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Jul 31Liked by Bryce Edwards

Now for the likes of Stephen Joyce and Simon Bridges, and all the other hangers on and selected "expert advisors".

It's not corruption when it's done in NZ, is it....

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Jul 31Liked by Bryce Edwards

Thanks Bryce.

Great to get the details laid out clearly, for the record.

Must take a while to compile, like many if your articles.

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Jul 31Liked by Bryce Edwards

Wonderful article Bryce. A pox on all their houses.

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Thanks once again for your elegant elucidations. Kris Faafoi is another once who walked out one door on a Friday and in the other on Monday. It looks an awful,lot like corruption to many of us ordinary Aotearoans.

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When fraud becomes the prevalent behaviour it soon drives out good behaviour as those who are good soon get sick of swimming against the tide and leave.

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Senate Comms was also hired to promote John Key's part privatisation of power companies:

https://stoppress.co.nz/news/million-dollar-ad-campaign-mighty-river-power-wheres-website/

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Consider the MP who funds his own campaign by selling one of his homes at an inflated price to a backer with deep pockets.

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No need to include this unseasonable windfall in election donations when the buyer sells it on a year or so after the election at a loss

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Great, thanks Bryce. So satisfying to see even a tiny fragment of Corporate - Government shenanigans lose its footing.

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Another great piece thanks Bryce.

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Thanks for the deep dive confirming my instinctive revulsion at this "lobbying" culture for $$. Don't mind interest groups like cancer groups etc. "lobbying" for good causes, but this "every way the wind blows" cynical parasitic culture is abhorrent. I can't see the coalition doing anything meaningful - perhaps some group needs to "lobby" to get grunty regulations enacted?

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