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Brigitte Morten: Political Commentator on Darleen Tana refusing to resign, the Green Party proposing the Waka Jumping legislation to it's members · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Former Green MP Darlene Tana has responded to the party
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  Speaker 1: co leader's formal request to resign, saying she has no
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  Speaker 1: intention of doing so. Are we saying she or are
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  Speaker 1: we saying they? From memory last time we did this story,
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  Speaker 1: they or she had said that she was only a
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  Speaker 1: they because she didn't walk alone. I don't think it
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  Speaker 1: was necessarily a gender thing. And we checked with her office,
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  Speaker 1: her office, and we checked with her. She didn't really
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  Speaker 1: have an office anymore anyway, and she said she said
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  Speaker 1: that she didn't mind whether we use they or she,
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, we're using she. So. Tana has published a
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  Speaker 1: lengthy letter to the Green Party arguing why she doesn't
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  Speaker 1: think the Greens can reasonably invoke the wacker jumping law
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  Speaker 1: against her, and doing so, she quotes Rod Donald, which
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  Speaker 1: gets interesting. Brigitte Morton is political commentator. She's with us
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  Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning. Tell me about the Rod Donald thing,
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  Speaker 1: because I think that's interesting. She's basically leaning on his
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  Speaker 1: interpretation of why walker jumping ain't good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean absolutely. She's reminding the Greens that they
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  Speaker 2: have always opposed this walker jumping legislation and they've a
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  Speaker 2: posted on the basis that they think it's undemocratic that
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  Speaker 2: if somebody disagrees with the party that they should not
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  Speaker 2: be kicked out on that basis. So they should be
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  Speaker 2: able to basically vote on their morals or their values.
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  Speaker 2: I think the problem is, though, is that she is
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  Speaker 2: not actually delivering on some of those that said those
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  Speaker 2: principles because of the activities that her and her husband
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  Speaker 2: engaged in which go completely against what the Green stands for.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's not taking a moral stand. And isn't she
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  Speaker 1: even in bringing up rod Donald, is she not conceding
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  Speaker 1: that there is no moral stand or dispute that she's got.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's more of a character issue.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And of course she disputes that there is
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  Speaker 2: a character issue. She says obviously that she's done nothing
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  Speaker 2: wrong and that she's been a victim of an unfair process.
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  Speaker 1: So what happens from here a brigitte.
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  Speaker 2: So they've got that vote. I think it's about two
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  Speaker 2: weeks time for the Green's membership. It's quite This puts
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  Speaker 2: there on quite a collision course in quite dangerous territory
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  Speaker 2: for the Green's leadership. The entire caucus, you know, unanously
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  Speaker 2: agree that they should use the Walker jumping legislation and
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  Speaker 2: therefore if the Greens membership does not agree with that,
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  Speaker 2: that means they're going to be quite out of set
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  Speaker 2: with their grassroots members.
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  Speaker 1: Bitt, thank you very much for that update. We will
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  Speaker 1: wait and see what happens. Something tells me this is
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  Speaker 1: going to Whatever happens, it's going to take a very
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  Speaker 1: very long time. Bridget morton our political commentation.
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