But then Mike sent Clayton back down to see me on another, more sensitive mission. When I had my hoardings produced for Selwyn, we only had so much money, and so we took the photograph in black and white and put it up—Gerry Brownlee might remember this—and it was quite dark. Then the National Party team started talking about me not being a New Zealander and not being a Māori, but being a Pakistani, and that word got out around the electorate—"Don't vote for him, he's a Pakistani." Mike Moore called Clayton Cosgrove into his office and he said "Mate, you need to go down and talk to our mate.", and Clayton said, "What for?" He said, "Got to change his hoardings." "Why?" "Because he's too black." Clayton said "Stop—you want me to go down and tell this ex-army officer he's got to pull all his hoardings down because he's too black?", and Mike said, "Yeah." 