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Thread ID: 135161 2013-10-02 02:13:00 Team New Zealand - Write The Cheque Digby (677) PC World Chat
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1354872 2013-10-02 02:13:00 If you want Team NZ to keep going for the next America's cup then we need to act fast.

So lets all email John Key, Steven Joyce and any other National Mp's you can think of and just say - "Write The Cheque"

You can get their email addresss from their website.

I've done mine.
Digby (677)
1354873 2013-10-02 02:43:00 Kim Dotcom is covering us for the next one :) lordnoddy (3645)
1354874 2013-10-02 04:06:00 Christchurch sits here in ruins needing a lot more cash to put it right and you want more tax-payer money to disappear into the bottomless pit for a silver cup.
I have to disagree with you on this one.
DeSade (984)
1354875 2013-10-02 04:17:00 Christchurch sits here in ruins needing a lot more cash to put it right and you want more tax-payer money to disappear into the bottomless pit for a silver cup.
I have to disagree with you on this one.
It's peanuts when you consider ACC making huge profits , bailing out solid energy. Give them the same as last time.
plod (107)
1354876 2013-10-02 04:21:00 Have to agree with Cunliffe, Rich Pricks Lawrence (2987)
1354877 2013-10-02 04:59:00 When I was in the pub I heard a couple of plonkas saying that they wouldn't feel safe on an aircraft if they knew the pilot was a woman. What a pair of sexists. I mean, it's not as if she'd have to reverse the bloody thing! Cicero (40)
1354878 2013-10-02 05:27:00 Have to agree with Cunliffe, Rich Pricks

The 36 million for the just finished campaign was given by Labour.....yep, its only National which does that kind of thing....yea right!
Nick G (16709)
1354879 2013-10-02 06:15:00 The 36 million for the just finished campaign was given by Labour.....yep, its only National which does that kind of thing....yea right!

Also given it was an investment, what did it return? I believe it was good in terms of payback, but haven't seen the actual numbers.
psycik (12851)
1354880 2013-10-02 07:09:00 I'd have more sympathy for funding it if everyone were racing identical boats, such as a manufacturer's cup without any electronic assistance.

Also no one is stopping the super-rich from buying a 100 million dollar sailboat.

But this contest is too expensive. The next thing is NZ will be competing with the US for the first man on Mars.
kingdragonfly (309)
1354881 2013-10-02 07:11:00 Also given it was an investment, what did it return? I believe it was good in terms of payback, but haven't seen the actual numbers.

No idea either :p

Probably be reasonably difficult to quantify the return on investment. (Prove whether any extra business was due to that 36 million, or even the whole Team NZ campaign).

Still, if the Campbell live poll was accurate (and it possibly wasn't, due to people who were in favour being more likely to vote and watch the story in the first place), a majority of Kiwis want the government to help fund another Team NZ campaign, which makes funding of a future Team NZ cup campaign more defensible than if the majority of people didn't want to fund another campaign.
Nick G (16709)
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