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Leader's LetterOctober 2001Brian Donnelly MPI read the other day that President George Bush had injured himself while nailing a frame in a Habitat for Humanity house. “I dropped a little blood for volunteerism”, he is quoted as saying. I know another political leader who worked on a Habitat for Humanity house and although he didn't drop any blood he dropped bucket loads of sweat. His name is Winston Peters. He and I spent an afternoon and a morning working on a Habitat for Humanity project in Kaitaia. You probably saw media reports of some government MP’s who had gone up there, in their suits and driven in a nail while they had their photos taken. Not the New Zealand First MP's. We decided this was a worthwhile cause so we’d work alongside the locals with some genuine yacka. Your intrepid leader, dressed in a snappy carpenter’s apron, got stuck in to building the back steps and putting in a skirting. Not a bad job either. I checked his work. If he ever decides to get out of politics he could get a job as a builder. But the point is this. How many of the people in this room would have known about our contribution to the Habitat for Humanity venture via the media. The irony was I happened to overhear some of the locals talking. They were saying how good it was to see how the New Zealand First MP’s pitched in and helped. “Not like those other fellas,” one was saying. “They just came up and got their pictures taken hammering in a nail and then they took off”. Then another one said “what about that one who had his picture taken holding the nail. He didn’t even hammer it in” Let me say that in the Far North the bush telegraph works well so by now everyone from Te Hapua to Towai will know that New Zealand First MP's don’t just hold nails while they have their photos taken. They actually hammer them in.
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