Run that past me again…

Independent candidate Teava Iro has announced that people don’t know what their MPs do to earn their $50,000 salary. Surely the question is this; after 45 years of self –government, how come people don’t know what their MPs do? Have people been asleep all this time? Don’t people read newspapers or watch the TV news? Don’t people talk to their MPs?

CIP’s candidate for Pukapuka Tekii Lazaro can’t get himself to Pukapuka to start his campaign. He looks lost before he has even started. Dumped former CIP man, current MP now independent candidate Vai Peua is sitting pretty. He’s already in Pukapuka because he shelled out of his own pocket for the vessel Picton Castle to drop him off there. Lazaro tried to get aboard the same boat but was out of luck! Where does this leave the CIP now Peua looks like he may take the seat again?

The CIP candidates were supposed to put $5,000 in the Party’s election war-chest on being nominated but so far only three have coughed up. The election promo is looking more like a shoe string than a tug of war rope.

One candidate in the outer islands wishing to stand as an Independent has to wait for the plane to arrive with his application form because the Ministry of Justice on Rarotonga sent him the wrong forms! And because of the closing times for air mail, it’s turned into a two day wait.

Not one candidate or political party has advocated a new parliament building. Maybe they are afraid that if one was built and there was an office provided for each MP, they may have to go there and actually do some work.

Matavera resident discovered last evening he had no water at his residence. Yet outside it was pouring down with rain. How could this be? The Water Works was alerted and it was found that workers who had been doing some work on the water supply had simply forgotten to turn the main taps back on!

The new asphalt plant is in operation and Takuvaine was first to see the paving machine trialed with the hot mixer put to work laying down an impressive new roading surface. Where? The driveway to the home of “Hot Mix” himself. Why? Because of she who must be obeyed!

With the grounding of Tapi’s boat on the reef at Mauke, all may not be lost after all. It could become Tapi’s and Mauke’s latest money spinning tourist attraction. What about “The Restaurant at the edge of the Reef.” It’s signature dish could be the “Ground” Beef Burger.

By Knott Shewer

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