Podcasts Other The Mike Hosking Breakfast Pollies: MPs Ginny Andersen and Mark Mitchell on the campaign trail, crime, Winston Peters, and rogue Labour MPs

Pollies: MPs Ginny Andersen and Mark Mitchell on the campaign trail, crime, Winston Peters, and rogue Labour MPs

Published: Sept. 26, 2023, 8:13 p.m.

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Labour\'s police spokesperson has accused her National counterpart of touring the country "scaring old ladies".\\xa0

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Ginny Andersen told Newstalk ZB\'s Mike Hosking Breakfast that Mark Mitchell is holding public meetings to drum up fear about crime.\\xa0

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\\u201cThese meetings where you go around the country scaring old ladies. Mark\'s being going around the country scaring old ladies, that\'s exactly what his whole campaign has been."\\xa0

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Mitchell fired back, accusing Andersen of downplaying the concerns expressed in those meetings.\\xa0

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"Actually attend one of those meetings, and you\'ll find it\'s not just old ladies, and old ladies care about their safety as well. You might find that it\'s a big cross-section of the community."\\xa0

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Mitchell gave the example of a meeting he attended in central Auckland attended by Queen Street residents."\\xa0

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They\'re seeing open drug dealing happening, they\'re seeing anti-social and violent behaviour, they have to deal with a homicide just about weekly, assaults."\\xa0

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\\u201cThey don\'t feel safe on Queen Street at seven o\'clock at night.\\u201d\\xa0

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