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ACT Tauranga Team Considering Tactics
ACT Deputy Leader Hon Ken Shirley said from East Timor today that the ACT team in Tauranga was considering whether he should withdraw as a constituency MP for Tauranga and just go for the list vote .
"ACT's polling confirms a recent public poll that Winston Peters is on less than 30%, and more importantly, 70% of the people of Tauranga do not want him as their MP.
"The anti NZ First vote is split and it appears that Katherine O'Regan has the best prospect of preventing Mr Peters stealing the seat," said Mr Shirley.
"Mr Peters has been a disastrous representative
for Tauranga. Under his period as Treasurer, Tauranga
went into its first recession with rising unemployment in
the last decade. In Parliament he and his populist rabble
have been erratic and are one of the principle causes for
the present low esteem of Parliament. Ken Shirley emphasised
that he and his wife Jenny now live in Tauranga and that he
had no intention of altering his commitment to the Bay of
Plenty
region.
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