Metro on Williams
August 31st, 2009 at 2:07 pm by David FarrarYet to buy it, but love this extract from Aaron Bhatnagar:
There was also an amusing set of late night emails from William to Metro Magazine staffers, which goes like this
1:00am – 2 paragraph email attacking the journalist, Donna Chisholm, for a hidden agenda and demanding a meeting with her
1:30 am – 4 paragraph (abridged!) email complaining to another journalist called Jenny who left Metro two years ago, CC’ed to Chisholm, where, among other things, he accuses Chisholm of being in the secret pay of John Banks
5:56am – One line email to Metro “recalling” the emails above.
Andrew Williams and his late night e-mails just get better and better.
His ipredict stock for becoming Mayor of Auckland has only one buyer at the moment. Someone is bidding $0.0001 per share.
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August 31st, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Is this the same Williams that Whale Oil is nuts over?
I’ve stopped going to his site as a result now.
Interesting that the law made by Labour allows the council to appoint Maori seats if they want.
Vote:August 31st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Will this election hinge on who is for or against Maori seats.
Vote:Will that influence who people vote for?
Will it become all big political parties only?
August 31st, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Williams is a grade-a twat – it’s scary that someone with such little self-control can be voted as mayor of a major city. Evidence that the media don’t do their job properly, although I suspect that he’s done himself no favours with this little outburst against the press.
Vote:August 31st, 2009 at 2:50 pm
You’ve got to hand to him, it must be bloody hard eating crow at 0556 with a force nine hang over.
Vote:August 31st, 2009 at 2:51 pm
I find it absolutely shocking that someone with so little knowledge of the correct use of quotation marks could be allowed to hold senior office in a major NZ city. Hell, if we’re going to allow that much grammatical torture, we may as well elect PhilU to government.
I hereby propose a grammar usage test that must be correctly passed before anyone may assume senior office. Those who fail to pass it can nevertheless assume office if they commit to have every written communication first proofed by someone with the necessary competence.
(Note: teh. Obligatory misspelling in a comment complaining about grammar)
Vote:August 31st, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Williams is a grade-a twat – it’s scary that someone with such little self-control can be voted as mayor of a major city.
Its because no one really knew who any of them were! Woods (i think it was) was an idiot and no one seemed to want him back, Williams had a few articles written about him when a key chain he’d been handing out was found to have his name spelt wrong! Name probably stuck in a lot of voters minds when it came to ticking anyone but Woods.
I remember the ballot well, I looked at all the candidates and thought – who are these twats! Then after reading all the fap fap material down to the candidate who said “I will refuse all the salary except $20K and travel expense…” and the old codger who rambled about the state of the local wine biscuits – I screwed up the ballot and lamented the last twenty minutes of my life I’d wasted.
Vote:August 31st, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Pre the election, he had a web-site and he responded to emails from the public. He stood against commercial flights using the Whenuapai airport. He seemed sane — slightly more so than the others.
I will not make that mistake again.
Re the one person buying iPredict shares — sure it’s not Andrew? Wouldn’t be a surprise.
Vote:August 31st, 2009 at 3:02 pm
George Wood was polling considerably higher than Williams prior to the election. Unfortunately Woods unnecessarily went public on his backing of the whenuapai airport – something Williams was strongly opposed to and Williams drummed it up for all it was worth in the last week before the election.
Vote:It was a low turnout, except for (I recall) greenhithe/albany area – not many could believe the result
August 31st, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Good grief. The kindest thing to say would be that Williams is … amusing.
Vote:August 31st, 2009 at 3:18 pm
This is hilarious in the extreme. Williams sent one of the emails to a “Jenny” which bounced back with the message that she hadn’t worked at Metro for over two years. He can’t even get that right.
Vote:August 31st, 2009 at 3:24 pm
You have to wonder how an imbecile like Williams got elected. He appears to have lost the plot completely, while his behaviour is getting more erratic by the day.
It should be possible to impugn his credentials and impeach this deranged mayor.
Vote:August 31st, 2009 at 4:02 pm
wonder what happened between 1.30am and 5.56am?
Sobered up a bit maybe?
Vote:August 31st, 2009 at 4:03 pm
You have to wonder how an imbecile like Williams got elected. He appears to have lost the plot completely, while his behaviour is getting more erratic by the day.
Voter apathy in all suburbs except those that in the flight path of Whenuapai who were not that thrilled at the prospect of it going comercial.
Williams just dangled his mis-spelt key chain into that pool of voters.
Vote:August 31st, 2009 at 7:23 pm
hense the reason for a super city.
pity we have very few, good quality leaders in this country.
Vote:August 31st, 2009 at 11:58 pm
David, is it just your obscure Akl political wannabe mates that attract interest for the genuinely trivial nothing-in-particular utterances or are the largely irrelevant musings of this class of subterranean twits now reportable; if so, why?
[DPF: Paul if you are not interested in a topic, just don't read it. But don't whine that I am interested in things you are not when it is my blog]
Vote:September 1st, 2009 at 12:25 pm
But I am interested in you spruiking this bloke, particularly when it appears unwarranted…
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