Ryan Bridge: Why was Darleen Tana asked to resign when Julie Anne Genter wasn't?

Question: how do the greens save money on marketing photoshoot costs for the next election? 

Answer: just use their candidates' mugshots. 

Now that's obviously a joke... they're not all criminals. 

But there were a few criminally absurd things that happened during yesterday's press conference about Darleen Tana. 

Chloe got a bit grumpy when a reporter asked, repeatedly, why the Greens are asking Tana to resign and shunning her in public, when old-mate Julie Anne Genter's still in the party despite multiple aggressive bullying allegations. 

The implication was the Greens must be a bit racist towards Tana cause she's Māori. 

Chloe was outraged. She rejected it. She refuted it. It was a reductive argument. Tana has done x,y,z and Julie Anne a,b,c. 

The irony of the party best known for calling everyone else in the room racist till they’re blue in the face not being accused themselves of racism over not one, in Tana, two in Kerikeri, but three MP's (Turei), was almost too much for new co-leader to take. 

The second thing to note here is how little we actually know about what has gone on here and how much Tana was involved. 

The Greens won't say what was in the report, the report's not public, Tana rejects the report's findings, she says it doesn't substantiate any claims of migrant exploitation, let alone her alleged involvement in them. 

The biggest irony here is the Greens, the principled party, not ruling out waka-jumping Tana using a bill they hated and have fought vehemently against for the best part of 20 years. 

A lesson for new political leaders in expediency, absurdity, and how to save money with a mugshot. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to news talks, hebi, it's twenty seven after five. Question,
how did the Greens save money on marketing photo shoot
costs for the next election? Answer? Just use their candidates
mug shots. It's just a joke, people, Okay, don't get
too freaked out. Though not all criminals. But there were
a few criminally absurd things that happened during yesterday's press

(00:22):
conference about Darlene Taner Number one. Chloe, Well, she got
a bit grumpy, didn't she And you could see it
on her face when a reporter asked repeatedly why the
Greens are asking Tana to resign and shunning her in
public when old mate Julianne Genta is still in the
party despite multiple aggressive bullying allegations. The implication of the

(00:42):
question was that the Greens must be a bit racist
towards Tana because she is why Hennah maldy, she's moldy.
And Chloe was outraged by this. You could see it
in her face, you could hear it in her answer.
She rejected it, she refuted it. It was reductive, all
that kind of stuff Tana has done. X y Z
Julieta did ABC. There are differences the irony of the

(01:03):
party that's perhaps best known for calling everyone else in
the room racist till they're blue in the face. Being
accused themselves of racism over not one in Tana, but
two in Ketty Ketty and three and two day if
you go that far back, was almost too much for
the new co leader to take. The second thing, it
was interesting from that pressy yesterday. The second thing to

(01:24):
note here is how little we actually know about what
has gone on and how much Tanna was involved. The
Greens won't say what was in the report. The report
is not public. Tanna rejects the report's findings. She says
it doesn't substantiate any claims of migrant exploitation, let alone
her alleged involvement in them. So there was a lot
here that we still don't know, answers we don't have,

(01:48):
but a lesson for Chloe in political absurdity, expediency, no doubt,
and how to save money with a mug shot. For
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