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  • A Dishonest Minister

    From Rich80105@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 11 14:52:34 2024
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/521816/nz-first-minister-casey-costello-forced-to-apologise-after-acting-contrary-to-law

    The article concludes:
    "Costello led government moves to scrap laws slashing tobacco
    retailers from 6000 to 600, removing 95 percent of the nicotine from
    cigarettes and creating a smokefree generation by banning sales to
    those born after 2009.

    Costello's office sent a document to the Health Ministry proposing
    ideas to help develop new laws to replace Labour's smokefree plans.

    The document included the idea of freezing the excise tax and also the
    claim that nicotine was no more harmful than caffeine.

    But Costello still maintains she does not know where the document came
    from.

    In an interview on Newstalk ZB, Costello said the document was an
    "extraction of a whole lot of historical documents - it was sitting
    around and [someone] just compiled them all into one big list". She
    didn't know who wrote the document, she said. "I'm not sure who put it
    on my desk." "

    NZ First - dishonesty is becoming a tradition, but National and ACT
    will now say a word . . .

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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Rich80105@hotmail.com on Thu Jul 11 07:28:49 2024
    Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote: >https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/521816/nz-first-minister-casey-costello-forced-to-apologise-after-acting-contrary-to-law

    The article concludes:
    "Costello led government moves to scrap laws slashing tobacco
    retailers from 6000 to 600, removing 95 percent of the nicotine from >cigarettes and creating a smokefree generation by banning sales to
    those born after 2009.

    Costello's office sent a document to the Health Ministry proposing
    ideas to help develop new laws to replace Labour's smokefree plans.

    The document included the idea of freezing the excise tax and also the
    claim that nicotine was no more harmful than caffeine.

    But Costello still maintains she does not know where the document came
    from.
    And you can prove otherwise? GHo on then, do so.

    In an interview on Newstalk ZB, Costello said the document was an
    "extraction of a whole lot of historical documents - it was sitting
    around and [someone] just compiled them all into one big list". She
    didn't know who wrote the document, she said. "I'm not sure who put it
    on my desk." "

    NZ First - dishonesty is becoming a tradition, but National and ACT
    will now say a word . . .
    No dishonesty, just anti government rhetoric from the most desperate of posters - Ta Da It I Rich 80105 (Clarion call).

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