WCC Watch / October 2015
Welcome to WCC Watch. The idea is pretty simple. Basically, the coverage of the upcoming (Sept-Oct) Wellington City Council elections are going to be sporadic at best. There are a multitude of personalities at play, some smart, bold, dynamic candidates, and some total fruit bars. I’ll be trying to cover everything I can to follow the election.
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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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