(NZ Herald) The Labour Party has sacked one of its list candidates after revelations he publicly praised an anti-Islam column in 2013.
Kurt Taogaga, ranked 68th on the list, said he wasn’t sure he agreed with then-NZ First MP Richard Prosser’s racist “Wogistan” column “wholeheartedly” but called it “brave.”
He was removed from Labour’s list this week after the tweets came to light.
This morning he apologised and promised to “do better in the future.”
In the tweets from 2013, sent before he entered politics, Taogaga asked: “Some kernels of truth though?”
