{"id":3593,"date":"2015-03-05T09:30:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2015-03-05T09:30:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:30:26","slug":"political-rivals-attempt-to-incriminate-taipari-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=3593","title":{"rendered":"Political rivals attempt to incriminate Taipari-Porter"},"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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ruebenbeach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3596\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ruebenbeach-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"Ruebenbeach\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ruebenbeach-300x166.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ruebenbeach-495x274.jpg 495w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ruebenbeach-254x141.jpg 254w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ruebenbeach.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">Rueben Taipari Porter the Mana candidate for the Northland by-election, recently a political<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>rival\u00a0has complained to\u00a0a producer at Television New Zealand that Mr Taipari-Porter is allegedly\u00a0under investigation from New Zealand Police and Heritage New Zealand\u00a0<span class=\"textexposedshow\">about a particular action he took\u00a0part in\u00a0last year.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">Te Waka Huia\u00a0had filmed Mr Taipari-Porter\u00a0practising kaitiakitanga in the beginning of December 2014 (well before any by-election was announced) that is meant to be aired on TV1 at 10.30am this Sunday 8th of March, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">TVNZ have taken contacted their lawyers in regards to their legal position and have chosen to continue to run the program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">This is a blatant attempt using dirty politics strategies to undermine Mr Taipari-Porter\u2019s campaign by jealous\u00a0political rivals considering the program is entirely unrelated to the Northland by-election. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">Those political opponents would prefer the underdog Mr Taipari-Porter was not seen and not heard during this by-election.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder Rueben Taipari Porter the Mana candidate for the Northland by-election, recently a political\u00a0rival\u00a0has complained to\u00a0a producer at Television New Zealand that Mr Taipari-Porter is allegedly\u00a0under investigation from New Zealand Police and Heritage New Zealand\u00a0about a particular action he took\u00a0part in\u00a0last year. Te Waka Huia\u00a0had filmed Mr Taipari-Porter\u00a0practising kaitiakitanga in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593"}],"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=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3614,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions\/3614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}