The excellent website The Wellingtonista (if you’re reading this site, The Wellingtonista really should be in your bookmarks) has sent 15 questions (crowdsourced via Twitter – that’s how hip they are) to all of the Mayoral candidates. So far they have published responses from Kerry Prendergast, Al Mansell and Celia Wade-Brown.
Each answer was given a 25 word limit. They have been quite brutal with enforcing this limit and it makes Kerry’s responses rather amusing. However the award for best answer has to go to Al Mansell for this beauty…
7. What’s the last local market you went to? What did you buy?
Willis st market- peanut brittle. It’s my one weakness. Well, that, and methamphetamine.
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We just got Jack Yan’s response up too, and if we hear from the other two candidates, they’ll go up as soon as possible. Thanks for the support, and you’re doing a great job keeping an eye on the WCC!
Willis Street is complete according to the Council in the Dom Post today.
http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=27381. What a load of rot. Especially if you have to walk through the mess. Perhaps a Mayor with eyes would make for a better change. Current Mayor Kerry and the councillors responsible for the Willis St/Manners fiasco should be dumped. $11.5 million would have brought several artifical pitches.
John Bishop’s campaign must be failing. He’s the first to go negative on other candidates as can be evidenced in his latest email newsletter. John Bishop said – “A negative note – Councillor Iona Pannett, a Green, is known for her dislike of diesel buses. She declared at the Council’s Strategy and Planning Committee on 19 August that she wanted all diesel buses off Wellington’s streets. That would be the end of bus services in Kelburn, Highbury and other hillside suburbs. The Mayor warned Iona that her statements had been carefully recorded and would be used against her.” Negative campaigning is for losers, but it’s a classic ACT party tactic and Bishop was the ACT media guy. Voters want to know from candidates what they actually stand for. It’s the media’s job to exercise a critical eye.
Bishop’s ACT Party ideology comes through pretty clearly in his views on artificial pitches: For me raising rates is out, but a bit of borrowing, some commercial sponsorship and some ‘PAY TO PLAY’ changes to finance the debt are all on the table.”
User pays for kiddies sport – great stuff JB Sir Roger will be proud.
I’d rather have more cash in my pocket