Press release From Outdoors & Freedom Party.
9th August 2022
Sam Uffendell should resign or be sacked and a new election held at National’s expense.
The NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party demand the National Party sack newly elected Sam Uffendell and pay for a new election giving the people of Tauranga a fair vote “said Alan Simmons, president of the party.”
The people of Tauranga surely would not have been so keen to elect a school bully, who was given a rich boys alternative to being expelled from school after beating a much younger boy with wooden bed legs. It’s extremely concerning that Nationals selection processes appear to select according to their rich white boy profile rather than values and character of candidates.
Had his history have been admitted to the voters, the Tauranga by election results would surely have been different. Simmons went on to say that their Outdoors and Freedom Party candidate Sue Grey campaigned on honesty, truth, transparency and accountability. If the election process had given equal access to all candidates people would have been able to learn who had the qualities and life experience to deliver for the public of New Zealand and who was simply there to perpetuate the status quo
Sue Grey was refused entry to important public debates. Uffendel was invited to all but clearly was never challenged sufficiently by the debates or National Party selection process to expose his tarnished history.
Despite this Sue Grey gained 4.99% of the vote. Sue Grey said “the voters deserve much better. We cannot keep allowing these franchise parties to protect their own to the detriment of the public who they are elected to represent. it’s time for Sam and National to step up and display some integrity by standing down. We need Members of parliament with leadership skills to create a new style of politics and move on from the nasty bullying that seems endemic in New Zealand. “
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Alan Simmons. President NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party.
Ph. 0274 980 304
