Tainted money

Granny has done a ring round seeing if any charities would like $158K. Many suggest it would be most welcome, but baulk at the idea of it being Winston First's tainted money, citing it would have to be ratified by their board.

I say to any charity who touches this tainted money, just watch the public pressure that will be applied and watch all your alternative public funding sources dry up. Hope you have a good budget without funding.

Also, now we are in 'election year' under the EFA, does any political statement 'donation' of this magnitude come off Winnie's total? If so, well done Winnie, nice of you to buy a charity while trying to get re-elected. Pay the money back to Parliamentary Services where you stole it from.

Also, has Mr Fence Sitter paid the amount he stole back yet?

TPK wasting money

The TPK funding trough shows no bounds. Seems Maori have a rate of SIDs 6 times higher than other ethnicities, so they want to give all new (Maori only?) mothers in Gisborne a $300 flax basket, paid for by the NZ taxpayer, to put the new rugrat into.

I suspect that a flax basket, as pictured, would be ineffective to resist the crushing force that apparently causes SIDs, ie that of a parent rolling onto the baby whilst asleep themselves. The coroner even thinks so, stating

These babies die because someone sleeps on them, not beside them. It's not cot death - these babies are not in cots.

Also, the coroner states,

If parents have been using alcohol or drugs and they put their arm over their three-month-old baby, they are going to kill the baby, whether it is in flax or not.

So, TPK rightly wants to attempt to correct the issue, by spending heaps from their unlimited racially funded taxpayer trough and no doubt keeping some art-crafty flax weaving member of the whanau in business at $300 a pop. Very expensive way of doing things, a quick Google shows all sorts of cots and beds available from well under that price.

Sturdy looking woven cot with mattress here, $135,
NZ made steel frame portacot here, $199.95,
NZ made portacot here with change table, toys, net and wheels, $229.

So, TPK why are you funding an expensive, ineffective flax basket with my hard earned tax?