A couple of gem quotes from the privileges committee

A quick look at the report (it's 280 pages) and some of the quotes made... classic stuff. Looks like a bit of fun really.

Some typical discussion during the hearings...

Heather Roy (ACT): On what dates and where have you met with Mr Glenn, or have you never met him?

Peters: With respect, that is irrelevant. I have been going to the Karaka sales for many, many years. So has Mr Glenn—where he has bought some decent horses, I understood. One won the Caulfield Cup.

Roy: But you have met him?

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(Dail Jones trying to kiss Glenn's ass - NZ 1sts biggest donor)

Jones: and very, very grateful support, that Mr Peters has said, and I'm not aware that he's ever called you a liar.

Owen Glenn: Are you a member of his (Peters') party, are you?

Jones: Can I just say that any suggestion that you’ve been called a liar is not from us. OK? I just want to make that clear.

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(On Glenn's phone call to Peters)

Michael Cullen: ...Can you recollect Mr Peters identifying himself on that call?

Glenn: Well, my mother didn't identify herself when she rang me either.

Cullen: You know your mother's voice slightly better than Mr Peters'.

Glenn: Well, I recognised his voice and the tone of his conversation and the subject matter. It definitely wasn't you, Dr Cullen.

Cullen: I'm sure it wasn't. I never had any electoral petition. When you said he used the first person, in what context?

Glenn: Oh come on, I've already explained to you, you know: "Hi Owen. Hi Winston." Not "hi Owen, this is Winston Maxwell Peters, born in—"”.

Cullen: You think you said "Hi Winston"?

Glenn: Oh god. Mr Chairman, that's obvious.

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Cullen: You seem to go from a deal of vagueness to a high degree of precision relatively quickly.

Glenn: Probably because I've been married twice.

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Jerry Brownlee: Just noticing Dr Cullen's concerns about that call on the day that Mr Peters was leaving for South Africa, you are equally sure on that day that it was Mr Peters that you were talking to?

Glenn: That's what I've said.

Cullen: Did he identify himself?

Glenn: I knew I was talking to Mr Peters.

Cullen: My experience is Mr Peters says "Winston here" when he talks to you.

Glenn: Well, he breathes heavily on the phone—what; I mean, the guy was Mr Peters.

Cullen: So he did identify himself on that call?

Glenn: By breathing heavily?

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