Laws on local body elections
August 26th, 2007 at 7:46 am by David FarrarFew were surprised that Michael Laws has decided to stand again for the Wanganui Mayoralty. Michael has never been one to give power up willingly. I have no doubt he will get elected again – I suspect with a huge majority.
Michael writes in the SST about other elections:
Auckland is shaping, as ever, as a professional mud wrestling contest. The often peptic John Banks is back, declaring himself a changed man. And unlike Rodney Hide, he did not need to dance to be so. He will beat Dick Hubbard for one simple reason: Dick hasn’t done anything.
This isn’t really Hubbard’s fault. His naivete led him to believe that being mayor would be like being chairman of a board of directors managing a cereal company. Which, of course, it should be. Unfortunately, a team of liberals and left-wingers had won the majority of council seats and Dick thus had two choices. He could willingly become their puppet, or he could fight them all the way through until now and then throw himself on the electorate and demand they give him a team that he could work with.
He chose neither option. Splat. Run down by the traffic coming both ways.
August 26th, 2007 at 9:42 am
“Unfortunately, a team of liberals and left-wingers had won the majority of council seats”
What??? I’ve always thought of *Laws* as a “left wing liberal”. What the hell is going on with politics in this country?? If Laws is really considered the antithesis of Hubbard then the political spectrum must have shrunk to gob smackingly microscopic proportions.
Vote:August 26th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
I saw some of the candidates for Mayor on Eye To Eye yesterday morning on TV and it was pretty unbelievable. In fact, it’s almost like the beginning of a bad joke – ‘Did you hear the one about the lesbian with the cowboy hat, the porn king and the chocolate heiress’ (I am assuming here that the Van Camp woman is associated with the chocolate name – feel free to correct me if I’m wrong).
It’s not a bad joke though – it’s real – God help us all…
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