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Speaker 1: My summation of what we have heard so far in

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Speaker 1: the Judge Aiken case, the did I yell at an

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Speaker 1: interrupted and disrupt Winston case. Aiken was on the stand

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Speaker 1: so to speak, yesterday, remembering none of this is criminal,

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Speaker 1: of course, In fact, I would describe it as outrageously political.

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Speaker 1: Judge Aikin shouldn't be there, No one should. It's a

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Speaker 1: storm in a judicial teacup. Should she have had a

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Speaker 1: pop at Winston at the Northern Club? Of course not.

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Speaker 1: The incident, much disputed in terms of angst, animosity and volume,

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Speaker 1: shows the judge in a very poor light. It was

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Speaker 1: none of her business, and you don't go around running

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Speaker 1: commentary on other people's evenings. Then again, you don't go

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Speaker 1: dobbing interlopers into the Attorney General, which is what has happened,

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Speaker 1: and next thing you know, you have a legal circus

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Speaker 1: where a person's career is potentially about to be blown up.

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Speaker 1: Also disturbing for me, as the casual observer is the

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Speaker 1: Chief District Court Judge's role in the apology that Judge Akin,

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Speaker 1: he involved two media advisers and amended Aikin's wording so

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't offend new Zealand First. At all times, the

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Speaker 1: chief Judge seemed to be obsessed with not offending political parties.

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Speaker 1: His weakness worries me not to mention Jude Aikins's inability

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Speaker 1: to have her voice heard. I mean, she's not thirteen,

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Speaker 1: she's a judge. My sense of where we're at is

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Speaker 1: we will never get to know the full story because

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Speaker 1: the versions vary. Therefore the panel doing the deciding won't

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Speaker 1: come to a definitive conclusion. Therefore, whatever they put before

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Speaker 1: Paul Goldsmith, the acting ag will go nowhere. So maybe

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Speaker 1: what we are seeing currently is the actual punishment. In

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Speaker 1: other words, a judge, her reputation, her drinking habits, which

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Speaker 1: was covered yesterday, her word all dissected. Is the punishment

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Speaker 1: is the humiliation over all, the insight into the legal fraternity,

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Speaker 1: not forgetting the good judges as celebrity doctor partner in

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Speaker 1: the case on the video last week, does not come

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Speaker 1: off reputationally well. I mean, if you wanted to think

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Speaker 1: of them broadly as a bunch of champagne swilling, self

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Speaker 1: serving snobs, they haven't done a lot to dissuade us.

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Speaker 1: But then New Zealand First look like a petty point

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Speaker 1: Scory Losory group of NACS who don't mind wrecking people's lives.

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