Opportunity Party’s Geoff Simmons misspelled electorate name in ad campaign

The leader of the Opportunities Party (TOP) has had to correct his election announcements after an announcement appeared in which the electorate to which he is running was misspelled.

Geoff Simmons, who was running for Rongotai’s Wellington electorate, appeared in ads for his endorsement, but the suburb was misspelled.

Simmons, instead, was urging people to vote for him in the “Rongatai” electorate.

He told the Herald that the error must have occurred during the design process, as it was spelled correctly when he approved it.

“Obviously, it’s not the kind of thing you want to do, it’s not the kind of thing I’d like to put in an ad, and the original test that I passed didn’t have that error,” he said.

Simmons said he had already contacted the party’s design team, who had fixed the bug in their Facebook ads. No other advertisements had misspelled the electorate, he said.

“We are primarily a volunteer-run organization, so mistakes happen.”

He previously told the Herald that the TOP party wanted to double the price companies pay for emitting carbon and use that money to get more electric vehicles on the road.

By raising the price of carbon to $ 60 a ton, Simmons said, the roughly $ 1 billion raised annually would be used to implement a series of green policies.

This included increasing the energy efficiency of the country’s housing stock and businesses and increasing urban density, which would allow more efficient use of public transportation.

“Some people have described our houses as ‘wooden tents,'” Simmons said.

The policy would have a real impact on the health and well-being of many New Zealanders, as well as putting more money in people’s back pockets.

It follows national candidate Simon Bridges’ mistake earlier this week, when he handed out stacks of fliers that had his name misspelled.

The flyers, which invited locals from Tauranga, where Bridges is the local MP, to various street corner gatherings over the weekend, instead invited them to watch “Simon Brigdes.”

The ousted leader of the National Party ignored the mistake and told TVNZ that he had “the feeling that people knew the name we intended.”

“Grassroots politics is not always perfect, but it is always real,” he told TVNZ.