Dodgy!
OPINION: If you believe Maori Party president John Tamihere’s claim that “nothing dodgy” occurred at Manurewa Marae during the last election, the Hound has a bridge to sell you.
OPINION: The Hound always considered the Government's $3 million propaganda - sorry, advertising - campaign, last year, to promote its takeover of local councils' Three Waters assets a huge waste of taxpayer money.
However, it appears the big spending campaign actually turned more people against the Government's proposals that in favour of them.
Remember the TV ads - those inane cartoons showing green slime coming out of the taps and how all this would be miraculously cured if Nanaia Mahuta got her way.
Well, according to an OIA by news outfit BusinessDesk, the more the Government promoted its reforms with nationwide advertising, the more public opinion turned against it.
So, by the time four months of television advertising was finished, opinion moved against the reforms.
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OPINION: If you believe Maori Party president John Tamihere’s claim that “nothing dodgy” occurred at Manurewa Marae during the last…