DID THE GREENS SET US UP?
Grant Robertson --- Labour's Wellington Central candidate --- has emailed us to say that he does not think James Barber who sent us the Campaign Cam clip showing Grant and his National opponent, Stephen Franks, was a Labour activist. Instead he believes the person is a Green. I guess we leave ourselves open to the honesty of our contributors when we invite videos from our viewers. But we will be checking a lot more vigorously in future to ensure that we aren't being set up by party activists. That doesn't mean we won't accept videos from party activists --- they just need to tell us they are.
The other question arrising from yesterday's show is what happened to BNZ CEO Cameron Clyne?
He was summonsed to an urgent meeting of the NAB group (which owns the BNZ) in Sydney on Sunday morning. Cameron is the CEO designate for the whole group and there would be no prizes for guessing what the meting was about. It is another measure of just how serious this Wall Street financial crisis is.
Still it was good to have Don Brash and Gareth Morgan on the show in Mr Clyne's place. And as luck would have it we caught Don on his way last night to Woodstock (of all places) for a conference on Central Banking where he was to present a paper.
It was interesting to have Don and Hone Harwira in the Green Room toegther before the show. Don was saying that he had been backing John McCain for President till McCain selected Palin. How could you vote for anybody who supported the teaching of creationism in schools, he asked. But an interesting insight into a liberal mind. I wonder how many American liberals feel the same way?
And Hone also referred to America saying he keeps a video of Martin Luther King's "Mountain" speech on his laptop and looks at it before he has to give any big speeches.
They are two of the more fascinating people to tread our political stage and it was great to have them both on the show.
