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# 007 Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/007-face-of-the-day/
- Published: 2021-02-26T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-27T08:58:57.000Z
- Author: General
- Tags: Featured, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

**Taxpayers Union**  
[taxpayers.org.nz](https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/?ref=goodoil.news)

This week it was revealed that Green MP **Ricardo Menéndez March** applied for an emergency MIQ slot not once, [but twice:](https://goodoil.news/el-woko-loco-tried-twice-to-jump-the-queue-in-miq/) first as a ‘critical health service’, and again as ‘required [for national security](https://goodoil.news/el-woko-loco-story-gets-worse/)‘.

We were first to break the story of Mr Menéndez March being in isolation on 9 February, meaning the MP has had more than two weeks to front up with the full detail of his queue-jumping attempt. Instead, New Zealanders only found out this week thanks to a Parliamentary question from National’s **Chris Bishop**.

We can only assume Menéndez March chose to be secretive because he knew his grounds for an emergency slot were laughable. He’s a minor party spokesperson for Food Safety – hardly a critical health worker. Even more bizarre was his appeal to ‘national security’. How does jetting in a socialist from Tijuana help to secure New Zealand’s national security?!

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/face-of-the-day.jpg)

Photo credit: Taxpayers Union. 007 Green MP Ricardo Menéndez March

You might enjoy this piece from our very own [Neil Miller](https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/my%5Fheroic%5Fjourney%5Fback%5Fto%5Fnew%5Fzealand?utm%5Fcampaign=210226%5Ftu%5Fnwsltr%5Flouis&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fsource=taxpayers):

> Gracefully returning from Mexico, the third most deadly hotspot for COVID-19, suddenly I am confronted by a border guard demanding all this paperwork about quarantine, isolation, and contact tracing that apparently I, a busy Member of Parliament, should have filled in “months ago”. “Months ago?” – who can understand such bureaucratic jargon?  
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> Responding to the frontline staff, I point out the obvious absurdity in his argument. “Next”, I quip, “you will be saying that Kiwis should not travel to Mexico at all.” He produces a piece of paper from the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade saying exactly that. However, I spot that it is almost a year old. I cannot be expected to keep up with these historical edicts about the country of my birth and long intended travel destination. I am a list MP.

Jokes aside, Menéndez March’s ongoing failure to front-foot this affair stinks of a lack of humility and a disregard for the taxpayers who fund his salary.

![james bond GIF by STARZ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/media/1hCnI6vRRBYPiaosR4/giphy.gif)

The name is Bond, Ricardo Bond.