for a head containing a brain. Now...he could have said 'I'm being picked on because I'm a Maori' just as easily. He didn't. He got caught and he faced the music.
Carter was big in a statement on Monday saying he 'accepted' the leaders decision to demote. I really don't think he had much of a choice but to accept the decision. John Armstrong for the Herald said "When your leader sends you home from parliament and tells you to consider your political future, you should assume you probably haven't got one". How true that is.
The thing is Carter unlike Jones is an electorate MP. Should he resign completely it forces a byelection in Te Atatu. It may be a strong Labour seat but does Labour want to take the risk? If Jones went then they know it brings Kath Tizard to the house again and shes hardly a clean one too as the former Minister of Auckland...and from all the commentary I am hearing no one wants that, including Labour members.
Thing is though...his rat race around parliament yesterday made him look guilty as sin and his less than willingness to provide an apology. In his mind he doesn't need to give one...only when Goff showed some spine and said do it or else did one come. My mind...not good enough.
This is stress he has brought on himself. He fouled up, denies it, now he's copping it. If he leaves, honestly as Phil Goff I'd say...good riddance. Apart from racking up thousands of frequent flyer miles and massive credit card bills on the dumbest things I don't know what he's done for the country.
There are wider questions of course like why do ministers have credit cards anyways. But I see the logic in it. However with the advent of debit cards with visa capabilities why not pre-load cards that ministers use for trips with expenses money and remote pay by a central card for hotels and things. You load onto the card the necessary expenses they would encounter or their allowances money, but essentially if they want to spend their own money on buying flowers for their partners, they pay for it.
It's got nothing to do with how gay you are. The public could in general care less. Stop whining.
In trying to deflect attention from his own misdemeanors with his ministerial credit card he feels that he is being singled out because he is gay. Oh for heavens sake man...grow a spine. 90% of people out there, including myself could care less you are gay, but care more you used your ministerial credit card for personal things and aren't owning up to it.
Shane Jones was an idiot. Using his card to pay for mini-bar drinks at horrendous prices in the first place, $4.00 for a $1 can of coke is just stupid any way you slice it, but using it for adult movies? Are you just nuts or did we mistake that thing on your shoulders for a head containing a brain. Now...he could have said 'I'm being picked on because I'm a Maori' just as easily. He didn't. He got caught and he faced the music.
Carter was big in a statement on Monday saying he 'accepted' the leaders decision to demote. I really don't think he had much of a choice but to accept the decision. John Armstrong for the Herald said "When your leader sends you home from parliament and tells you to consider your political future, you should assume you probably haven't got one". How true that is.
The thing is Carter unlike Jones is an electorate MP. Should he resign completely it forces a byelection in Te Atatu. It may be a strong Labour seat but does Labour want to take the risk? If Jones went then they know it brings Kath Tizard to the house again and shes hardly a clean one too as the former Minister of Auckland...and from all the commentary I am hearing no one wants that, including Labour members.
Thing is though...his rat race around parliament yesterday made him look guilty as sin and his less than willingness to provide an apology. In his mind he doesn't need to give one...only when Goff showed some spine and said do it or else did one come. My mind...not good enough.
This is stress he has brought on himself. He fouled up, denies it, now he's copping it. If he leaves, honestly as Phil Goff I'd say...good riddance. Apart from racking up thousands of frequent flyer miles and massive credit card bills on the dumbest things I don't know what he's done for the country.
There are wider questions of course like why do ministers have credit cards anyways. But I see the logic in it. However with the advent of debit cards with visa capabilities why not pre-load cards that ministers use for trips with expenses money and remote pay by a central card for hotels and things. You load onto the card the necessary expenses they would encounter or their allowances money, but essentially if they want to spend their own money on buying flowers for their partners, they pay for it.
It's got nothing to do with how gay you are. The public could in general care less. Stop whining.
Labels: Chris Carter, Credit Cards, Labour Party, MP Perks
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