Templeton complains her false statements are challenged

An interesting story by Chris Lynch. Left wing Councillor and mayoral candidate Sara Templeton said during an interview that under Lianne Dalziel Christchurch was resurfacing 5% of its roading network every year but this had dropped to 1% under the current Mayor.

The unfortunate thing for Templeton is that she was completely wrong. In fact in the last financial year they resurfaced 6.5% of the roading network. So this was not a minor mistake – she was completely and utterly wrong.

As she is an incumbent Councillor, her “mistake” is even worse.

Fellow Councillor Sam MacDonald put out a statement asking her to correct her comments and Templeton’s response is to decry MacDonald as attack style politics.

So Templeton thinks being held to account for grossly misleading statements is bad!