Dagwood wrote: Given this, Panuku & AT's track record and Goff's increased majority in the last election it looks like it's goodbye to the sort of Auckland I grew up in.
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Kevin.S wrote: Just to put Goff's "landslide" victory in context -less than 15% of voters voted for him, hardly a resounding success. A lack of credible alternatives put most people off voting -did you read the details of the people who stood. Most of them were joke candidates, some deliberately so and some not. |
Dagwood wrote: However I watched a newbie called Craig Lord have a go. He put a lot of energy into his campaign and some of his ideas seemed to have merit and he appeared to be there for the right reasons. It was sad watching the media decide it was a 2 horse race and cover the election on that basis. Because of that he never stood a chance and did well to get 30,000 votes. Because of this and the level of voter apathy, Auckland has got the the leadership it has. As a result we can expect Panuku and AT to march on as they have been. |
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