Millionaire and budding politician Gareth Morgan has published his correspondence with a journalist after being called chicken for declining a game of table tennis.
Steve Braunias is approaching party leaders and challenging them to a game of table tennis, followed by an interview, as part of a pre-election series for the Herald.
Morgan, who is bidding to enter Parliament with his newly-formed Opportunities Party, wasn't impressed, informing Braunias over email that "you may be aware there is a general election on September the 23rd".
"Given that I am the founder and leader of a new Party contesting that election I am sure you understand this is a busy time for me - far busier than for leaders of Establishment parties who have substantial party infrastructure to delegate to," Morgan wrote.
"A game of ping pong might be appealing under different circumstances but I doubt it would contribute much to the public discourse about the many problems facing New Zealanders in their everyday lives and the policy solutions needed to rectify them."
