The ACT Party launched its election campaign on Sunday, an event summed up with two words - disruption and division.
While introducing anti-co-governance policies, leader David Seymour was heckled by protesters within the crowd before they were physically removed.
Like an image out of a pink Wizard of Oz, Seymour appeared on stage from behind a curtain in a puff of haze.
He was a lone figure attempting to sell his vision of New Zealand, but he was shouted down by Vision New Zealand.
The protester is Karl Mokaraka, the same protester who popped up at a National event.
But this time he was incognito with a fake moustache.
Despite ACT checking names and bags at the door, no one noticed him coming in - perhaps it was the moustache.
Seymour said ACT would be asking the question of how Mokaraka got into the event.
Seymour attempted to push on with his speech. But the carry-on carried on until finally security moved him on.
ACT supporters were charged up on Seymour's pink Kool-Aid, seething with anger at everyone. One of our camera operators was even hit by members of the audience.
"That's unacceptable," Seymour said.
The political discourse is divided but Seymour says that's nothing to do with him.
"I don't take responsibility for the actions of other people that are wrong."
But he did of course double down on his co-governance schtick and pitched his referendum on the Treaty.
"We all matter," he said. "This country deserves a say on what the Treaty means."
He also pedalled Don Brash lines.
"Only one party stands on this principle of one Kiwi, one vote," Seymour said.
He also suggested people are being forced to use te reo Māori.
"The way to turn a treasure into a form of torture is to impose it on people by force, perhaps with the very best of intentions."
Seymour went for broke on the race debate whipping it up as the one issue on which to launch his campaign.
He released a policy document titled 'A path from co-government to democracy' - a follow-up to a welfare policy announced this week taking aim at beneficiaries.
Seymour denied using beneficiaries and Māori as a political punching bag.
But Labour's Chris Hipkins said parties on the right "are more than happy to try and split Māori off from the rest of the New Zealand community in order to try and gain some votes".
Seymour said the "debate is there".
"People don't like Government policies that divide them by race."
Hipkins said: "They've only been divisive because some parties have been trying to make them a divisive issue."
Newshub asked National's Christopher Luxon if he was concerned by how much Seymour was steering into the race debate.
"At the end of the day I want to make sure New Zealand becomes a more unified country," he said.
Seymour said he is just "responding to what people are saying to me on the street every day".
He's sticking to his guns no matter how divisive.
