> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Face of the Day - URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-514/ - Published: 2022-03-04T17:30:00.000Z - Updated: 2022-03-04T08:14:26.000Z - Author: Guest Post - Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:12 #### 10 Good Reasons Why Trevor Mallard Should Step Down Now 1. The court case which he lost, costing taxpayers more than $333,000. 2. He told the media not to talk to the protesters. 3. He sprayed water on the protesters. 4. He damaged the lawn. 5. He acted like a juvenile playing loud music. > A former top police negotiator has pointed blame at Speaker Trevor Mallard for **aggravating** the Parliament protesters in the early days of the demonstration. > > [https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/wellington-parliament-riot-former-top-police-negotiator-points-blame-at-speaker-trevor-mallard-for-aggravating-anti-mandate-protesters.html](https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/wellington-parliament-riot-former-top-police-negotiator-points-blame-at-speaker-trevor-mallard-for-aggravating-anti-mandate-protesters.html?ref=goodoil.news) 6\. He [wants to build a wall around parliament](https://goodoil.news/lets-build-a-big-wall-thatll-teach-them/) to separate the good common people of New Zealand from the ruling elite. 7\. He is not impartial. 8\. He acted like a tyrant. 9\. **He seems to have a long history of bad judgement.** > Yesterday Mr Mallard brushed off a claim that a teacher union’s leader had been offered a parliamentary seat in exchange for settlement of secondary school teachers’ pay claims. > > National’s education spokesman Nick Smith asked in Parliament if it was true that PPTA president Jen McCutcheon “has been promised a future career as a Labour MP should this deal be settled without any further fuss?”. > > [https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mallard-confident-teachers-will-accept-deal-despite-strikes/LHYCAXIEVOGMKBUTYU6QRMFM4U/?c\_id=1&objectid=2042536](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mallard-confident-teachers-will-accept-deal-despite-strikes/LHYCAXIEVOGMKBUTYU6QRMFM4U/?c%5Fid=1&objectid=2042536&ref=goodoil.news) > **Mallard apologises for threats** > > Asked what remedies were open to him, a “gutted” Mallard told Radio Sport they would “involve Heinekens in particularly uncomfortable places”. > > He offered to use the Cup sponsor’s product on Pugh \[…\] , a Welsh lawyer, and Australian Rugby Union boss John O’Neill. > > Prime Minister Helen Clark told NZPA Mallard was ‘a red-blooded passionate rugby supporter’ expressing the disappointment of every rugby fan. Asked if the ‘uncomfortable places’ threat was out of line, she said: “I’m not getting into that.” > > **Leaders of National, ACT, New Zealand First and the Green Party all criticised Mallard.** At a press conference on Friday, Mallard said he would not make the same comment again. > > “Of course I’m sorry I made the comment. It’s not a ministerial thing to do, is it, and sometimes I mix up my passion for rugby with my role as a minister of our Government and that’s not always good. It’s not the first time I’ve done it. > > \[…\] “I think it’s fair to say that my blood pressure at the time was not at the point where my judgment was great.” > > [http://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/story/41357.html](http://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/story/41357.html?ref=goodoil.news) > **Mallard sells festival tickets online at profit** > > Mr Mallard sold four tickets to the [sold-out Homegrown festival](http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/culture/6383093/Want-to-go-to-Homegrown-Too-late?ref=goodoil.news) at a $276 profit. \[…\] > > Mr Mallard told The Dominion Post yesterday that the recent sale was neither scalping nor dodgy. He bought the tickets last year but now had another engagement. > > “I’m slightly surprised if promoters with whom I spend several hundred dollars a year on tickets complain when I sell some I can’t use to someone who wants them using a Kiwi-based online auction.” > > He listed the tickets at face value, but let the auction run above $500 because he “knew that they were worth more”. > > **Mr Mallard initiated anti-scalping legislation in 2006** – now the Major Events Management Act 2007 – to protect event sponsors from people making money out of major events with which they had no formal association. > > “This is not one of those and if they didn’t like it they shouldn’t have bought it….I’m a bit pissed off, it was a private agreement.” > > [http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/6426149/Mallard-sells-festival-tickets-online-at-profit](http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/6426149/Mallard-sells-festival-tickets-online-at-profit?ref=goodoil.news) > **Mallard apologises to parliament for punch-up** > > \[…\] **Mallard punched Henare last month** after the National MP had made a remark in the debating chamber about the minister’s private life. > > Prime Minister Helen Clark punished him by moving him off the front bench and taking away his economic development and sport portfolios. > > [https://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/mallard-apologises-to-parliament-for-punchup-2007110615](https://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/mallard-apologises-to-parliament-for-punchup-2007110615?ref=goodoil.news) 10\. 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