Alf was drawn to a Sunday newspaper beatup today about a National MP receiving $25,000 from a controversial businessman after The Boss had a private dinner with him at the man’s home.
The donation will be be confirmed – readers are told – when electoral returns are published next week.
Before going beyond the first paragraph the long-serving Member for Eketahuna North was braced for phone calls from constituents demanding to know if he was the MP in question, and who in the neighbourhood was dishing out $25,000 donations.
But it quickly became clear no such calls were likely.
The donation in question harks back to the fuss about a Chinese gentleman by name of Donghua Liu.