Imagine the uproar if National party politicians engaged with gangs, and even their wives hung out with gang members!
Oh, wait…
#nzpol
Dave
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![It’s not like developing a road car where they have to start at minus 20 and they have to be [also] able to operate in very warm conditions.
There is a normal sort of operating window for a Grand Prix car.
And certainly, with this humidity, with that amount of rain, with a very slow lap, with the issue for Max, it never tested them to do that. And now quite a few of them have found out they can’t do that](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4iefuj6msbt3p23wsop4ermp/bafkreib35sl6s5tjoq22jgpsbthw6wooybl2x2vrmv6om3vcstiki34bte)
![Within days of the opening of the festival, media reports began to suggest that it was faltering. During a heated radio interview, Wellington City Councillor Ruth Gotlieb maintained that it was "every Wellingtonian's civic duty to attend Sesqui."
Pre-ticket sales had reached only 2.4% of targets, and after opening, the $12 entry fee to the festival soon dropped to $6 in a desperate bid to attract visitors.[1] The highest attendance figure was achieved during the final days of the event, when 32,000 visitors took advantage of a decision to waive all entry fees, which were widely regarded as being excessive.
Although planned to run for six weeks, Sesqui 1990 closed after only 12 days, on 7 March 1990, with debts in excess of NZ$6.4 million.[3][4][5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4iefuj6msbt3p23wsop4ermp/bafkreieam6bb7spou63npuhqj3smuprmvmshsqb5ya46ogn356zhpmkgze)
