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There was a clip on one news. >> Is $8 too much to pay for a block of butter?
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>> Let me talk to Minister Willis. >> Are you ripping Kiwis off when it comes
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to butter? >> The political reporter Mikey Sherman, she said chasing you down the street
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fair go style, asking you if you're robbing New Zealanders for the price of butter. Were you fuming when you got to
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your destination? >> Disappointed more than anything. Clearly, I had some information that I
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needed to share. But at the same time, the finance minister had invited me down to talk about the price of butter is
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what was the topic of the day. I wanted to have that conversation and be respectful cuz she asked for the
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meeting. She gave me a lot of support in our farmer base. You know, a lot of emails and texts from farmers that
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evening saying, "This is disgraceful and this is what New Zealand media has come
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to." At the end of the day, that's the job that I've got and I just sort of run
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with them. But as I say, disappointed more than