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Wellington property tycoon Sir Bob Jones says he has had a "gutsful" of the Electoral Finance Act and he is thinking of testing it with an ad campaign against the Government.
Sir Bob says robust political debate is now being stifled in this country and he has had enough.
"I'm so overwhelmingly shocked that I should live to see such legislation in New Zealand. I mean, whatever happened to the free joyous participation in the political process."
Sir Bob says he has not voted National since 1981, but he will be this time simply to punish the Government for the EFA.
He says elections used to be fun but everyone is now too scared to participate.
"This is the most despicable thing I think I have seen in my lifetime in this country, I really do, certainly by any Government... this overwhelms me. I cannot believe it happened."
He is considering an anti-Government ad campaign to "flagrantly break the law and have them on".
- NEWSTALK ZB
