John Stringer and Cameron Slater continue to jointly fight Colin Craig, throwing some Biblical references back at Craig.
Last Wednesday Colin Craig made two announcements. The first:
The first of the 2 major announcements today is the publication of a booklet that outlines the dirty politics agenda and what they have been up to in recent weeks.
The first false claim is that I have sexually harassed one or more persons. Let me be very clear I have never sexually harassed anybody and claims I have done so are false.
The second false claim being bandied about by the Dirty Politics Brigade is that I have made a pay-out (or pay-outs) to silence supposed “victims”. Again this is nonsense.
Again in a similar vein is the false allegation that I have sent sexually explicit text messages or “SEXT’s” as they are known. Once more this is not true. I have never sent a sexually explicit text message in my life.
The fourth false claim that we highlight in the booklet and that was being spread about by the Dirty Politics crowd was that of another alleged “victim” of sexual harassment.
The second announcement was that Craig would take defamation action against John Stringer, Jordan Williams and Cameron Slater:
The second announcement today is that we will be taking legal action for defamation against the Dirty Politics Brigade. It does not serve this country well to have a group of people who influence public opinion through a web of deceit and media manipulation.
We identify in the booklet 3 key people in the campaign against me. Each of these will be held to account for the lies they have told. Formal claims are being prepared and I expect these persons will have formal letters from my legal team within the next 48 hours.
The booklet distributed by Craig referred to Stringer as:
- the ‘Judas’ within the Party.
Amongst the claims against Stringer:
Stringer must have therefore thought it a “Godsend” when the allegations of sexual harassment against Craig began to emerge.
Two days later Stringer had a letter from a lawyer published on Whale Oil by Slater that said:
COLIN CRAIG: DEFAMATION ACTION
- We act for Colin Craig and have been instructed by him to prepare defamation proceedings against you.
Stringer has returned fire. Today Slater published this cartoon signed by Stringer:
The Bible bashers continue to square off.
Both sides seem confident in their righteousness. They can’t all be right.
Psalms 109:8
/ 2nd August 2015“Let Colin’s days be few; and let another take his office.”
Karen
/ 2nd August 2015I think both sides will be a little bit of both right and wrong but Colin Craig will fail to get the legal outcome he wants. Craig seems to have a weird need to be in the media and I think it’s really clouding his judgment.
Pete George
/ 2nd August 2015“I think both sides will be a little bit of both right and wrong”
That’s what I think too. I suspect it will come down to things like different perceptions of what constitutes sexual harassment.
Mike C
/ 2nd August 2015@George
In my view, it was not for Slater or Stringer to publicly say Craig had sexually harassed anyone. If Craig did commit an offence, then it was surely up to the woman it allegedly happened to, to make a complaint to the Police, not for Slater and Stringer to hang draw and quarter Colin Craig on a public stage.
I still think that there was something hinky about the way Jordan Williams girlfriend, Rachel McGregor, just up and left Colin Craig high and dry a few days prior to the Election, and how she used lots of innuendo and no actual facts to explain her desertion.
Pete George
/ 2nd August 2015Does anyone know when Williams and McGregor started their relationship? Before or after the election?
Alan Wilkinson
/ 2nd August 2015Craig is really putting his neck on the line then given McGregor will be in the opposite camp. He said she said rarely leaves one side unscathed.
kittycatkin
/ 2nd August 2015I dislike the term being used of trivia. There are things that women can-or should-deal with themselves without disempowering themselves by being all girly. If sexual harassment is too broadly defined, then we will find ourselves at an immense disadvantage-and the case for real sexual harassment will be weakened. I remember when there was a serious attempt in America to make a slap on the bum be classed as rape. Great news for real rape victims-I don’t think. If everyone has been something, nobody has.
Sexual harassment must not be allowed to be diminished in the way that child sex abuse was. If finding dad’s Playboys at the back of the wardrobe, hearing people having sex or accidentally seeing an adult naked are sex abuse-as Miriam Sapphira claimed in her infamous ‘one in three’ study, then sex abuse is not that terrible. I’d guess that real victims of all these things take a dim view of thing like the above, someone writing a soppy poem or someone patting someone else on the bum (annoying as that would be) being classed as anything like a sexual attack or harassment.
THE TYRANT
/ 2nd August 2015Personally i think Slater and co should counter sue the idiot for the contents of the booklet he put out as if what is being said is true then contents of that books look defamatory. Got my popcorn at the ready!
Pete George
/ 2nd August 2015I read parts of Craig’s booklet this morning when putting together this post. Now I can’t find a readable copy.
And on the Kiwiblog post that had a link to it:
[link removed as dossier is allegedly defamatory]
Interesting.
THE TYRANT
/ 2nd August 2015interesting indeed
Mike C
/ 2nd August 2015@George
I took screen shots of all the booklet pages on my phone the other day when I was just about to read it, so if you can’t gain access to any links of the booklet, then I can send you the pages if necessary 🙂
Alan Wilkinson
/ 2nd August 2015I’m guessing Craig’s lawyers had a fit when they saw that booklet and told him to pull his head in and get that off the internet quick smart. Just as I surmised at the outset, if he doesn’t win his case he could wind up a big loser, not only politically but via a counter-suit.
jaspa
/ 2nd August 2015If he published that booklet without running it past his lawyers he must be an even bigger idiot that I thought. Does anyone know how many hard copies he distributed?
THE TYRANT
/ 2nd August 2015oh he is definitely a fucking big idiot
Alan Wilkinson
/ 2nd August 2015The scribdb website says the booklet access has been set to private by the author.
jaspa
/ 2nd August 2015There is still a fair bit of it available to read here:
http://www.3news.co.nz/tvshows/newsworthy/a-page-by-page-review-of-colin-craigs-dirty-politics-pamphlet-2015072919#axzz3hFJkLwe1
Budgieboy
/ 2nd August 2015It downloaded completely to my tablet so I have a full version if anyone wants or needs it.
I would say I’m just 1 of at least 50,000 or so that still have it, so if anyone is trying to hide it now they’re in cloud cuckoo land.