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Yevgeni Kozlov Association Football Player. Lee Kilday Association Football Player. His father, saw miller Leo Brownlee, died in His mother is Mary Brownlee. After leaving high school, Gerry Brownlee worked in his family's timber business, and received training in carpentry. Later he qualified as a teacher. He then taught woodwork and crafts at high-school level at Ellesmere College, and later at St Bede's College which he himself had attended as a pupil.
In the elections, Brownlee stood as the National Party candidate in the Sydenham electorate, where he campaigned—unsuccessfully—against Jim Anderton of the newly formed Alliance. In the election he contested the nearby seat of Ilam, and won by a comfortable margin. He has remained the MP for Ilam since that point, although his majority declined until making a strong recovery in the election.
Brownlee received criticism during the election campaign when he ejected Neil Able, a year-old Native Forest Action campaigner, from the National Party's election campaign launch. The ejection took place with what many, including watching journalists, considered excessive force.
In , a District Court judge found in favour of Mr Able that Brownlee had "used excessive and unnecessary force on Mr Abel when he tried to remove him from a staircase handrail". In , Phil Goff and Scoop columnist Paulo Politico both considered that Brownlee was a potential challenger to the party leadership of Bill English — , as he had run for the deputy leadership position against English in early Brownlee then featured high on the list of potential deputy-leaders, but he declined to pursue the position, and on 28 October Nick Smith became Brash's deputy.
Shortly after his selection, however, Smith opted to take two weeks of stress-leave, saying that the protracted leadership disputes had exhausted him. I want Judith to have the strongest and most complementary support beside her as leader. Brownlee said his focus would now be on rebuilding National's base in Christchurch and representing the party's voters there.
With the final election results revealed this afternoon after the counting of more than , special votes, the National Party lost out on two seats it had been projected to have based on election night numbers. For some time to come, coronavirus and the fallout from responding to it, along with the importance of keeping its effects away from our shores, will be the dominant activities for both the government and opposition.
Brownlee was also dealt a crushing blow on election night, losing his year hold on the Ilam electorate. In the end I think there was a real tide for the Jacinda Ardern-led government and you can see that that's the result. He said the party did have a clear daily strategy, even though he'd heard someone say there was not.
We had a digest going out each day with key messages in it. That was generally by just after 8am each morning. There was a clear strategy, without a doubt. As for himself, whether he stayed in Parliament after losing Ilam was something that would "have to be discussed over the next few days It's no more a done deal than the Greens being part of the current government.
You just need time after these types of events to analyse everything that's in front of you and work out what's best for the National Party.
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