“…The Maori Party hoped to be a part of any government, regardless of its leanings.
Then [Pita Sharples] confessed: “Actually, I got so used to the increase in salary I told the Prime Minister you’d better be good because if the other guys get in – I’ll go sell myself over there to keep my ministerial salary.
I just got a new house, man – I can’t afford it on a backbencher salary -
- so I’m up for grabs.”..”
(cont..)
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