{"id":4167,"date":"2015-03-27T07:04:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2015-03-27T07:04:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:04:29","slug":"thankyou-from-rueben-taipari-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=4167","title":{"rendered":"Thankyou from Rueben Taipari Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the usual Election fatigue starting to set in, I would like to\u00a0take the early opportunity prior to the official count, to thank\u00a0everybody.<\/p>\n

I have known for some weeks now, what the result will be on Saturday\u00a0and am proud to have been a part of that historical change. Those who\u00a0have followed this campaign will see something emerge that is perhaps\u00a0the beginnings of a new political strategy to bring the power back to\u00a0the people.<\/p>\n

The constant pressure to expose the National party for its corruption\u00a0and deceit has been a unofficial campaign strategy that no party\u00a0candidate has agreed to, but everybody has seen in the best interests\u00a0of the people that we represent, to achieve. None of us will admit to\u00a0it, but we did work together to put pressure upon this National\u00a0Government and its coalition partners, to show them that Northland has\u00a0had enough of being taken for granted.\u00a0Surprisingly for me, I have learnt that our general electorate\u00a0constituents, 38% of which are Maori, have similar issues to us and are\u00a0as disgruntled as we are with the local and central Government\u00a0practices. This is a positive platform for Mana Movement to perhaps\u00a0form alliances with and work together in the future under Tiriti o\u00a0Waitangi as I have continuously proposed in every public debate and\u00a0media statement.\u00a0the issues core to our campaign got massive coverage and the foreign\u00a0control plan that the NZ Government has been working towards,\u00a0certainly got a large amount of exposure, thanks to us the Mana\u00a0Movement.<\/p>\n

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Regardless of the official count this Saturday, the important success\u00a0has been that the people who support democracy have had a voice in\u00a0this by election and this Government is scrambling to hold its self\u00a0together because of our participation in this political battleground.\u00a0I personally have benefitted in knowledge and experience from this\u00a0campaign and thank the Mana Movement for the trust in our teams\u00a0strategy.<\/p>\n

It has been a highly mobile strategy and with only 4 weeks\u00a0to put a plan together, it has perhaps been confusing to many what we\u00a0have been trying to achieve. The faith by the many members including\u00a0the Mana Executive is most appreciated and I hope that I have done our\u00a0movement proud.<\/p>\n

The rejuvenation of our movement was a priority and judging by the\u00a0response from yesterdays emotional roadshow from Kaitaia, Kaikohe and\u00a0Whangarei, it has succeeded and shows a definite need for the Mana\u00a0Movements authentic voice which upholds many principles and policies\u00a0that no other General Electorate party is willing to defend. Mana\u00a0Movement forced the issues of TPPA and Stop Statoil into the forum and\u00a0through the distractions and bribes managed to get real commitment\u00a0from other parties to expose the foreign control plans to the people\u00a0of Aotearoa.<\/p>\n

Thankyou all to those who have driven for us, cooked a kai in the\u00a0middle of the night as we drive past, given us a bed in every area of\u00a0this massive Northland region, given donations to fund this campaign,\u00a0organised rallies and public hui, and even just sent a “like” via\u00a0Facebook our way to encourage us to stay strong, it has all been worth\u00a0it.<\/p>\n

This is not the end of the campaign as there is still a lot of work in\u00a0the next few weeks to explain our gains from this by election and what\u00a0our immediate decisions we must make take advantage of.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the usual Election fatigue starting to set in, I would like to\u00a0take the early opportunity prior to the official count, to thank\u00a0everybody. I have known for some weeks now, what the result will be on Saturday\u00a0and am proud to have been a part of that historical change. Those who\u00a0have followed this campaign will see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4167","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\/4167","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=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4173,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions\/4173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}