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# Face of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1961/
- Published: 2019-05-25T18:30:12.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-07T22:02:29.000Z
- Author: Juana Atkins
- Tags: Blog, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

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Mayoral candidate Tania Tapsell

> ACT leader David Seymour has called accusations of hate speech from a Rotorua councillor to a mayoral candidate “absurd”.  
> Stuff reported on the row between councillor [Tania Tapsell and mayoral hopeful Reynold Macpherson](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/112993613/hate-speech-politics-row-in-rotorua-referred-to-police?ref=goodoil.news), which centres on an online post made by Macpherson on the Facebook page of the Rotorua District Residents & Ratepayers’ lobby group on May 14.  
> The post, a response to a video in which Tapsell encourages more young people to stand for council, is entitled **“Beware the charismatic pitch of the Pied Piper”.**   
> “He has referenced me as a pied piper who lures away vermin and children and this level of hate speech is totally unacceptable,” Tapsell said.  
>  
> [Stuff](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/113001668/hate-speech-claim-by-rotorua-councillor-absurd-says-act-leader?ref=goodoil.news)

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