The EFA hits Labour websites
Poor Labour is having a hard time with the precious Electoral Finance Act.
First of all they had to delete any mentions of “Labour” from the budget press releases in case that got the Treasury Secretary prosecuted.
Bill English has just pointed out that by that reasoning the Dept of Internal Affairs is breaking the law, with the Beehive website. The site is scattered with statements statements designed to encourage people to vote Labour.
But it goes beyond that. Whale Oil has heard that Labour Head Office has ordered over a dozen Labour Party websites to be taken down as they are breaking the law. And sure enough the following websites have been taken down:
- Young Labour
- Rainbow Labour
- Pete Hodgson
- Russell Fairbrother
- Martin Gallagher
- Winnie Laban
- Brendon Burns
- David Cunliffe
- Labour North Auckland
- Steve Chadwick
- Mahara Okeroa
- Tim Barnett
Now maybe there is an innocent explanation for all these websites being down. But some of them are on different servers at different providers, so it is not just a technical issue.
Don’t you love it when parties do get their just desserts?