ELECTION 2020: ACT list makes gun lobbyist and climate change sceptic electable

ELECTION 2020: ACT list makes gun lobbyist and climate change sceptic electable
Pattrick Smellie
The ACT party has placed a gun lobbyist and a climate change sceptic school teacher at third and fourth place on its parliamentary list for the Sept. 19 election.On the most recently published public polling, this week's One News-Colmar Brunton poll that put the libertarian party at 4 percent support, ACT could expect to bring Caroline McKee, from the Council of Licenced Firearms Owners, to Parliament, and Nelson teacher and pub owner Chris Baillie, to Parliament.The council campaigned against aspects of the crackdown on semi...

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