Glenn hints he was NZ First donor

Audrey Young has updated her blog (no wonder Helen does not like journalists who blog) and has said:

Glenn’s response to my questions about whether he was the sources have come via Steve Fisher at Baldwin Boyle PR firm in Auckland who spoke with Glenn this afternoon.

“He had absolutely nothing to do with any monetary offer to the Maori Party, nothing to do with it at all,” Fisher said. “As far as New Zealand First is concerned, he said to go and talk to them.”

When I said I had talked to president Dail Jones and that he didn’t know, he said Glenn was aware of that but alluded to the fact that the party was trying to track down leader Winston Peters in Africa.

It was simple enough for Glenn to deny he was behind the Maori Party offer, and that is totally accepted.

It would have been simple enough to deny he had donated to New Zealand First.

The fact that he didn’t suggests that he did. He just thinks it is up to Peters to say.

This is huge.  The hypocrisy, if correct, is of monumental proportions.

The Electoral Commission should also be very concerned if NZ First’s view (under the old Electoral Act 1993) of an anonymous donaton is one in which the Leader negotiates or is informed of the donation, but he simply doesn’t tell the President.

And how credible is it that a Party President would receive an anonymous donation and not ask the Leader if he knows anything at all about it – especially when he says he was so curious he even asked the bank to trace it?