Mr Pontell

A guy called Jonathan Pontell has been claiming to be some sort of strategic advisor for National on the Linda Clark show. Russell Brown has his doubts.

For my part I have never ever heard of this guy. Not that people should take that as authoritative, because I don’t have any official role in the campaign, and there may be many people I don’t know.

But more to the point, if a political party hired an advisor, do you really think the deal would involve him going on TV and radio to tell everybody about his winning theories?

The point about paying for an advisor, is that it is your advisor. The fact that the guy is all over the media should let you draw your own conclusions as to whether he is working for anyone, let alone National.