National is hoping voters will quickly forget about its latest candidate, Stephen Jack, who resigned after being preselected.
Mr Jack was chosen to run in the seat of Taieri, near Dunedin, but his political career was cut short after some distasteful social media posts, were revealed.
Which raises the question of how thoroughly the party vets its candidates.
Checkpoint tried calling the members of National's board, to ask just that.
MP and board member Chris Penk was the only one prepared to talk to Checkpoint.
