10 Good Reasons Why Trevor Mallard Should Step Down Now
- The court case which he lost, costing taxpayers more than $333,000.
- He told the media not to talk to the protesters.
- He sprayed water on the protesters.
- He damaged the lawn.
- 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
6. He wants to build a wall around parliament 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
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
Mallard sells festival tickets online at profit
Mr Mallard sold four tickets to the sold-out Homegrown festival 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
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
10. He wears lycra ( LOL)
