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In the Beehive, meanwhile, documents were being shredded and wheeled rubbish bins were being carted in and out of offices as staff packed up to make way for the new administration.
A little publicised out-come of the 2008 general election is the end of Heather Simspon's career (H2). H2 was widely regarded as the most power unelected official in NZ's history. She was a member of Clark's kitchen cabinet and even sat in on cabinet meetings. She was the ultimate backroom dealer.
H2's reputation was tarnished beyond repair during the last election campaign where she used the power of the PM's office to badger parliamentary services to pick-up the tab for Labour's election expenses to the tune of $820,000. Most notable was the pledge card (over $400k). There is email evidence which clearly shows H2 agreed to include the cost of the pledge card as an election expense therefore count against their cap. She totally backtracked on this after the election.
Sure, this is old news, but anyone who thinks Labour's 2005 overspend isn't significant needs to consider that the $820K overspend + NZ1st $160K essentially is the equivalent to half an election campaign!
So we have established Heather has a less than ethical record, which is why we haven't seen her since the election. NX-Files suspects that as soon as it was clear that Labour weren't going to win, H2 has been coordinating a massive document shredding exercise because she knows where all the bodies are buried.
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