Crimp, Louis, active 2012

Date: 2013

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0025555

Description: Shows Invercargill businessman Louis Crimp holding out a pile of money. A hand holds a marionette with the words, the Wadfather (a play on the logo of the iconic 1970s film, The Godfather). Versions of the cartoon offer variations on the text, "To be or yacht to be... with a little jiggery pokie." Refers to Crimp's offer to donate $500,000 to the Invercargill City Council for the Auckland to Bluff yacht race, but only if the council abolishes all poker machines from Invercargill. (Stuff.co.nz, 3 July 2013) Quantity: 3 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0021426

Description: Shows ACT Party leader John Banks in a santorium with major election donor Louis Crimp standing behind him. Caption reads - Far from the madding crowd, in a lonely ward in the Spin Sanitorium, Banksie struggles to recover his lost memory and get his ACT together again. Dear old friends like Louis Crimp stir Banksie's recall of the past and his true identity. Crimp tells Banks, who is playing with letter blocks, "Don't forget who bought those blocks for you, white boy". Refers to Banks' inability to recall anonymous donors of large amount of money to his 2011 Election campaign. Published in Scoop.co.nz Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0021585

Description: Shows John Key attempting to silence Hekia Parata who is holding papers about class size. Behind Key is John Banks who has been put under a blanket. Banks is accompanied by a headless man with a suitcase of money and his friend Mr Crimp. Context: Parata has been criticised for National government plans to increase class sizes and fire teachers. Key intervened and claimed that no school would lose more than two teachers. (NZ Herald website 30 May 2012). Key has refused to sack ACT MP John Banks despite allegations that Banks knew his anonymous donor Kim Dotcom (NZ Herald website 7 May 2012) and accepted donations from anti Maori Invercargill businessman Louis Crimp (NZ herald website 21 May 2012). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0019715

Description: Shows the logo of Invercargill Licensing Trust with a price tag of $2,000,000 attached. The Trust has agreed to remove its ILT brand name from the city's cycling velodrome if city businessman Louis Crimp gives $2 million to the rebuild of Stadium Southland. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).