cogload
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Post by cogload on Oct 12, 2019 13:30:33 GMT
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Sibboleth
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Post by Sibboleth on Oct 12, 2019 15:22:47 GMT
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Post by uhurasmazda on Oct 12, 2019 19:16:44 GMT
I have been summoned. Wellington is hilariously bad, yes. Goff vs JT (both are actually Independents, in point of fact) was fun, with JT uniting a load of chancers from the left and the right to campaign for him and sounding off about random policies every so often. There was going to be a hotline to report homeless people to the police; he was going to privatise the one Council-Controlled Enterprise that is working reasonably well under that model; and he sketched out a 'plan' to turn the Harbour Bridge into a two-deck, 18-lane monstrosity. It was brilliant stuff, and was only marred by two things: 1) he might just have won, and 2) he's a bigoted, bullying dickhead. So a good result in the Mayoralty. The centre-left made some net gains on Auckland Council, which has 20 members and a Mayor. I was campaign manager for Jo Bartley (Labour), who held her seat from a by-election gain. In the ward covering the CBD, a centre-left candidate defeated a former Alliance member who lost the official nomination due to being useless and obsessed with trams. In the far West, a young Labour candidate gained a seat from the Right, but only because he had the endorsement of the outgoing Councillor. However, in the inner West, a former Labour local board member, who defected to National earlier in the year, defeated a long-standing Labour Councillor - partly due to Green vote-splitting, but mainly because he refused to target. So on a party level, it's looking good for Labour next year in Auckland, but the Council is really divided into the pro-Goff 'A Team' and the anti-Goff 'B Team', which don't align along ideological lines. The B Team is up by 1 to 10, which will make things even more difficult for Phil than in the last term. I haven't really paid much attention to races outside of Auckland, but it seems like the most objectionable Councillors in Hamilton have lost, and Labour has gained Hutt City. Most Councils outside the big cities are non-partisan, i.e. run by Tories. |
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