Rodney Hide's political future seemed more about a flatline than bottom lines, but yesterday the Act leader, undaunted, laid his coalition conditions out.
The messages for the day were tax cuts and abolishing the Maori seats - Act's bottom lines for a coalition with National.
The third to last day
of his campaign took in a Rotary Club address, an interview on Radio Rhema, the Home Show, a debate at Auckland Grammar School, and a press conference to lay down those bottom lines. Then there was an anti-racism rally, to slag off Winston Peters.
He has campaigned his little socks off, splitting his time half and half between his roles as Act leader and Epsom candidate.
"We've done a good job.
"That's going to help us. We've stayed on the issues of the day and standing up for New Zealanders, rather than engaging in petty politics."
Hide's pick for best stunt of the campaign was at its start, when Peters' pretended to talk to Brash and Clark on cellphones at a press conference.
"He thought he was kingmaker. And that was the start of his slide."
