Weird hypocrisy
The Herald reports:
Manukau Mayor Len Brown wants the proposed Super City mayoral campaign spending limit of $580,000 reduced – only weeks after saying he would spend $1 million trying to win the job.
And Brown has already spent lots of money, launching billboards some months ago.
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Tags: Auckland Council, Len Brown
December 16th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
I read somewhere that Brown’s funding has all but dried up since he announced that he would welcome Comrade Bradford as a potential deputy Mayor.
Serves the bugger right, and can one of his advisor’s please tell him to stop trying to ‘get down’ with the ‘homies’ when he visits South Auckland, there is nothing more embarrassing than seeing a middle aged white guy trying to act like one of the bro’s from the hood.
December 16th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I don’t see what the problem is. the $580,000 is the LIMIT they can spend, the maximum. If Banks and Brown (the two leading contenders) don’t want to spend that much then don’t.
Christ, it’s not like every political party spends the full $2.4 million is it?
December 16th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Whaleoil perhaps?
And to be honest even though I am a lefty (due more to social than economic reasons) I believe in right led local governments, and I do like Banks, who shall be getting my vote.
*edited ha due to putting Banksy instead of Banks – although I do really like Banksy as well, his art is classic.
December 16th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Brown is going to have a problem if Bradford runs for the Super Council.
Every position she has will be exploited by the Banks campaign making this point: Brown endorsed her candidacy and suggested she could be Deputy Mayor. If she is Deputy Mayor she’ll be in a strong position to get want she wants passed so does Len Brown support Sue Bradford’s policies? He did endorse her after all.
As we saw in the last General Election campaign, mainstream candidates cannot win campaigning on Sue Bradford’s policies.
December 16th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
big bruv, are you suggesting Len’s rapping and dancing moments were embarrassing ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWkT4Ri5U9E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzwis39YY-4
December 16th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
The only thing good about Bradford is that she will advocate for a greater share of the road money to be spent on improving our crappy train system, the world laughs at us when we try and fix congestion by building more motorways – it hasn’t worked the last 50 years and never will, when are we going to start acting like any wealthy Australian, Asian, American or European city and start building a proper commuter train system?
December 16th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
DPF there is nothing weird about hypocrisy from the left.
December 16th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
We, the ratepayers, will fund a decent train system when you (Cyber…) guarantee that there is patronage to justify it. Unlike other cities Auckland has decentralised (was in Queen Street at lunch time – plenty of parking, few shoppers, mainly office workers, backpackers, and beneficiaries), most people in Auckland work away from areas served by rail; only two of the malls (where the shoppers are right now) are on a rail line. Attempts by Planners to force intensification of development around rail terminals has been given the big thumbs down. Although, if Mike Lee, God forbid, is elected Super City Mayor I could envisage him forcing rail use by decree, and by taxing cars off the streets.
December 16th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
There are two possible explanations:
1. He’s going for the “poor us” vote. Suggest a limit knowing that nobody will agree to it, then he can blame the right for their big business connections and big money, and at the same time donations start to flow in to him because of the perceived unfairness that all lefties are poor. All crap of course, since the left take some very large donations in, but politically astute positioning.
2. His funding has dried up, he’s freaked, and decided a good trick would be to limit everyone else.
December 16th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Build it and they will come, as proven in most normal forward thinking cities around the world, why is Auckland so special or different? its the same old bullshit – Auckland’s too spread out, Aucklands a funny shape, Aucklanders like cars too much – absolute crap, take Perth for example, it has a footprint twice the size of Auckland, has a geographical spread much the same as Auckland (linear North to South), has near on half the density of Auckland yet Perth has current rail patronage of 65 million trips per annum up from 10 million in 1990 all because they electrified and built two new lines. Auckland’s current rail patronage is 7 million trips per annum, imagine what we could do with a CBD loop, a line to the shore and out east, patronage would soar taking thousands upon thousands of cars off the roads but no the AA and the road lobby won’t allow it because they have Joyce by the balls, btw enjoy $3 a litre gas in 5 years time…
December 16th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Cyber
Do try to keep up please. They have started. Double tracking, new stations, new trains. All have funding approved.
And train tracks included in the new harbour crosiing