John Pagani
This morning the Dominion Post reported a couple of MPs have put up billboards too early.
Here's a worse case.
This photo was taken on SH1 at the intersection of Rosina and Kaimatarau Roads in the Manawatu.
Right about here.
The black line in this shot shows the Manawatu District council boundary.
The rules of this council are perfectly clear:
"Signs shall only be permitted in the two-month period prior to the election."
Which is why my wife doesn't have any signs up in this neighbourhood. Yet.*
Maybe the National candidate does not know the rules.
Perhaps he should ask the mayor.
What implicit pressure is placed on the council when the scofflaw is the mayor, his worship, himself?
If this were a Labour candidate, the squealing from the right wing bloggers would be deafening. What are the odds of their total silence?
See, it's his own council rule that he's breaking. Isn't that an order of magnitude worse than the hysterics we've seen over technical breaches elsewhere?
Isn't it funny?
* She does have them up in neighbouring areas, which are in different council boundaries. The electorate is so big that at a guess there are over seventeen million district councils involved.
