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While the NZ Herald says at least seven have put their hands up for National’s selection in Hamilton West, sources have told The BFD that the actual number is twelve.
At least seven people are understood to be putting their names in the ring for National, while Labour seems to have lower interest to run in the byelection forced by the resignation of Gaurav Sharma after his expulsion from the Labour Party.
Those interested in the selection for National include business director Rachel Afeaki – Taumoepeau, health professional Dr Frances Hughes, former Mayor Andrew King, and the former Hamilton West MP Tim Macindoe, who lost the seat to Gaurav Sharma in 2020.
NZ Herald
Tim Macindoe would be the favourite and is well known in the electorate. Other candidates with reasonably high profiles will make this selection interesting. But never underestimate the National Party’s propensity for woke virtue signalling to ruin the selection:
Some National Party supporters are pushing for a more diverse shortlist than the party delivered for the Tauranga byelection – the party’s board sets the shortlist, but local party members select the candidate.
NZ Herald
People don’t vote based on diversity. You’d have thought National had learned that lesson, but it appears not. Only in the feeble minds of the media has National got a diversity problem.
Hughes has a long career in nursing management and health and in 2020 was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for her Services to Nursing & Mental Health. She returned to New Zealand in 2019 after spending a few years in Queensland as chief nursing and midwifery officer and in Europe as chief executive of the International Council of Nursing. She is now the Group General Manager Clinical and Care services at Oceania Healthcare.
Afeaki-Taumoepeau, a New Zealand-born Tongan raised in South Auckland, is a business director and involved with charitable, church and NGO work. She was chair of the New Zealand Tonga Business Council and is involved in local Waikato business groups.
NZ Herald
Those are a couple of interesting candidates. The Board will now conduct pre-selection and weed out the useless…unless they meet some token virtue signal criteria. Any that haven’t been members for 12 months will also get rinsed. If any with memberships less than 12 months get through then the Board may well have some legal issues, given how they’ve gassed other candidates in other electorates.
There have to be some donkeys in a field of twelve, but it reflects how convinced people are that National will lead the next government.
Meanwhile, the Red Team is signalling that a union hack will be their sacrificial lamb.
Meanwhile Labour sources have pointed to Georgie Dansey as their potential candidate, although a few others are said to be weighing it up before nominations close also on Wednesday.
Dansey is understood to have said she is keen to stand again after contesting the Hamilton West selection in 2020 and losing to Sharma in what one source said was a close vote.
Dansey is currently the electorate chair for Labour’s Hamilton East electorate. She was 84th on the Labour list – the last placed MP – and wrote a good-humoured piece in the Spinoff about it.
NZ Herald
Apparently, diversity isn’t a problem for Labour, only National. Mind you Labour’s last diversity hire in the seat turned out to be problematic. Dansey, however, is a former PPTA and PSA union hack who used to be a teacher, who has a wife and kid. You know what George Bernard Shaw once said: “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” To which I’d add, those who can’t teach, become union busybodies.
The very last thing New Zealand needs is yet another union hack in parliament.
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