{"id":3498,"date":"2015-03-02T06:27:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T17:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2015-03-02T17:33:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T04:33:33","slug":"porter-confirmed-as-candidate-for-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=3498","title":{"rendered":"Porter confirmed as candidate for By-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\" alt=\"avatr\" width=\"70\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3516\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3862.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3516 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3862-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3862\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3862-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3862-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3862-495x371.jpg 495w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3862-80x60.jpg 80w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3862-161x120.jpg 161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rueben Taipari Porter Right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rueben Taipari Porter&#8217;s candidacy on behalf of Mana in the up-coming Northland by-election was confirmed yesterday at the Mana Te Tai Tokerau AGM. Mr Porter laid out his strategy and presented some interesting facts.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Porter explained the Norwegian company Statoil offers\u00a0no jobs for Northland. In its home country of Norway 50% of all profits will go back to the Norwegian government. In New Zealand only 6% is awarded to the tax payer and not a cent of that money reaches Northland. The underlying issue here is that Northland is taking all the environmental risk and\u00a0making no gains.<\/p>\n<p>Rueben Taipari Porter is a fantastic candidate representing the Mana Movement\u00a0and has\u00a0displayed his\u00a0leadership abilities in the Stop Statoil Hikoi. \u00a0His campaign that\u00a0will be setting the narrative on policy for this By-election while other party candidates will run\u00a0their campaign based on party reputation or political\u00a0experience.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3504\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3504\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3855.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3504 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3855-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3855\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3855-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3855-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3855-495x371.jpg 495w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3855-80x60.jpg 80w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3855-161x120.jpg 161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mana Te Tai Tokerau AGM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder Rueben Taipari Porter&#8217;s candidacy on behalf of Mana in the up-coming Northland by-election was confirmed yesterday at the Mana Te Tai Tokerau AGM. Mr Porter laid out\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}