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Posted August 19, 2014 23:00 · last edited August 19, 2014 23:37

No - most people don't say things like that, at least I don't. There might be things in my email to make me look bad but nothing remotely like those direct quotes. 

They have been leaking the actual emails on Twitter so more politically motivated people than myself can read them and find context. 

As I said I vote green, that hasn't always been the case but it was in the last election and will be in this one, I only started to look at them after the more extreme members were replaced - as far as I can tell they aren't implicated so I haven't been paying it close attention.

I used to vote centre right but after working in Christchurch during the earthquake I heard some nasty stories from people who dealt directly with John Key and his office, I won't repeat them in a public forum because I don't want to implicate the people or companies involved (in the unlikely event that someone sees them) but it was enough for me to change who I vote for.

Another indicator is the fact that Wellington has quite a high labour voting percentage, certainly the local mp's are mostly red. The fact that a high percentage of Wellingtonians work for the government and choose to vote Labour is quite telling. I can see two arguments, one is that they all want to keep their jobs and that is more likely under Labour than National, the other side is they work directly with the MP's and see how they operate.

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Ryan edited August 19, 2014 23:37

No - most people don't say things like that, at least I don't. There might be things in my email to make me look bad but nothing remotely like those direct quotes. 

They have been leaking the actual emails on Twitter so more politically motivated people than myself can read them and find context. 

As I said I vote green, that hasn't always been the case but it was in the last election and will be in this one, I only started to look at them after the more extreme members were replaced - as far as I can tell they aren't implicated so I haven't been paying it close attention.

I used to vote centre right but after working in Christchurch during the earthquake I heard some nasty stories from people who dealt directly with John Key and his office, I won't repeat them in a public forum because I don't want to implicate the people or companies involved (in the unlikely event that someone sees them) but it was enough for me to change who I vote for.

Another indicator is the fact that Wellington has quite a high labour voting percentage, certainly the local mp's are mostly red. The fact that a high percentage of Wellingtonians work for the government and chose to vote Labour is quite telling. I can see two arguments, one is that they all want to keep their jobs and that is more likely under Labour than National, the other side is they work directly with the MP's and see how they operate.

Ryan edited August 19, 2014 23:26

No - most people don't say things like that, at least I don't. There might be things in my email to make me look bad but nothing remotely like those direct quotes.