Electorate Committee resigned from the party, citing "the lack of financial accountability" and "un-Christian threats and intimidation". In 2003 she reconciled with Capill, and they gave joint interviews in national newspapers saying that their falling out had been the fault of Adam Owens, and they jointly condemned him. In 2003 Raukawa-Tait stood as a District Council candidate in a controversial and unsuccessful by-election campaign for the Masterton District Council. She finished last. She left Masterton after her election defeat. Life outside politics She worked as CEO of the West Auckland Hospice for a time, and she works as a speaker and consultant and has appeared from time to time as a panellist on the television advice show How's Life. She lives in Rotorua, works as a celebrity speaker. In 1993 she was convicted in the Rotorua District Court, under her previous name Merepeka Sims, for failing to pay her employees' PAYE tax to the Inland Revenue, a serious offence under New Zealand law, because she said she needed the money for her businesses. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people New Zealand activists New Zealand women activists New Zealand feminists Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand politicians Te Arawa people People from Feilding Unsuccessful candidates in the 2002 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 2020 New Zealand general election