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Credibility and experience top UnitedFuture list

UnitedFuture President Judy Turner today released the party’s list for the 2011 general election, calling it “a mix of maturity, experience, and fresh faces for the future”.
“The party has hand-picked a credible group, ready to enter Parliament and make a strong contribution,” she said.
In the top five are noted outdoors advocates Doug Stevens and Alan Simmons, former Prime Ministerial Chief of Staff Rob Eaddy and the Chief Executive of the Federation of the Islamic Association of New Zealand, Sultan Eusoff.
Party leader Peter Dunne said that he was delighted with the calibre of the candidates, and that UnitedFuture offered voters a “strong, sharp and able” team to help keep a second-term National-led government “on a track that New Zealanders would want”.
The list members and the electorates they represent are:
 
1                                             Peter Dunne (Ohariu)
2                                             Doug Stevens (Nelson)
3                                             Rob Eaddy (Hutt South)
4                                             Sultan Eusoff (Palmerston North)
5                                             Alan Simmons (Taupo)
6                                             Bryan Mockridge (Mt Roskill)
7                                             Vanessa Roberts (Ilam)
8                                             Pete George (Dunedin North)
9                                             Ram Prakash (Botany)
10                                         Martin Gibson (East Coast)
11                                         Clyde Graf (West Coast-Tasman)
12                                         Damian Light (North Shore)
13                                         Andrew McMillan (Rangitata)
14                                         Diane Brown (Otaki)... Read the full text of this article.

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Al Varney
Since: Apr 2011
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Credibility? What credibility? This time last year, Mr Dunne was on record as saying he would "seek an immediate ban on the continued use of 1080 in any shape or form."

http://www.3news.co.nz/Peter-Dunne-calls-for-1080-ban/tabid/1160/articleID/186233/Default.aspx

Today, his line is "we have never been so irresponsible as to suggest it should be phased out in the absence of an alternative."

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/the-wellingtonian/6062559/Peter-Dunne-looks-ahead

Personally, I'm glad to see Mr Dunne backpeddle so spectacularly as I strongly support the use of 1080 as part of an essential toolkit to control our agricultural and conservation pests. But if I had voted for him last Saturday, I would be seriously questioning his scruples right now!

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