Labour police spokesperson Ginny Andersen has publicly apologised for comments she made about Police Minister Mark Mitchell‘s private security work in Iraq.
“I apologise to Mark Mitchell. It is unacceptable to personally attack someone,” she told Morning Report on Monday.
“It is not my usual standards … I would like to apologise to any listeners who took offence to those comments I made.”
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This $2.44 billion “donation” isn’t about community infrastructure is it: it’s a desperate, taxpayer-funded undertaking to buy votes. Why aren’t the media asking the Greens if they are serving New Zealanders, or just subsidising and aligning themselves with the Māori Party’s agenda?
Radically reducing immigrant arrivals and visa restrictions is one thing, but rounding up people who may have been in the country for decades because they don’t ‘look like a Kiwi’ is quite another – and a much more horrifying – story.
No matter how often she loses at taxpayer expense, she remains unelected and untouchable.
