Labour's Peeni Henare has had an election hoarding vandalised with racial slurs and an obscene image, while a candidate for Te Pāti Māori has also seen her sign defaced.
Henare, who is seeking to retain his Tāmaki Makaurau seat at next month's election, posted a video of volunteers helping clean the sign.
He said it was the first time one of his hoardings had been vandalised in such a fashion after nine years in Parliament.
"This is why we stay in the fight and to the coward that does this, your day of reckoning will come!"
Takutai Kemp, who is also running in the electorate for Te Pāti Māori, had the same word scrawled on one of her signs.
"Oho Ake! This is what they think of us. If you’re thinking of not voting this is why you MUST!!!" she wrote on Facebook.
Last month Te Pāti Māori offered a cash reward after a number of its election billboards had the word 'Māori' cut out of it.
Kemp told 1News at the time she believed the attacks were racially motivated as no other nearby hoardings had been targeted and because of the word being removed.
The party believes it's racially motivated and is now offering a cash reward for anyone who identifies the perpetrators. (Source: 1News)
“They could have cut out all the words, they could have spraypainted over everything but they’ve spraypainted over the word ‘Māori’. The word Māori is cut out, and now the actual signs are cut out.”
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