17 August 2005
Brash cash slashed
Don Brash slashed his own care workers' petrol promise just hours before giving it, says Associate Health Minister Pete
Hodgson.
"In a briefing on Monday it was closer to $40 million, but by yesterday lunchtime it had been slashed to $19m," said
Pete Hodgson.
Don Brash said the $19 million was "just an estimate" and that he "can't be precise."
"This man wants to be Prime Minister yet can neither cost nor stick by a simple promise. It's clear he needs every cent
he can grab for his tax cuts and he does not care where it comes from. In his statement announcing the pledge he linked
paying for it to scraping subsidised doctors visits for hard working New Zealanders."
ENDS