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East Coast base for Coffey

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The East Coast Labour Party headquarters for candidate Tāmati Coffey opened yesterday. In attendance supporting Mr Coffey (right) were Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni and Ikaroa-Rāwhiti candidate Cushla Tangaere-Manuel and local Labour Party volunteers. Picture by Paul Rickard

Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni, opening Tāmati Coffey’s East Coast election headquarters in Gisborne yesterday, said some parties wanted to take the country in a dark direction.

Labour wanted Aotearoa to be an inclusive and fair country, but there were parties trying take the country in a different direction.

“That is not a place where we want our children and grandchildren to grow u...

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G Webb
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3 October 2023
Huh, less than two weeks of the election campaign left, and the Labour candidate finally gets a physical base and headquarters here. He may well learn that we are parochial here and someone moving into the district for purely self-interested political purposes - not forgetting he said earlier in the year he was retiring from politics to spend more time with family. All that has changed - but has it? How committed is he to this electorate?

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