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Rich of Observationz

Sat, 14 Sept 2013 20:39:32 +1200

BTW, if you are looking for Press or other Fairfax content from the quake era, it's largely up on https://quakestudies.canterbury.ac.nz/. Searchable and downloadable PDF files. Built by the late, (not in a corporeal sense) great team at Learning Media.

Rich of Observationz

Sat, 14 Sept 2013 20:35:55 +1200

Christchurch

That is truly brilliant.

I don't believe Hide's thing that councils are only about services and hence apolitical, because services (and everything else) are intrinsically political.

But I don't buy the idea that councils can conduct an industrial policy that they have neither the fund or legislative basis to…

Steve Barnes

Sat, 14 Sept 2013 14:49:15 +1200

now her brains are leaving it can only get worse.

On the midnite train to Georgia perhaps? ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQjMIKt8CPg&list=PLovaPwrUVUruh7HCqXcxBfsVfspZqY3dqen

Even more fun than politics...

Hebe

Sat, 14 Sept 2013 11:18:24 +1200

I noticed that too... now her brains are leaving it can only get worse.

Hebe

Sat, 14 Sept 2013 11:10:10 +1200

Youve got it; a fine piece revealing how daft the woman is. It was a Star front page mid-August. it’s (just) possible to search Mainland Press or the Christchurch Star on issuu.com which gives you front pages then you can snapshot/copy+paste. Tedious.

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 14 Sept 2013 10:06:51 +1200

in fiddles...
....place no better than a swamp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44CJz1Ukang
I reckon Doug Kershaw woulda made a great Cajun Doctor Who...

Joe Wylie

Sat, 14 Sept 2013 10:04:37 +1200

Council CEO Marryatt's talent for chicken hypnosis appears to work best on the demonstrably bone stupid. While Wells and Parker retained enough higher brain function to recognise the inevitable, Button and the hapless Councillor Keown bear out Nietzsche's words: "The streak of chalk bewitcheth the hen; the stroke he struck…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 14 Sept 2013 09:35:02 +1200

stitched up...
Try Christchurch.
I read* that Ngaire Button tried to pull her nomination for Councillor after Sue Wells bailed without telling her – it appears Wells decided not to run because she was only there to support Bob, and seemingly unbeknownst to Wells, Button thought she was there to…

Stephen Judd

Fri, 13 Sept 2013 22:27:19 +1200

Wellington’s council candidates seem to vary between mildly useless and truly offensive.

I don’t think any of them understand what a city council does or what the role of councillors is.

Try Christchurch.

Sacha

Fri, 13 Sept 2013 21:46:38 +1200

Kia ora. Good to see you here, Jack.

Sacha

Fri, 13 Sept 2013 21:45:51 +1200

A council doesn't "lead the growth of the city ... it regulates building development and use

I trust you can see some connection between those two parts of your sentence. Even Rodney Hide had to admit councils do more than rats, roads and rubbish when he was in charge of…

Keir Leslie

Fri, 13 Sept 2013 17:16:42 +1200

I think Paul Eagle has done really good work as far as pushing the Council to be a decent employer goes.

Stephen R

Fri, 13 Sept 2013 16:58:21 +1200

A council doesn't "lead the growth of the city into the bright pastures of a new tomorrow" – it disposes of shit and garbage (and runs other important services, regulates building development and use, etc). The task of council is do these jobs effectively – improving employee engagement would be…

Hebe

Fri, 13 Sept 2013 16:14:25 +1200

That’s rather good: specially the photo which doesn’t look a million miles from the view of the city from up on Huntsbury on a foggy day. I like tumbleweed tunes. Hebe (not Greg who has his own PAS name now).

Steve Barnes

Fri, 13 Sept 2013 15:31:38 +1200

Just because its Friday and just because it has the words “Y'all ain’t from around here are ya” and cos its got a good tune.
Not at all because the ongoing crap in Christchurch may end up leaving the place no better than a swamp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyul2MlvNGg

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 13 Sept 2013 12:39:44 +1200

Wellington's council candidates seem to vary between mildly useless and truly offensive.

I don't think any of them understand what a city council does or what the role of councillors is.

A council doesn't "lead the growth of the city into the bright pastures of a new tomorrow" – it…

Carol Stewart

Fri, 13 Sept 2013 11:39:56 +1200

Amazingly, Stephen R, John Morrison wasn't even the most obnoxious candidate in the debate last night. That was Rob Goulden, who was petty, negative and vindictive throughout. He got a resounding boo from the audience when he slagged off Mayor Celia for cycling to the airport to meet Hillary Clinton…

Stephen R

Fri, 13 Sept 2013 11:07:55 +1200

There used to be a big poster down Cobham drive saying "VOTE JOHN MORRISON FOR STRONG LEADERSHIP" or something like that (I usually drive past at 70kmh, so only paid partial attention) in day-glow yellow.

Every time I drove past I muttered under my breath about defacing the sign to…

Carol Stewart

Fri, 13 Sept 2013 10:28:59 +1200

Did you go to the mayoral debate at Massey last night, Christopher?
That event was brought up by someone in the audience to challenge John Morrison, although unfortunately the person asking the question was very tedious and rambling and it was difficult to work out what he was asking. John…

Angus Osborne

Thu, 12 Sept 2013 21:21:25 +1200

I checked my local candidates, most of whom are listed as "Not living in the area ...", but I know where a couple of them live and they definitely live in the Ward. The site might not be accurate.

Christopher Nimmo

Thu, 12 Sept 2013 15:52:23 +1200

There are Green candidates in Eastern and Lambton, so I suppose they wanted to spread things around. I assume that Peter Gilberd is the defacto Green candidate in Northern.

Southern would have had seven locals of course, except that one of them decided to shift up here to Northern at…

tony j ricketts

Wed, 11 Sept 2013 09:10:10 +1200

It's very hard to find much about the philosophical/political/party inclinations of most candidates (so-called independents, or with bland party names often involving 'team') and it could well be that the Green candidate was asked by his party to stand in an area where he stands a chance, as the Mayor…

Keir Leslie

Tue, 10 Sept 2013 10:23:20 +1200

I agree. I think that especially in post-quake Christchurch, there's a lot of people who're living in places thy'd never planned to.

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 10 Sept 2013 10:04:06 +1200

at issue, at issue, we all fall…
Spare a thought for those who may be allergic to candidates; feel free to use these as you see fit…

Hebe

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 22:24:26 +1200

No specifics, no vote for me.

Rob Stowell

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 21:45:10 +1200

Heaven knows we have little enough information to judge their value as representatives.
Amen. There's a few key questions I'd like answers to before I vote for anyone. But I'm gonna be out of town for the best chance to ask at a public meeting. Hoping there will be on-line…

Kiwiiano

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 21:15:27 +1200

If a candidate doesn't identify his or her address and a check in phonebooks and the 'net fails to locate them, they're automatically excluded for 'lack of contactability' at the very least.
Could be a good tag on their posters too. "Not from round hereabouts!!" It's time this sort of…

Hebe

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 20:38:55 +1200

Thanks Wendy.It just upset my sense of fair play, which is to me one of the key things that New Zealand voters really care about.
(Note this comment may well come up as Hebe, who is my partner but techno skills are not my greatest strength – Greg)

wendyf

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 20:08:19 +1200

Thanks Greg. Very enlightening, and at least I feel I'll make some kind of informed choice.

Isabel Hitchings

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 20:04:11 +1200

Land levels have changed, as have waterways (Dudley Creek in particular) . It's a big, complex system that's been disrupted at many points.

Hebe

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 19:53:53 +1200

Is this about land levels having dropped Isabel?

Isabel Hitchings

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 19:39:22 +1200

Papanui-Shirley ward in Christchurch – 2/7 council and 2/16 community board candidates are from out of area. Not bad. Pity they're such an uninspiring bunch.

We need good local representation so badly here. The extent of earthquake damage to our area has only become apparent to residents since the June…

caycos

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 19:07:01 +1200

I'm in Wellington's Southern ward – 6 out of 7 live locally which is good, and a few of them make a point of having lived here for years. The only one who doesn't is the Green candidate..

Julian Melville

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 17:48:40 +1200

Is there a site around which has more information? There's virtually nothing about most of the people who are standing here (Kaipatiki, North Shore). It looks like it defaults to saying a candidate doesn't live locally if they haven't given information.

Lilith __

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 17:48:40 +1200

Throughout the city community groups and not-for-profits staff are buggered from overwork and burn-out. The poor struggle to meet horrific rents, while the middle classes in the firing line of the quakes are giving shrinks new benchmarks for sedation thresholds before they chill. People, me included, get inexplicable viral infections…

Howard Edwards

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 17:47:14 +1200

Hmmmmm .... 0 out of 2 for the Rodney ward. Looks like my local body rep will join my MP (the hon. John Key) as living out of my area.

I'm waiting for Kim Dotcom to be eligible to stand for election!

Chris Miller

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 17:36:10 +1200

Personally if I'd recently moved I'd probably put something like "former resident of x years" in my mini bio thingie. People who've been heavily involved in the community usually list the groups/boards/etc they've been members of, it's the same thing, shows your local cred. I tend to assume people who…

Rich of Observationz

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 17:16:49 +1200

City wards aren't all that big. I've moved across two ward boundaries in the five years I've lived in Wellington. It must be a bit hard (especially if one is a tenant) if an attempted political career glues one to a particular postcode indefinitely. Then you've got the fact the…

Chris Miller

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 17:13:31 +1200

Hell, I probably know more of what's going on than some of them, and I had to get out three months ago after working for the Red Cross off and on (mostly on) for two years, commuting from '"nice" St Martins'. No word yet on when I'll stop referring to…

Jean Hughes

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 17:13:13 +1200

OMG – thank you for this Greg – The results for my local area are very surprising – 11/14 Local Board Candidates; 5/7 Local Ward candidates; 6/17 Mayor candidates and 15/19 Health Board candidates do NOT live in the areas they are contesting. It will shape my vote especially for…

jack.henderson

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 17:11:40 +1200

I suppose it depends on where you are. In West Auckland the boundaries were redrawn on the advent of the Supercity in an apparently irrational or at least unsympathetic way, the upshot being that the most likely three Council candidates, though all clearly Westies having lived in the area for…

Public Address

Mon, 09 Sept 2013 17:11:40 +1200

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