Dirty Politics - Chapter 6 - El Rushbo of Aotearoa

Last year there was a major controversy after Cam Slater revealed on his Whale Oil blog that Auckland mayoral incumbent Len Brown had slept with Bevan Chaung, also involved in local body politics.  Getting sex stories was Slater's tactic, also shared with Lusk.

When the Act Party was choosing between Don Brash and Rodney Hide, Slater suggested:

'Cam,' he wrote, 'we can fuck up rodney'.  He had heard about Hide sending some inappropriate text messages to a young woman: 'Jordan is talking to a girl that rodney had been sending dodgy texts to.  Slater was instantly interested. 'Get the txts,' he wrote back. 'I can get them to Jonathan Marshall, just the sort of grubby shit he would be into'.

The real issue here is Cam Slater and Simon Lusk's obvious disrespect for women.  It seems that all they care about was using women to sabotage their opponents.  It makes you feel sorry for Chaung for what happened after the Len Brown affair last year.  It makes you wonder why women in the National Party put up with this disgusting sexist behaviour, which is sociopathic. 

Again, it's one thing to want to win and beat your opponent, it's another to use women in the crossfire and as a woman, an intelligent woman I'm really offended and disgusted that a) the National Party associates with such criminals and b) that someone, in this day and age thinks so low of women that they're just a pawn in his sick demented twisted game.  It is incredibly disrespectful to bring what goes on in a private relationship into politics.  What goes on in private is NONE of our business, this however is our business because it shows the sociopathic behaviour of Cam Slater and Simon Lusk.

I'm also disgusted that the mainstream media in NZ admires Cam Slater and hasn't held him accountable for his criminal behaviour.