Ludemann - gutter-talk exposed

Annette Gunther's as Blue as they come. She served the National Party as electorate chairman back in the day and has been outspoken in the media in response to several letters that I've written over time, so her political preferences have never been a mystery. Today, that changed, thanks to the snarky public comment by Ele Ludemann, published in The Southland Times recently.
Here's the letter from Annette, published in today's paper:

"Comment unwarranted

As a former electorate chairman for the old Awarua electorate my voting preferences in the past didn't take a rocket scientist to work out.
 However, the report in Monday's edition of your paper has truly altered that preference.
 The National Party regional chairman Ele Ludemann's comment on the benefit of Labour having an "unwanted candidate" for the Invercargill electorate has sadly cost Invercargill and Ms Dowie my vote.
  This comment is totally unwarranted and I hope the Invercargill campaign does not continue this trend toward the gutter."

ANNETTE GUNTHER
Wallacetown.

Ms Ludemann was ill-advised, and advised I'm sure she was, to make the un-called-for comment. Her doing so was however, no surprise to me, having heard on many occasions at public meetings, Bill English employ the same "gutter" methods in order to cast aspersions on his opponents and where the slagging was too nasty even for him, use proxies in the audience to do the sledging. All part of the National Party (un) fair-play-book.
Ms Ludemann should be ashamed, but I suspect she'll brash it out, just as Collins, Parata, Bennett, Tolley et al do on a regular basis. It's nasty behaviour, in my opinion, from a party that embraces such behaviour and even seems to revel in it.