Labour is having a leadership contest after being trounced in last week's election. The candidates are all men except for Nanaia Mahuta, who is David Cunliffe's proposed deputy.
Over to the sadly predictable ex-Labour MP John Tamihere, who says she was only chosen because she's a woman and Maori. He wasn't even first in the queue…
"The only thing she's lacking is she doesn't have a limp. Then he would have got the disabled [vote] too."
I haven't spotted any comment from him about leadership contender, and fellow Maori, Shane Jones.
But it's Nanaia Mahuta's turn,
"John's comments show male parochialism is alive and well in Maoridom... If John Tamihere thinks that Maori women should be in the home cooking kai, then he's wrong.
I would advise him to stick to his knitting. He's a failed politician who is never making it back in, and it's a bit rich for him to advise Labour on its leadership team."
Nothing to add to that!
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