One is his backing for binding referenda, by which a governing mob would be forced to adopt what the people vote for.
The second thing is his revelation about the Government secretly selling off another dairy farm to Chinese business interests.
And not just any old Chinese company, but Shanghai Pengxin, the lot that controversially picked up 16 Crafar Farms two years ago.
That deal was worth $200 million, the current buy-up could have them pay $70 million for the 13,800 hectare Lochinver Station on the Napier-Taupo Rd.
Craig has accused the Overseas Investment Office of keeping the deal under wraps until after the election.
Small wonder, if that was its plan, as the Government knows just how unpopular selling off productive Kiwi farmland - particularly dairy farms - to Chinese owners is.
In my view such sales are incredibly short-sighted and economically suicidal.
China is the biggest importer of NZ dairy products and, to me, is wanting to eventually move to point where it can feed itself all the dairy it can eat without buying anything from NZ. Why make it easier for them?
I put it down to greed and the Government's insatiable desire to grab cash from whatever corner it can.
Thank God for NZ First's Winston Peters, who has come out and said he will not be part of any Government that wants to sell off the farm, so to speak.
Good on him and good on Colin Craig, although I do wish the latter would change his signs.
LAST Wednesday I had a rare mid-week night off and was able to take my lad down to Baypark to see him and his Papamoa College basketball team in action.
The game was fun and the guys were showing a steady improvement, albeit not yet in winning form.
Leaving the stadium, it was a quiet night, until we turned the corner and ran straight into what I initially thought was a booze bus.
There were police cars everywhere with lights flashing brightly in the night.
If I had been by myself I would have stopped and got the camera out but, being the night's chauffeur, I decided not to.
With journalist's sense tingling I slowly drove by the first police car and was peered at by the officer.
Hmmm, I wondered, what's going on here? There was what looked like a smashed glass door and seeing an abandoned car up ahead on the Baypark roundabout I figured someone had done a runner and they were hunting for him.
Not too far wrong as I discovered the next morning.
That got me thinking ... what would I do if I saw a person ahead of me, with a gun, trying to get me to slow down or stop.
Well, my basic motto is never give up an advantage so I figure I'd try to run the bugger over.
After all it is self-defence and while a gun may be more powerful than an unarmed person, a 2.5 tonne vehicle should settle who's the boss fairly quickly.
I RECKON something sucks big time in the world of the consumer guarantee.
Take for example a large number of Kiwis who have just been told their three-year-old, wall-mounted Goldair fan heaters, which have the model numbers 3108 and 3109, have been banned.
They are not safe as similar models are believed to have started fires.
As one would have expected product distributors are offering free replacement of the fan heaters, but there is a slight catch.
People who bought them in good faith now have to pay for them to be removed and then fork out even more for the installation of the new units.
That doesn't seem very fair to me.
Richard Moore is an award-winning Western Bay journalist and photographer. Richard@richardmoore.com
