Local body elections and Featured
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Helene – even the parking wardens say time’s up
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- After being first elected before the Beehive was finished, before God Defend New Zealand was even officially our second anthem, before the Erebus disaster and even before carless days, Helene Ritchie is once again grabbing headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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Could Young be caught offside in sports funding debate?
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- Sports funding for teams such as the Hurricanes, Lions, Phoenix, Pulse and Saints could shape as a key battleground this campaign.
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Hutt City Councillor calls out budget ‘trickery’
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- It wouldn’t hurt a few of Wellington’s supposedly opposition Councillors to take a leaf out of Wainuiomata Ward, Hutt City Councillor, Campbell Barry’s book and actually put a spotlight on Council finances.
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Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Coughlan to make a run from Right-Field?
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- While Onslow-Western Councillor, Jo Coughlan, has taken a somewhat lower profile this term, we have heard that she is taking soundings on whether or not to make a run for Mayor.
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Sarah Free opens a can of worms
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- Island Bay’s Green Eastern Ward battler, Sarah Free, may not have attracted a whole heap of attention in the last term – but she knows how to build a mean worm farm. Green credentials: TICK! Bottled worm piss: TICK!
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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New ways to waste money – it’s the #wadebrownwccway
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- We got a little bored with the Island Bay cycleway debacle – and judging by the Mayor’s lack of support in the media Celia Wade-Bicycle is also giving her troubled Island Bay project a wide berth.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Council prioritises Chinese Garden and Cycleway over Hospital Water Supply
- WCC Watch
- Capital and Coast DHB Board Member and Porirua Mayor, Nick Leggett and Southern Ward Councillor, Paul Eagle, have highlighted a bizarre decision by Council to refuse to fund the emergency water reservoir that serves the Hospital.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Cycleway Shambles the hot summer BBQ topic
- WCC Watch
- We are back for 2016 and if there was one issue that kept getting brought up around BBQs across the Capital this summer, it was the Mayoral Cycleway Omni-shambles.
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Golf Club Hits Back
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- A recent post by northernwccwatch provoked quick responses pooh-pooh’ing everything about it.
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Is it time to draft Leggett?
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- TV3’s Duncan Garner has come out and slammed Mayor, Celia Wade-Brown, saying Wellington needs new leadership.
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Mayor (inadvertently) highlights land for social housing
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- In one of those quirks of history many New Zealand councils established golf courses to keep the people active and despite Government efforts being a little more sophisticated these days, Wellington ratepayers still own a course at Berhampore.
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Berhampore, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Dom Post on Wade-Brown v Young v Lester
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- Today’s Dom Post had a series of articles on the upcoming Mayoral race – below is the editorial which gives a good overview of the campaign.
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What more can a small boy do? Peck not standing
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- As we mentioned in the last few weeks, Labour members had been underwhelmed by Lambton Ward Councillor, Mark Peck, and that he was likely to see his candidacy for the Party challenged.
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Biggest caucus ever, but it still isn’t easy being Green
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- The Greens have dominated this term with the Mayor settling into her role further, made easier by having a whole caucus of Greens.
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Living Wage turns into Lavery v Wade-Lester
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- Roll up, roll up for the latest Wellington City Council circus.
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Labour go looking for candidates… Clock ticking for Lester
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- Things are really starting to get underway with Labour sending a broadcast message out to all and sundry to try and unearth new candidates for the Wellington local body elections next year.
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A-wim-o-way-Wade-Brown channels Peg Bundy and lashes Seven Sharp
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- Not content with helmet hair for Hillary and onesies for the papers, the Mayor of our Capital city, Celia Wade-Faux-pas decided to go for a Jungle Book/Peg Bundy look as she talked to the nation on Seven Sharp when it covered the $54 million Panda Palace.
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A look at Labour pains on Labour Day
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- The Red Cossacks are gearing up for war in 2016 – desperately trying to move on from their massacre at the last local council elections in 2013 (after suffering more than just the ‘one night stand’ treatment from their civil union partner, the Greens).
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On your Wade-Bike – Mayor begins succession planning…
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- The worst-kept secret in Wellington is out of the bag: The Mayor won’t be running for re-election in Wellington’s local body elections next October.
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WCC might think they’re GC’s but we expect more
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- Toyota created ripples a few years back by making the word ‘bugger’ parlance… but I doubt in their wildest dreams the creative team behind that would have ever expected to see a City Council attempting to normalise the C word.
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Wade-Lester’s Panda Fantasy starts giant meme
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- You know election year is approaching when memes start filling the inbox… this one popped up earlier. Not sure who is behind this little gem with the YouTube account looking to have been set up this week – but pretty entertaining nonetheless!
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Key says Capital is dying, Bronagh says let them pat Pandas!
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- On One News tonight, Prime Minister Key showed off Bronagh’s Panda seflie and it seems this is where the fantasy started.
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Eagle vs Panda
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- Councillor Paul Eagle has called out Justin Wade-Lester’s business plan for pandas as a “fantasy”.
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A look behind the scenes of Capital 150
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- The marketing and communications department of WCC have provided a look behind the work they did on the Capital 150 campaign.
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Eagle disgraces himself – saves wall, saves Pannett
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- Great news for Island Bay with confirmation that the sea wall will be rebuilt.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Pannett puts career on line over sea wall
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- In the Wellingtonian last week, Lambton ward councillor, Iona Pannett, said she would resign if the Island Bay sea wall was not rebuilt.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Keep Kate
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- There is a petition underway to lobby NZTA to keep the ‘Kate Shepherd’ green pedestrian lights at the crossings near Parliament – you can sign it here.
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Mind the gap: WCC PR team bigger than Boris’s
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- WCC’s press and media operation operation is something of a relentless beast these days, with #TheWellingtonWay being shovelled down our throats at great expense across a variety of media.
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Celia giving Lester a leg up?
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- WCC Watch has woken from its slumber with the stirrings of the 2016 Mayoral campaign evident.
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Onesie-Wearer in Chief
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- Not content with championing helmet hair to greet the US Secretary of State, the Mayor has once again dumped the Chains in favour of her own tastes… Shortly after we woke from our slumber over the weekend – this photo, tweeted by the Mayor (no, not her opponents!), was brought to our attention – Celia doing her best for Wellington Free Ambulance’s ‘Onesie Day’.
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