This is interesting.
Six mainstream churches have rejected advice from the Electoral Commission that they should register as third parties to run a $100,000 campaign on social justice before this year’s election.
The churches are distributing 50,000 copies of the first of five leaflets, on child poverty, coinciding with the Budget this week.
Methodist Church president Brian Turner said the Electoral Commission recommended that they should “err on the side of caution” and register as third parties under the new Electoral Finance Act. But they decided not to.
“We don’t see it as electioneering or promoting any particular party against others, so we didn’t see the need to register,” he said.
Interesting how most people (leaving aside church haters) would not consider these churches to be rich pricks “buying” elections.
Yet they appear to be being caught by the law. All that time, we were told that the only rich people buying elections would want to spend that much.
Funny how their left-wing approach to poverty extends to a left-wing approach towards the law too.
