Green’s co-leader Meteria Turei made a confession, yes, but hardly a ‘mea
culpa’ as Jane Bowron puts it (Try tax cuts for the childless, July
25).
A mea culpa by definition admits fault, and Turei has done no such thing.
On the contrary, she maintains that lying with the intention of defrauding the
taxpayer was “the right decision”.
And to point that out is not to cast stones as Edith Campbell (Letters,
same date) maintains. Voters in a democracy have a duty to protect that
privilege by scrutinising candidates for election to Parliament. It would be
ridiculous to vote for a law-maker who says breaking the law is okay.
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