Aaron Bhatnagar lashes Bob Harvey for his demented idea to transfer all the assets of Waitakere City from public control into a private trust.
Ian Wishart asks why an alleged affair of a mere Families Commissioner is deemed highly newsworthy, yet alleged involvement in b&d schoolboy fantasies by the then Minister of Education was deemed not relevant. My position is that neither are relevant to the jobs, but the media has been highly inconsistent.
Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn also says Rankin’s private life is not relevant – that Commissioners are not “moral exemplars” but “advocates for the interests of families generally”