Labour in Otaki
May 8th, 2011 at 11:10 am by David FarrarNZPA report:
Raumati lawyer Peter Foster will contest the Otaki seat for the Labour Party in November’s election.
Mr Foster also sought the Mana by-election nomination.
Labour Party President Moira Coatsworth today described Mr Foster as a family man who had lived and worked in Otaki for 11 years.
“I have every confidence that Peter will hit the ground running and bring the Otaki seat back to Labour,” Moira Coatsworth said.
Mr Hughes held the Otaki seat for two terms before losing to National’s Nathan Guy in 2008 by 1354 votes.
Both Darren and Nathan were highly respected local MPs. That s why the seat was so close in 2005 and 2008. Mr Foster has some large shoes to fill, and the potential is there for Nathan to turn the seat from marginal to safe.
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May 8th, 2011 at 11:17 am
DPF: “Mr Fister has some large shoes to fill….”
Freud is alive and well.
Now to clean up the spilt coffee.
[DPF: Oh dear. That was a genuine typo, now corrected]
Vote:May 8th, 2011 at 11:29 am
will he be lodging at Kings place
Vote:when is the Hughes “investigation” going to be completed so the cloud hanging over him can be lifted and everyone can move on?
May 8th, 2011 at 12:28 pm
im sure darran is still highly respected. honest.
wonder if hes on the dole yet
Vote:May 8th, 2011 at 1:07 pm
What? A professional and family man standing for Labour?
And I thought they were all unionists and homosexuals in that party? Obviously I have been reading far too much of the wrong sort of propaganda BS…
Vote:May 8th, 2011 at 1:19 pm
RRM…You are mistaken neither the Honourables Benson-Pope or Shane Jones are homosexuals…I think.
Vote:May 8th, 2011 at 1:27 pm
I seriously doubt that Nathan will make it a safe seat. National has completely disregarded the views of Kāpiti people, and there will be backlash from Joyce’s Kāpiti Expressway plans. Don’t think the Government will get away with this DPF
[DPF: National actually changed the planned route due to the views of local people. There are now another group of local people who are upset. This happens whenever there is a new road - whatever option is chosen upsets some people.]
Vote:May 8th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Jack – I think you have pretty Large blinkers on. As a person who describes themself as Youth MP for 2010 (Sue Kedgley) and am on the Kapiti Coast District Youth Council and a member of the Green Party in the Mana Branch, I think your point is lost with your youthful and earnest bias.
Reality is that bar the very few people impacted directly by the expressway who do not like the express way, many thousands do simply because the transport links will be so much more efficient.
Nathan Guy will return with a massively increased majority, both on the back of his great work as a local MP, the massive popularity of the National Government, and that Dazza Hughes got himself into a dispicable predicament where a young 18 year old escaped from Annette King’s house and was running around Haitaitai naked.
Vote:May 8th, 2011 at 3:37 pm
From Raumati? He’ll only get the hardcore Labour vote up north, Levin/Shannon/Foxton. Typical Kapiti, obviously nothing exists further north than Te Horo….Nathan Guy will pants this prick.
Jack McDonald has his POV on the expressway, the view further north is that it can’t happen soon enough. Go back to bloody school.
Vote:May 8th, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Dazza: Fully agree.
There’s a very small but very vocal bunch of people in Kapiti that are anti expressway. The rest of us just can’t wait for it to be built. Labour is in for a trouncing.
Vote:May 8th, 2011 at 7:16 pm
There is certainly a small vocal minority of people in Kapiti who are anti everything. For the majority, the road can’t come quick enough. This is the silent majority. Under Labour, & let’s not fool ourselves, nothing of any enduring significance would ever have happened. The new airport & the road are good things that will enable Kapiti to grow as it should be able to. Employment for our young, greater business opportunities, & increased mobility for those who choose to reside here.
Vote:May 8th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
Just what we need another Lawyer… Although better than tea and gingernuts at Darrens…
Vote:May 9th, 2011 at 10:46 am
There is actually a groundswell of people uniting to oppose the Expressway. And DPF that’s because NZTA chucked a heap of options at people, didn’t give the option of no expressway at all, and then it forced people to choose the route that effected them least. The route still cuts through wāhi tapu, destroys ecology and homes. A small two-lane local road and a bridge over the Waikanae River could reduce SH1 congestion by 40%.
SH1 could be upgraded and widened. Public transport should be invested in far more so trains are affordable, reliable and frequent.
Where is the sense in building more and more roads (when our country is in serious financial trouble, borrowing $300 million a week).
Vote:This expressway proposal has a cost benefit ratio of 0.4! And in this years budge Health and Education funding won’t keep up with the rate of inflation.
May 9th, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Jack, I live in Kapiti & I know the majority of the Kapiti population are not opposed to the expressway. It’s not only about Kapiti, it’s about the ten of thousands of your fellow NZer’s who traverse through Kapiti everyday. The efficient transportation of good & services around NZ. A small minority will not hold the rest of NZ to ransom. That’s not to say I’m without sympathy for those having to move from their homes to enable the expressways construction.
Vote:May 9th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Actually I think Mr Foster has more than one large pair of shoes to fill. Darren kept the shoes his young student friend left behind when he bolted!!
Vote:May 9th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
@coge A road with this kind of cost-benefit ratio is not the country needs in these hard times. And you seem to disregard the very real threat of the end of cheap oil.
And, coge, I’m not saying Kāpiti people support or oppose it (like you seem to be doing), many have both opinions, but surely you recognize the sham that was the Government’s consultation. The way they designed those things was always going to lead the an answer they wanted to hear, an expressway.
It discussed different expressway options, not different transport options which is the role of NZTA.
Vote: