{"id":599859,"date":"2026-09-14T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599859\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:52:10","slug":"election-billboards-vandalised-debbie-ngarewa-packer-and-ryan-hamilton-hit-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599859\/","title":{"rendered":"Election billboards vandalised: Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Ryan Hamilton hit out"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ngarewa-Packer said her billboard team was her husband and a handful of \u201chearty\u201d supporters who volunteered on top of other commitments.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can handle being defaced … as long as you all get enrolled, vote & get this govt out.\u201d<\/p>\n
She claimed there was \u201ca correlation between the Govt we have & the behaviour emboldened by them\u201d, adding some of that behaviour was now \u201cplaying out here\u201d.<\/p>\n
Election sign vandals \u2018cowards\u2019 \u2013 National MP<\/p>\n
A National Party MP whose election billboards have been \u201crepeatedly\u201d damaged also hit out, branding the vandals \u201ccowards\u201d.<\/p>\n
Hamilton East MP Ryan Hamilton addressed the taggers in a fiery video posted to his social media accounts yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to be intimidated by it… So I\u2019m going to keep coming,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The billboard, which features Hamilton and National Party leader Christopher Luxon, was spray-painted with the word \u201cfascist\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cSee you next Tuesday, real funny,\u201d Hamilton quipped, referring to another message written in sprawling, bold orange.<\/p>\n
National Party MP Ryan Hamilton invited the taggers who vandalised his sign to have a conversation. Photo \/ Ryan Hamilton MP<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, someone probably comes around in the middle of night, in the shadow of darkness, like a coward, with a hoodie on and their spray paint can. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhy don\u2019t you give me a call or an email and we\u2019ll talk about it instead of being a coward and going on to private property and vandalising it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamilton said he had \u201cplenty more signs\u201d.<\/p>\n
He then plugged National\u2019s election slogan, saying: \u201cWe\u2019re determined to fix the basics and build the future,\u201d before the clip abruptly cuts off.<\/p>\n
In a message accompanying the video, Hamilton reissued his invitation to talk.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you disagree with me or want to discuss something, pick up the phone, send me an email, or come and have a conversation,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t go around under the cloak of darkness vandalising other people\u2019s property.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ngarewa-Packer said her billboard team was her husband and a handful of \u201chearty\u201d supporters who volunteered on top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,74,95,4548,100452,17464,5903,6288,3594,13489,2720,111,43,139,295694,69,3111,46800,69724,5128,45638,9521,29262],"class_list":["post-599859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-after","tag-and","tag-billboard","tag-billboards","tag-debbie","tag-election","tag-hamilton","tag-hit","tag-leader","tag-mori","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-ngarewapacker","tag-nz","tag-out","tag-pti","tag-racist","tag-ryan","tag-scrawled","tag-slur","tag-vandalised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}