Looks like an interesting fight developing.
Leo Molloy shows some fighting spirit.
Efeso Collins has shown he loves spending other peoples money.
What about the rest?
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Looks like an interesting fight developing.
Leo Molloy shows some fighting spirit.
Efeso Collins has shown he loves spending other peoples money.
What about the rest?
I don't know him, but he's right about Auckland being run by soft-cocks. And not just Auckland.
The council needs a good shake up. Molloy the only likely candidate to be able to achieve that. I don't particularly like him but the best of a bad bunch.
Molly has my vote. How much worse can things get?
The contra Efeso vote is split between too many candidates, so if they don't want him to slip in, then one will have to withdraw and endorse one of the others.
Otherwise, expect a Labour style spend up, with no guilt from Efeso.
Leo's great mates with Destiny Church's Brian & Hannah Tamaki & their goons, the ones who repeatedly throw contempt at the law & their fellow Auckland citizens, inflict major disruption on everything from school boy cricket in the Domain, to Aucklander's using the motorways, paralyse the city. In fact he's even done joint videos with them promoting their wacko ideas.
Apart from that, bragging about shagging his teacher's wife etc. What a plonker.
Yeah, things could get a lot worse!
Some of the candidates gave opinion today on Q & A, re relocation of Port.
Of all the miles of Aucklands coastline, you would have to wonder why it's just the port area they want to redevelop, at great cost.
If they had just one pimple, would they let it define their entire body?
Leo has pulled out.
Who will his supporters back now?
Oh, it looks like I can answer my own Question,
Adult entertainer Lisa Lewis has entered the race, black stockings and all, with the slogan, 'Lets erect Auckland together.'
That may make Efeso stand to attention...
Lisa has busted her way in, to take on some stiff opposition.
Yeah, but what will her rates be like and how fast can she achieve a surplus for those she is paid by as mayor.
Lisa may appoint Sam Uffindell as her campaign manager, because he just gets down to business, wont be bullied, doesn't beat about the bush, or get his knickers in a twist, while being hung out to dry.
Whjat the he!! is the C & R doing in the Auckland mayoral elections with their canditate, please get rid of her and let W Brown ( Brownie ) get on with the job that needs doing, as much as I think that he is on the wrong track with the POA the rest of his campaign in spot on, go Brownie !!
The Ngati Whatua room is in for another rude awakening,
TV crews are due to film a re enactment of Len Brown's infamous deeds, on location.
Lights, sounds, cameras, action!
Will the artifacts and spirits be able to handle another steamy interracial colonial invasion?
Will Lisa Lewis be called upon for 'technical assistance '?
All l know is that Len has doubled his Viagra order!
Seriously though, the story is in the entertainment section of NZ Herald.
At $2.6M budget, someone wants the story told.
Knowing the arrogance of Len, he will audition to play himself.
Whether he can rise to the occasion, is another story.
Did I hear right that Viv Beck has pulled out of the mayoral elections, if correct Brownie can get on and do the job which he says that he is capable of doing, sorting out Auckland after the mess that the last two Labour backed mayors have done.
If he can do this then he should be a sitter to sort out Wellington the mess that the labour govt is also creating and will leave N Z with years of head aches !
Yep, Viv is no longer available to Auckland's beck and call.
You heard right - good for Brown I think.
As to whether Brown can get the job done with just his 1 vote - remains to be seen.
The Mayor isn't the boss like running a company and he lost in Northland because he couldn't get the team to his point of view.
Interesting times ahead for Auckland.
Plus Viv is still on the voting papers, so how many votes will she get that could have/may have gone to WB
BTW there are tows browns contesting! Wonder how many he will get in eror!
The dust has settled, and Wayne Brown has emerged victorious.
Interesting to note he was on the Tarawhiti Health Board, and Labour Health Minister Annette King recruited him to head Auckland's Health Board.
He was very annoyed with her when it was discovered legislation prevented serving on two.
Seems both TV1 & 3 news are stalking Wayne Brown.
They don't seem to accept the kindly gent wishes to have a weekend in peace.
He has probably gone surfing with Hartley Atkinson.
Hold the phone.
WB is getting the telcos on the job to fix the black spots in Aucklands mobile phone network.
Who expected him to do that?
Versatile bloke that Brownie.
Detective John Hughes was known as the fixer, but not in the same league as WB.
Mayoress in waiting, Lisa Lewis kept John Palino honest, just 22 votes behind.
WB will be reassured to know she is there to take his baton should the need arise.
Beware Aucklanders, especially if you have a Pohutukawa on your section or nearby.
Zane Wedding wants them all preserved, just because he says in the old days Maori used to put dead humans amongst the branches,and let them rot down into the roots.
Eco active sort of a chap that Zane.
Tree council say that Auckland has 18% tree cover, but should be 30%.
Think about what that means to your property if you have trees.
Cut them down quick if they are a shade or view nuisance, or you may be stuck with them.
Even Auckland’s tree cover goals are unambitious compared to Sydney’s.
London has 21% tree cover and the aim is to increase that. Things seem to happen without long-term planning in Auckland. You’ll have to hope the felled pohutukawa are not helping to secure a cliff or bank or helping with drainage…or that you end with new infill building as the new view. Auckland and the developers there have been very short sighted with respect to preserving green spaces and mature trees.
https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do...nopy-cover-map
London urban tree canopy
https://urbantreecover.org/location/london/
New York City has 24% tree cover.
https://www.milliontreesnyc.org/html...st_facts.shtml
Sydney had 19% tree cover in 2011 with aims to increase it to 40%
https://greatercities.au/central-cit...nopy-cover-and
[QUOTE=Bjauck;980713]Even Auckland’s tree cover goals are unambitious compared to Sydney’s.
London has 21% tree cover and the aim is to increase that. Things seem to happen without long-term planning in Auckland. You’ll have to hope the felled pohutukawa are not helping to secure a cliff or bank or helping with drainage…or that you end with new infill building as the new view. Auckland and the developers there have been very short sighted with respect to preserving green spaces and mature trees.
https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do...nopy-cover-map
London urban tree canopy
https://urbantreecover.org/location/london/
New York City has 24% tree cover.
https://www.milliontreesnyc.org/html...st_facts.shtml
Sydney had 19% tree cover in 2011 with aims to increase it to 40%
[URL]https://greatercities.au/central-city-district-plan/sustainability/city-its-.]
End of Bjauck quote.
I accept your post in good faith, but like most stats, if you drill down, can come up with a different impression.
London 5701 people per sq km.
New York 11239
Sydney 8040
Auckland 1210
Conclusion.
If you want to hug a tree without competition, Auckland is the undisputed world champion!
That's at current levels, never mind 30%.
Time to branch out and do something else Zane, cos you're barking up the wrong tree!
No wonder van Goff jumped in his van and took off.
Left a $270M budget hole for WB to patch up.
That's on top of the yet to be disclosed CRL cost blowout.
Who's ready for a double digit rate rise?
On ya bikes Aucklanders.
No more room for ya Remuera tractors!
How much longer before WB tries to put a bulldozer through Port of Auckland's red fence?
Hey Wayne, just cos POA is the gateway to Auckland, there's no need to take offence!
Poor Aucklanders must be getting a heck of fright with all the activity .. doors being kicked in
and high level desks and tables being sent out the top floor windows
Just goes to show that both Lenny and Goff must have just been in it for the free junket a nap and not to
create too many waves / changes along the way :)
What were their final farewell handshakes worth courtesy of the generous Auckland Ratepayers at large ? :)
Everyone should take special caution these holidays .. a exodus of shell shocked, overly confused
and about to be excessively rerated (upwards) Aucklanders are about to be released
en masse on the rest of the country .. Please go gentle with them folks - they may be fragile :)
Any water under the bridge for a Ports of Auckland float?
Beware if you are part of the orange road cone brigade.
You may have to find a new witches hat to wear.
Brownies on the case, looking to trim a bit of fat.
WB is living up to the adage, Any Port in a storm.
Auckland Airport in this case.
May sell council stake to save $88M a year off rates bill, and knock off the $300M current blowout.
Will it fly?
Ex Engineer Brown is on the tools, tightening the screws,
Before he washes out, will he call in Shadbolt's nut to help tighten things up?
For those who missed the action first time round, there is an action replay of Len Brown and Bevan Chuang on Tuesday 9th, 9pm TV2.
Princess of Chaos.
Oops. 6th, not 9th.
Remains to be seen, but a few will test their ventilation systems when they get the final bill for the CRL.
Let that airport fly away Brownie.
It's not part of your core business.
Anyone considering the future of POA. and relocation proposals, should read The Wharves of Whanganui by Bruce Attwell, available through library service if you don't want to buy a copy.
An interesting read in its own right, but more relevant for Auckland, it is a blueprint of how the success and demise of a port has a major impact on the commercial success of a town/ city.
Doesn't look like cafes and restaurants which suck disposable income out of the economy, can even faintly replicate the loss of a port.
Wanganuis silting has relevance to the Manakau option also.
An irony that could be pointed out is how the Railways cut rates to ruin coastal shipping, and the negative impact on the port of Whangarei.
Yet now rail is seen as a boost for Marsden.
You tell them, Mayor Brown!
High time someone tells the clowns at Ports of Auckland who's really in charge - the ratepayers, not the bunch of idiots feasting on inefficiencies and incompetence at the port.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...L5NZYD6QS5NKU/
That would include working with central government to plan for consolidating port operations, and the return of waterfront space “to the people of Auckland” in phases from 2024 to 2039, he said.
“Auckland Council, as shareholder, will decide the future of Auckland’s waterfront space, not the port company.”
I would be careful as Mayor Brown - parliamentary supremacy means Labour actually has a lot of power to intervene, esp with a single party majority.
Lucky Aucklanders, if that were to happen, a barrel load of expensive to feed monkeys
could get sent down the road, as the load gets lightened, provided no even more stupid
schemes get piled back on the plate ;)
The Wellington resident halfwits probably also have a fairly well practiced habit of tossing more
half baked schemes into the lap of Local Govt as soon as they see a space & convenient opportunity :)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/help-m...KHTGYM2HJIHBU/
Help!’ - Mayor Wayne Brown’s ‘moaning’ first email to Auckland Council CEO covering beer, balance sheets and 400 jobs
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over a list of procedural inadequacies - including financial reports “with no numbers”, an inability to stock a beer fridge, and advertising 400 jobs when managerial cuts “are more than on the cards”.
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First up on Brown’s list of complaints is an alleged lack of detail and numbers in the council financial reports he’s received in his first 11 days in the top job.
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“Simple things like getting paper copies of recent council activities just don’t happen. So far I have received copies of only two meeting papers,” Brown writes.
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The new mayor references “an excruciating 110-page paper on BIDs that discussed things that are not even council’s business”.
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“No numbers at all in the whole meeting papers!” Brown writes, as well as: “Help! The financial briefing we got was very underwhelming. No P&L, no balance sheets.”
NZ needs more Wayne Brown's up and down the country to kick and drag our Local Bodies into shape from the tardy, Easy large revenue gathering, lazy, bureaucratic, inefficient holiday havens which many show grave signs of being, after decades and decades of bureaucratic rot ;)
Everyone is paying dearly for these slow-moving parasitic inefficient Local Govt empires, are they not ?
Good grief - Brown & Central Govt - WTF are the rather handy things referred to in the article under ? ;)
Surely at least a few of the Central & Regional Govt / Council twits onboard have heard of them ? :)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/we-can...BWDNZCMY2SWFU/
Auckland floods: Small business claims offer to supply sandbags for council ignored
Unfortunately Wayne Brown is not the man for an emergency - he is too used to working on his own away from the limelight.
Maybe his deputy could handle things for him while he plays tennis (away from the drongo journalists (as he called them)).
I tend to agree with him on the "drongo journalists" comment. I like it that he would say something like that. Kudos to him.
No need to play the media game, they are becoming more irrelevant by the day.
He was elected to be Mayor to go and fix up Goofs problems. Only been in the job a few months, gotta give him some time.
Unfortunately by not fronting to media, he isn't fronting the people either - he seems to treat all of them with equal disdain.
Wayne knows best and doesn't need anyone else (except in an emergency when he follows the advice (he says) to the letter and it is wrong).
Unfortunately, emergencies don't give people time and he doesn't seem to want to learn at all - just blames others.
But when he had a new problem he was unable to respond appropriately. He was unable to respond to what was happening Now. I think he is more concerned about trying to resurrect the past, the way things used to be in the good old days, when councillors made all the decisions rather than having consultants make more decisions now. The world has changed, it has become more complex and he needs to accept that reality. He needs to look at what is happening now and focus on the future not the past. The past has passed.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wayne-browns-text-to-tennis-mates-cant-play-because-have-to-deal-with-media-drongos-over-the-flooding/6UI5RZNTRJC5NF67SWMIRL2HUI/
AUT journalism senior lecturer Dr Greg Treadwell said media were geared to meet community needs with information at times of crisis while also having a role as a watchdog which could be challenging for those leading a response.
“I think anybody who is going to lead us through a disaster needs to be able to relate to the media.”
University of Canterbury journalism senior lecturer Dr Tara Ross said the media’s role in a crisis was to communicate information to its communities but also to reflect those communities’ experiences back to those leading the response.
“It would appear Wayne Brown has forgotten that’s an important role for the media to advocate on behalf of their communities. It’s an important part of leadership to understand the role of the media.
A rational perspective on the media pile-on at Wayne Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3oXo7bILVU
Labourites and the media who were already grumpy with Brown were happy to stoke people's stress in a situation that was developing rapidly. I personally picked up on what seemed a pre-emptive strike from Blue Skies on this forum on Friday night. It started to feel like an orchestrated campaign to make political capital out of a situation that was still evolving. Ridiculous calls for Brown to resign etc.
Using a situation to feed on a city's stress is about as low as it gets. There will be plenty of time afterwards to review, but in the height of the crisis you contribute, not undermine.
Did anyone pick up on new Minister for Auckland Michael Woods comments about how imPortant Auckland is with a population of 1.7M and more imPortantly, how imPortant the Port is?
I perceive he chose his words deliberately, and in his view the Port is staying right where it is now.
If you're not in Auckland it's possibly hard to understand the scale of this disaster.
There were communities of traumatised families with young children in whole neighbourhoods South Auckland & out in West Auckland whose homes & streets were chest high in water.
They had no idea where to go, what to do to get some shelter in the storm, & couldn't get any advice.
The emergency phone lines were overloaded & for hours there was just silence from the Mayor & his office.
I don't think you get it, this isn't about the delay in issuing the State of Emergency, it was about the mayor using the media & social media to let people know where they could go to get shelter, get dry, get their children out of the torrential rain, something to eat, what areas were underwater, which main routes were impassable, which Marae & Churches had opened their doors, how the 40,000 people at Mt Smart could get back home in the storm, what public transport was operating & what wasn't & so on.
There was no advice, no information, no leadership, just a vacuum so it was chaos.
And now he's blaming everyone else.
He's just yet another over-confident white male of very average capabilities whose self belief propelled him to the top, being tall helps him too though its totally irrelevant.
I've seen it so many times, very average types, men with no self doubt, full of their own hubris, rewarded with senior positions over much better qualified people, often women.
So far, this summary is quite believable and understandable. I think you're right accentuating the appalling failures of Browns leadership. Clearly Mr Fixit hasn't considered how important public communications is, or taking the media on the journey, or even whether he has the ability to do it. It appears that he hasn't.
But this summary of yours in conclusion is disappointing, it out's you as an angry female that blames poor performance by the Mayor on his sex and age. Whether you like the guy or not, this is a poor and sad way of expressing it.
As a usually well considered and reasonable, albeit hard-left biased person, perhaps you could find a better way of expressing your upset about the Auckland Mayor's performance?
Oh my, now the race and gender cards to boot! It's becoming a woke feeding frenzy! As well as racist and sexist and bigoted.
A fast moving natural disaster where isolated pockets are badly affected as darkness falls will never have a perfect response. I don't know whether Brown got it right or whether systems performed badly. I do know this politically motivated pile-on didn't help alleviate anything one jot. But it did stoke people's stress caused by a weather event to a focal point for anger. That's incredibly cynical.
Actually Im a retired man with both son & daughters & over the years like many who have worked in large organisations, watched highly competent women colleagues passed over for promotion by entitled, highly confident but incompetent men.
It's a thing, & you ask any highly qualified women who has had a successful career & they will tell you, how much harder a women has to work to be on the same footing as a male colleague.
I want my daughters to have the same opportunities as my son, but I know all things being equal, he has an immediate head start simply being a male.
Confidence is often confused with leadership potential and competency, when its not.
Generally men lack the levels of self doubt women have, hence at least partially a reason why we have so many men in positions of power compared to women.
It's well researched, leaderless groups have a natural tendency to elect self-centered, over-confident, narcissistic individuals as leaders & these types are much more usually men than women.
It was interesting to watch Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson who is obviously more capable for the role, guiding Mayor Wayne Brown away from inflicting further self damage at a recent media standup.
I remember at uni may years ago, smart women friends practically mentoring very average male friends through their exams. Some of the guys were supremely self-confident & entitled which helped propel them to highly successful careers, whereas the women who were actually more capable had a much more difficult road.
So Im just seeing this disaster showing Wayne Brown as a man who is obviously out of his depth in what is one of the most important leadership roles in the country.
And like many wondering how on earth did he get elected
Could the previous run of Mayoral talent been a reason ? :)
Was "How would you deal with a Crisis" an Electioneering Policy of any one of the candidates .. or anywhere ?
How long has he been in the job ?
Of course it's usual to delegate some of larger tasks out to deputies and rest of the supporting crew ?
You would have seen that in 'Larger Organisations' surely - ?
Unfortunately Wayne Brown is trying to rewrite the job and it doesn't include fronting to the media if he can at all help it.
Doesn't front to the people either.
An interesting insight to the man (premium)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wayne-...HTBXWXE5BIMQY/
Sounding Trumpish
“I am the mayor for three years. You can’t do anything about that,” he said. “No one else in New Zealand is going to get 180,000 votes. That was my mandate.
“Last month a guy in Hamilton got into Parliament with 6000 votes (referring to National’s Tama Potaka in the Hamilton West byelection). I got 30 votes for every one of those.”
It's all about him
There’s the reflex to self-justify and defend himself. There’s the prickly relationship with the media, the biggest vote count claims and then while criticising Auckland Transport he told the Herald he “could have done better” if he was doing their job.
He complained that the media didn't show him out and about in the last day or 2 (but showed a few All Blacks) when
- he didn't tell them where he was going
- he calls them drongoes
- he hides from them most of the time
What does he expect?
Isnt it amazing that because the Civil Defence didnt do their job properly that W B gets a blame/hammering, only the lefty maggots cannot see this !!!!
Excellent post Blue Skies and there is research to show this happens. Women have been saying this for years and get ignored so it is great to see a man saying it. There are double standards too, when a woman leader makes a mistake she is more likely to be out of the job, whereas with men it more likely to be excused ..... boys will be boys etc. And what I've seen with Wayne Brown is give the poor guy a chance, give him time. Unconscious bias around gender in employment is very strong.
Wayne Brown possibly felt, just like he did in July 2007, that a state of emergency “just wasn’t necessary”.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131114283/a-disaster-experts-experience-of-a-disastrous-friday-night-in-auckland
In Northland I (Nick Rogers) attended the major flooding disaster in February 1999. A state of emergency was declared by the Mayor, Yvonne Sharp.
A major landslip and flood disaster occurred again in Northland in July 2007, and again Mayor Sharp declared a state of emergency.
A week later Wayne Brown declared he was standing for Mayor of the Far North and fired his first shot at Sharp, reportedly saying she was wrong to declare a state of emergency following the floods of the week before.
Brown reportedly said that there was no need for a state of emergency to be called. “The place had already been through one set of floods back in March and everyone seemed a lot better prepared for this event, so I can’t see why we needed to have a state of emergency. It just wasn’t necessary”.
I attended both disasters and Yvonne Sharp was correct in declaring the state of emergency in July 2007.
Nick Rogers is obviously a drongo if he has attended so many natural disasters and they keep happening.
Once a drongo, always a drongo.
Maybe some bureaucrats should be resigning :
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/30079...od-waters-rose
For those who have been defending Wayne Brown - he has finally apologised for his inaction and invisibility.
Also apologised that his 'drongo' comment was made public (he needs to look at his friends for that one).
Have the twits at Auckland Emergency Management apologised for leaving the Mayor and all his staff of their internal email comms ? No I didn't think so. Why is the media and the Labourites on here not calling for their resignation ? Doesn't suit the anti democratic agenda ?
Not surprising that you think it is OK for some useless and faceless bureaucrats to leave the Mayor and staff of their emails about an emergency situation.
Here is a good read for those that have "premium" access to the Herald https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...GQSN7TCYSZHXM/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckla...FSUTWXGBEJAQY/
Auckland floods: Bus drivers told not to go through floodwaters
Message from up top at AT passed down:
"NO SWIM BUS - Too many stuffed buses from swimming lessons last time .. make the suckers
walk or swim instead" :)
Further announcement due next week - likely "bring motorised skateboard and surfboard
as back up instead in case something happen" ..
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mayor-...KSF57MH3PRTEQ/
Journo Browns Off Mayor
Was the Journo a slow learner or he just spun off the mark too fast ? :)
Efeso Collins now having a go with the Greens, number 12 on the list.
Hey Brownie, do you and ya mates still think it's a good idea to shift the port to Northland?
6 months to clear a slip on the rail line, till the next one.
Over $288M for the spur to Northport, just so you can plonk some multi storey apartments in the way of our panorama over the imported cars.
Spending money we don't have to replace what we've already got?
Has a new large Mayoral rug been included in the Budget .. or next year ? ;)
Can't have things skidding around the Chambers in an uncontrolled fashion ..
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...-waters-change
Auckland Council loses $381m cash payout in Three Waters change
Now that might Brown someone off immensely :)
At least Auckland Buses can still be used as submersibles, whereas down in Crapital
full of broken leaking water mains and where 100% of street lights were found to be a Safety risk,
their buses can can only manage to get repeatedly stuck up narrow streets without excuse,
and ferries at times are found incapable of anything reliable .. so no prizes on where the
lost payout axe has been wielded from ;)
Auckland's chance for revenge on the hapless Wellington Beehive halfwits comes in October :)
Sounds like someone is pretty "Browned Off" ;)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131...tied-for-weeks
Fed-up Auckland ratepayer dumps rubbish at council building after her bins aren't emptied for weeks
A special delivery for the mayoral office next time ? ;)