New Conservative Party candidate Murray Chong says replacing billboards due to vandalism has cost him thousands of dollars. A controversial Taranaki election candidate says vandals who sprayed billboards on his property and slashed all four tyres on his distinctive ute have crossed a line. Murray Chong, New Conservative Party candidate for New Plymouth, said he discovered the damage on his property, at the intersection of Northgate and Watson St, on Saturday morning. Chong acknowledged that election hoardings belonging to Māori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer were recently attacked by someone with apparent racist motives, but he believed the vandalism and wilful damage done to his property was personal. SIMON O'CONNOR/Stuff New Conservative Party candidate Murray Chong says more than 80- per cent of the party’s billboards have been damaged nationally.

Source: Stuff September 08, 2020 01:07 UTC