Blogger and commentator Cathy “Cactus Kate” Odgers appears to say gay people are “f*cking gross” and their appearance at a bar next door was like “having cold water poured over ones nipples” in the latest release of hacked conversations between the players in Dirty Politics. Cameron “Whale Oil” Slater responds to an email purportedly from Odgers, a Hong Kong based lawyer, “Tell the poofs the Islamists blew up a hotel full of poofs in the next province over and they are coming here next … peace and quiet will ensue.” Cathy Odgers, aka 'Cactus Kate" “Texts are gay” he disparagingly says in another document. The emails are the latest to be released by Twitter user 'Whaledump,' with the context being allegations Hanover director Mark Hotchin was involved in a campaign to undermine the head of the Serious Fraud Office. The hacked emails were the basis of Nicky Hager’s book Dirty Politics which exposes backroom political manipulations carried out by a group of right-wing bloggers and others associated with the National Party including an adviser to Prime Minister John Key. Whaledump has previously released correspondence between Slater and Simon Lusk which include homophobic slurs, describe a GayNZ.com contributor as “the homo”, and have Lusk encouraging Slater to portray Labour as having too many glbti MPs and candidates. "Definitely mention there is no role for straight white males in the modern labour party", he says, and follows up with: "also keep going on about the straight white males missing out on decent list position." They also describe the vehicle of National MP Craig Foss as a “gay ute” and Slater criticises MPs for getting photos taken in pink in anti-bullying initiative Pink Shirt Day. "Sometimes I despair at the stupidity of our MPs. They are all running around doing photo opportunities wearing silly pink shirts because apparently Pink Shirt Day will stop bullies. A punch in the chops is what stops bullies, or a Casey Heynes body slam, not wearing a gay coloured shirt."
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Monday, 1st September 2014 - 1:38pm