Press Release 21.10.11 The unholy mix

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peter-Cleave-Mana-Rangitikei/209073962498104?sk=wall Address on the environment by Dr Peter Cleave, candidate for Mana in Rangitikei to a meeting of constituents in Bunnythorpe, Rangitikei Electorate 21.10.11
There is now an unholy mix of national and local politics happening in the Manawatu.
This has involved Iain Lees- Galloway, the local MP for Labour supporting the Palmerston North City Council as it appeals against a possible fine of $600,000 for polluting the Manawatu River. At the same time disaffected employees of Horizons continue to defect. The latest of these is Alisdair Beverage following Greg Carlyon. The atmosphere at Horizons might best be described as dysfunctional.

The heading for a critical editorial in the Manawatu Evening Standard of October 5th said it all; ‘Horizons needs to claw back credibility.’
• These matters are connected. Horizons Council, issued an abatement notice to the Palmerston North City Council on October the 7th. Lees Galloway is calling this a ‘’grenade’ (Janine Rankin, Manawatu Evening Standard October 21st).

• The abatement notice requires PNCC to stop the discharge from the Totara Road wastewater management plant from causing significant adverse effects on aquatic life downstream by the end of November.


• There are threats all the way up the line with Dr Nick Smith the Minister for the Environment saying that Horizons might face the same fate as Environment Canterbury.

• This is a mess. Lees Galloway is trying to stop the mess splashing into Palmerston North. And unfortunately this mess has happened in and around the Manawatu River one of the most heavily polluted rivers in the world.


• It has to be asked whether Iain Lees Galloway is being disingenuous. If there was not an election on right now would he be making the same noises?

• And it also needs to be asked whether this is responsible behaviour. The Manawatu River is being polluted by the Palmerston North City Council through its plant at Totara Road. To pretend otherwise or to support the bad behaviour of the council in any way would be irresponsible.


• Support for a polluter is misplaced and Lees Galloway is providing this for the Palmerston North City Council.


• Is any of this helping the environment here? Do we need to look at the way other rivers and their adjacent environments are managed and learn from those examples? Should we look at the Waikato River and compare its management to that of the Manawatu?

• Beveridge and Carlyon are scathing in their criticism of Horizons. Beverage says in the Manawatu Standard of October 21st of Horizons council members,’ Some have their own agendas that are no possibly not in the best interests of the organisation and some of them are trying to confuse the issues.’


• Leadership issues are arising across the board here and unfortunately the environment in the Manawatu and elsewhere is suffering. It is tragic that this is happening with the Manawatu River, a river that deserves respect and support right now.

• Would the Auditor General approve of this messy situation?


• The clean-up of the Manawatu environment might best start with the politicians.
Dr Cleave closed the meeting by asking constituents to remember his name and that of the political movement that he represents, the Mana Movement.

And above all perhaps, to remember the Manawatu River.

Press release 21.10.11 The Lines Company- Maori Translation

He korero ki tetahi karawhiti ki Taumarunui 20.10.11
> Tena rawa atu koutou. Ko Pita Cleave au, a, e tu ana au mo Mana ki te rohe
> poti o Rangitikei. He inenga hiko pai tenei, he takahi ke i nga rawakore
> me nga pohara? Ahakoa ki hea au i haere ai i tenei ra kua amuamu mai nga
> tangata mo nga mahere utu o tenei kamupene hiko ko Lines Company. He rahi
> nga whakapae i whakatakoto ai i nga kairangahau o Fair Go ki a Lines
> Company.
> E ai ki nga kairangahau o Fair Go kua piki ma rua, ma toru ranei te utu
> hiko mai i te wa timata o te mahere hou. E ai ki a Fair Go ko Lines Company
> nana nei i mau ai i te whakaaro o te 'smart metering' nei, ka maruhia he
> kaihoko 20,000 i te rohe ki waenganui o te Ika a Maui atu i a Otorohanga
> ki a Ohakune. I te nuinga o nga wa ka piki, heke ranei te utu ngongo hiko
> engari ra ka hopu te Line Company nei i te tihi o nga utu i te tau, a, ko
> tena te inenga utu mo te katoa o te tau. Ko nga kaihoko hiko i rangahaungia
> e Fair Go kaore kau ratou e pai ana ki tenei mahere, a, e ai ki a ratou,
> he nui ke te pikinga o te utu. Tena rawa atu koutou e mahi na ki Fair Go.
> He rawe a koutou na mahi rangahau.
> Kei te whai whakautu a Mana inaiatonurawaatunei mo nga utu hiko mo nga mea
> mahi me nga tangata kaore kau ratou e mahi ana i nga hapori pena i tena
> ki Kakahi me Taumarunui tonu. He uaua ke te noho i nga wahi pena i a
> Raetihi,
> National Park, Waiouru me etahi atu wahi tawhiti ki waenganui i te Ika a
> Maui. He kino ke te apitihanga o tetahi taniwha pena i te kamupene hiko
> nei e kaikai ana i te ate o te iwi. Ko te ahua, ka tu motuhake te kamupene
> nei i tenei rohe. He tauira ano tenei i tetahi ira i kite ai i a au i te
> rohe o Rangitikei; ko te tu mokemoke, te tu pani hoki o tena hapori, tena
> ranei i tenei rohe. Ko Peter Cleave au, e tu ana au mo te rohe o
> Rangitikei.
>
>
> Address to constituents in Taumarunui 20.10.11
> Good afternoon. My name is Peter Cleave and I am standing for the Mana
> Movement in the Rangitikei electorate.
> Smart metering? Or smart gouging of the needy and helpless?
> Everywhere I have gone today people have been complaining about the
> pricing policies of this power company, Lines Company. The Fair Go team has
> challenged the Lines Company in a number of ways. They report that power
> customers in the central North Island say they have seen their power bills
> double or triple since a new metering system was introduced. Fair Go says
> that the Lines Company, which has embraced the system known as smart
> metering, covers about 20,000 customers in the central North Island, from
> Otorohanga to Ohakune.
> While most line charges go up and down with the power used, the Lines
> Company calculates the single highest peak of the year and that's what its
> customers are billed on all year round. Customers Fair Go spoke to are
> not happy with the system, saying they have seen the bills go up
> significantly. Congratulations to Fair Go on a very fair report.
> Mana wants answers and we want them now on the energy costs for working
> and unemployed people in such communities as Kakahi as well as in
> Taumarunui itself. Living in Raetihi, National Park, Waiouru and lots of
> small, isolated places in the Central North Island is not easy for working
> people anyway. The last thing people need is a rapacious power company
> doing this kind of damage to people. This company seems to be in a
> monopoly situation here. This is yet another example of the theme I have
> seen again and again in the Rangitikei electorate; the plight of the
> isolated community. I am Peter Cleave and I am the candidate for the Mana
> Movement in the
> Rangitikei Electorate.
>

Press Release 20.10.11- The Lines Company

Address to constituents in Taumarunui 20.10.11
Good afternoon. My name is Peter Cleave and I am standing for the Mana
Movement in the Rangitikei electorate.
Smart metering? Or smart gouging of the needy and helpless?
Everywhere I have gone today people have been complaining about the
pricing policies of this company.
The Fair Go team has challenged the Lines Company in a number of ways.
They report that power customers in the central North Island say they have
seen their power bills double or triple since a new metering system was
introduced.
Fair Go says that the Lines Company, which has embraced the system known
as smart metering, covers about 20,000 customers in the central North
Island, from Otorohanga to Ohakune.
While most line charges go up and down with the power used, the Lines
Company calculates the single highest peak of the year and that's what its
customers are billed on all year round.
Customers Fair Go spoke to are not happy with the system, saying they have
seen the bills go up significantly.
Congratulations to Fair Go on a very fair report.
Mana wants answers and we want them now on the energy costs for working
and unemployed people in such communities as Kakahi as well as in
Taumarunui itself. Living in Raetihi, National Park, Waiouru and lots of
small, isolated places in the Central North Island is not easy for working
people anyway. The last thing people need is a rapacious power company
doing this kind of damage to people.
This company seems to be in a monopoly situation here.
This is yet another example of the theme I have seen again and again in
the Rangitikei electorate; the plight of the isolated community.
I am Peter Cleave and I am the candidate for the Mana Movement in the
Rangitikei Electorate.

Press Release 18.10.11 Financial corruption

Address by Dr Peter Cleave, candidate for Mana in Rangitikei to a meeting
> of constituents in the Kahuterawa Valley, Rangitikei Electorate 18.10.11
> Dr Peter Cleave began the meeting by ensuring that the constituents there
> knew his name and that he was standing in the Rangitikei electorate.
> He then went on to say that the case of the two former cabinet ministers,
> one a knight of the realm, in court in the Lombard Finance case shows how
> close these ex-politicians are to the whole dodgy bag of financial tricks
> that people are protesting about around the world.
> 'Former National minister Sir Douglas Graham and former Labour minister
> Bill Jeffries are a disgrace,' said Dr Cleave. They face penalties of up
> to $500,000 each for misleading investors in Lombard Finance.
> Some of the charges involved can carry a jail term of up to five years.
> 'Why are Graham and Jeffries and the other two Lombard partners not being
> treated in the same way as former Labour MP Philip Taito Field and given a
> jail term?,' said Dr Cleave.
> Graham and Jeffries from National and Labour, the two biggest parties in
> New Zealand, have allowed themselves to be the face, the apparently
> trustworthy face, of a financial system that went out of control in this
> country to a greater extent than elsewhere. Do we have any major finance
> companies not threatened with charges of deceit and corruption?
> Mana is making several steps to clean all this up.
> One is to take the people protesting around the world seriously by
> listening to them.
> The other is the introduction of the Hone Heke Tax and the abolition of
> GST. These reforms will be used to create a more egalitarian life for
> people.
> Across the board Mana is taking steps to involve people who have been left
> out of the financial system altogether. Better job prospects, better
> transport systems, better opportunities for a better standard of living.
> And there needs to be an end to greed. Doug Graham and Bill Jeffries are
> being tried alongside other directors, Laurie Bryant and Michael Reeves.
> Reeves indulged his love of European motor cars - like the Maserati -
> while on the Lombard payroll.
> Mana will bring a new approach, a new broom for this corrupt and unequal
> financial system which so many people are angry about right now.
> Dr Cleave closed the meeting by asking constituents to remember his name
> and that of the political movement that he represents, the Mana Movement.
>

Press Release 13.10.11- Transport

Please phone 0212343812 for comment on the Press Release below. Thursday 13th, Marton Address to a meeting of constituents in Marton; the transport policy of the Mana Party and you. Kioa ora mai ra koutou, Ngati Apa ma. I’m Peter Cleave, your Mana candidate in the Rangitikei electorate. First you tick my name on the candidate ballot, that’s Peter Cleave, then you tick the name Mana on the list ballot, that’s Mana. Tonight I want to speak about our transport policy and the need that people in our electorate have regarding transport. We live in a big electorate with a lot of farms and a number of small isolated towns such as Marton, Ratana Pa, Hunterville, Tokomaru, Bulls, Halcombe, Ohingaiti, Taihape, Mangaweka. Waiouru, National Park. Raetihi and Taumarunui. In each of the small towns above there are people who are trapped in rural poverty and these people have transport needs. To begin with there is the need to work. This works both ways, for the employer and the employee. Farmers need labour. Can the labour get to the farmgate? Are you pulling my leg? With the price of petrol these days? When you don’t even have a car? And people need transport for health needs. Most of the small towns in the Rangitikei electorate are a long way from specialist health services. To see a specialist in Palmerston North a person needs to travel a fair way from Marton or Mangaweka or Taihape. It’s also a considerable distance from National Park, Raetihi or Taumarunui to Hamilton or Rotorua. So the Mana Movement has developed a transport policy whereby transport will be free for people under 25 and over 65. And a dollar to travel for the people in between. This amounts to a revolution in public transport. Travel to power with the Mana Movement, the party with the best transport policy. Farmers themselves could benefit from the Mana Movement’s transport policy. Travel from the isolation of the area north east of Taihape to towns and cities would be less expensive for people living on farms in that area. The Mana Movement policy helps to bring rural spending power to the cities and Palmerston North Feilding ans other centres could certainly benefit from this. And while I think about it let’s have footpaths in Marton East! Remember to tick my name on the candidate ballot paper. I’m Peter Cleave. And remember to tick the Mana Movement on the list ballot. Travel on the Mana Bus with Peter Cleave as your tour guide in the Rangitikei electorate. Mana has the best transport policy.

Stump Speech to NDU 1 11.10.11

Kia ora mai ra koutou, Rangitaane ma. My name is Peter Cleave and I am standing for the Mana Movement in the Rangitikei electorate. I am standing in anger. I am angry about the wages and conditions of work for people in my electorate, Rangitikei. I want to see fifteen dollars an hour as the minimum wage. I want to see safe and sanitary conditions in every place of work including farms, shearing sheds and abattoirs. I am angry about the housing conditions in small towns in the Rangitikei electorate such as Marton, Tokomaru, Taihape, Hunterville, Bulls, Waiouru, National Park, Raetihi and Taumarunui. In each of these towns there are forgotten communities. They are away from Auckland and other big cities and ‘off the beaten track’. We have forgotten these communities. They live in isolated poverty, ignored by the major parties and not represented by Act or the Greens. They live without dignity, without mana. Transport is a major issue for the Mana Movement. People should not be trapped in isolated places. The search for basic human dignity is an old one. As far as workers are concerned we could go back to Karl Marx who set out a vision based on the dignity of the working person. The search for human dignity is wide ranging. I salute those protesting on Wall Street and across America and elsewhere about the ruin that financial markets have wrought. The Hone Heke transaction tax and the abolition of GST are two steps that the Mana Movement is taking in the struggle for financial integrity and dignity. I began my working life as a member of the Cooks and Stewards Union on the MV Tofua a banana boat working out of Auckland. In those days the union carried out banner high and we had some strength and a little dignity. Where is the trade union movement today? Are you adding to the dignity of workers and do you have support from political parties to achieve this? The Mana Movement is here for you. I know you are angry too. Share your concern by voting for me. My name is Peter Cleave. Tick it. I stand for the Mana Movement. Tick that box as well. Tena ra tatou katoa.