The newly elected Wellington Central MP doesn't understand her responsibility to her constituents:
New Wellington Central MP Tamatha Paul will need to represent everyone in the electorate, including the people who didn't vote for her - and Mike Hosking's listeners.
The Green Party team declined to give Hosking an interview with Paul on Saturday night. Paul said some of the Newstalk ZB broadcaster's comments can be "inflammatory" for the communities she represents.
"There is a bit of distrust from particular communities about some of the things that he says that can be really quite hurtful," she told Newstalk ZB Wellington Mornings host Nick Mills.
"That doesn't really align with what we stand for with the Greens and so that call was made." . . .
She has been elected as a Green MP but her responsibility is to serve all her constituents not just Green aligned communities.
Being a local MP means keeping up with local issues and arguing on behalf of local causes in Parliament.
MPs must make themselves available to constituents for any queries they have, including queries that don't relate to Green Party policy. . . .
She might not be the only MP from one of the wee parties who has to learn that electorate MPs have a wider constituency than their members and supporters.
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