Labour’s Northland candidate, Willow-Jean Prime, says she’s experiencing the worst racism this election, of her two decades in politics.
Prime says after seven election campaigns at local and central government level, she’s used to racist heckling, but last week’s debate at Kerikeri’s Homestead Tavern was over the top.
A similar event in Paihia also featured a mostly Pākehā crowd who did not want to hear anything she had to say — and constantly jeered her about so-called Māori preferential treatment.
