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Anderton looks safe in Wigram
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Last election, the walls of "Fortress Wigram" were not breached,
but they suffered a crack or two.
Long-serving MP Jim Anderton saw his majority slashed from almost
10,000 votes in 1999 to "just" 3176, raising questions about how
secure his hold of the seat would be in this year's election.
Sadly for his two major rivals -- Labour's local veteran candidate
Mike Mora and National newcomer Allison Lomax -- too much should not
be read into that 2002 result.
Just six weeks ...
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Anderton looks safe in Wigram
The Press
; Last election, the walls of "Fortress Wigram" were not breached, but they suffered a crack or two. Long-serving MP Jim Anderton saw his majority slashed from almost 10,000 votes in 1999 to "just" 3176, raising questions about how secure his hold of the seat would be in this year's election. Sadly
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Anderton faction confident
The Press
; Just how much is that Jim Anderton label going to be worth to his new party in Canterbury? Even that question is one that the two Alliance factions cannot agree on. Mr Anderton's supporters say that when the new party is formed next month the vast bulk of Alliance members will defect. Phil
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The Wigram MP batting at No. 3; JIM ANDERTON
The Press
; ... remarkable turnaround from his days as a merchant of gloom in the mid-1990s, Anderton now has no time for naysayers. When negative news comes along -- like the decline in the timber industry -- Anderton tries to eliminate it by sheer force of argument. There have ...
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Anderton criticised for anti-drug cards
The Press
; Progressive leader Jim Anderton is being accused of misusing parliamentary funding by sending out postcards of himself to schools and asking for them to be distributed to parents. National MP Murray McCully yesterday complained to the Auditor- General saying taxpayers should not have footed the
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Anderton wages war on drugs
Sunday Star-Times
; By Nicholas Maling DEPUTY Prime Minister Jim Anderton has called for a war on drugs and wants special penalties for people supplying them to school-age children. The call came as he launched the campaign for his new party, Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition. Anderton also wants to trial
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Anderton on top
The Press
; Jim Anderton really does walk on water in his Wigram fiefdom. Surely any other politician who had so blatantly evaded an electoral law of his own making would have felt the full force of the voters' wrath. Not Mr Anderton. His personal appeal as a candidate has taken a knock, but he is still likely
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Harre 'has power' to oust Anderton
The Press
; Alliance leader Laila Harre has the power to force Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton from Parliament but has chosen not to use it, a Government source says. The source says Ms Harre has only to write a letter to Speaker Jonathan Hunt to cause Mr Anderton's expulsion. Such a letter would also see
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Failed English investors had help from Anderton
The Press
; Jim Anderton intervened to speed up an Overseas Investment Commission application for a luxury lodge owner he "barely knew" and who has since left New Zealand, leaving millions of dollars in debts. But the Wigram MP and Minister for Economic Development has denied any wrongdoing after helping out
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Anderton's outburst
The Press
; The ill-tempered outburst against business leaders by the Economic Development Minister, Jim Anderton, this week brought back for a moment the so- called "winter of discontent" that marked Labour's assumption of office in 1999. The phrase summed up the sour state of relations that blighted Labour's
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Worries for PCP after Anderton; Vote-majority reduced
The Press
; Jim Anderton is raring to get back into the work of government, but his party is starting to turn its mind to the day when the high- profile leader will no longer be around to save it from political obscurity. Mr Anderton was Wellington- bound this morning, headed for a Cabinet meeting of the
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