Auckland Mayoralty Election 2022

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Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown defiant on selling airport shares



Wonder who will be more "browned off" out of this ?


So all Waste Management Operators can't have wanted the assignment to take away the Large
Auckland Deficit that Wayne & his Council mates have dug up ?

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Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown short of votes to sell Auckland Airport shares


Poor Wayne might still discover he's stuck firmly on the tarmac

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Helicopters face the chop from Auckland Airport


Wasn't the Mayor browned off on the Airport and wanting to get shot of the stake in the outfit ?

Now he's playing a 'Browned Off' tune on loss of service throwing a "Very disappointed" Chop in the ring

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Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown condemns ‘Labour MPs in waiting’ for not supporting the sale of airport shares and forcing up rates


"It's all Labour's fault ... "


A heap of bigger heavier bricks needed to throw at them - Wayne .. it's election year and they're
all suffering selective hearing disorder in the chaos of near end of a failed Labour reign of stupidity
and countrywide destruction


100 points and three bonus throws if you hit the wide smiling Chippie Clown face squarely in the chops

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Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown condemns ‘Labour MPs in waiting’ for not supporting the sale of airport shares and forcing up rates


"It's all Labour's fault ... "


A heap of bigger heavier bricks needed to throw at them - Wayne .. it's election year and they're
all suffering selective hearing disorder in the chaos of near end of a failed Labour reign of stupidity
and countrywide destruction


100 points and three bonus throws if you hit the wide smiling Chippie Clown face squarely in the chops

Whatsit Mahuta would make a better target and has marked her dial to assist the brick-thrower.

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Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown takes pot shots at councillors during a shambolic meeting to shore up airport share sale


Wayne gets really 'browned off' at the crew

All Media passes revoked for the session

Sale proceeds from AIA going to plug a gap .. then what ?

Start selling the Councillors off in pairs ?

Lee said it was petulant of the mayor to chastise councillors who support him and doing their best to find a way out of the budget deficit while taking on widespread opposition to the sale.

“The mayor continues to dig himself a hole of his own making,” he said.

Two councillors who do support selling the shares and will be voting for the budget are Greg Sayers, who calls it a “bandaid fix budget” to get the council out of the current hole, and Maurice Williamson, who is disappointed some of the proposed budget cuts have been reinstated but said, “that’s the horse-trading that has to be done.

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Mike Lee is about as stupid as it gets. 18% ownership of Auckland Airport does not even get the council a seat on the board. Why have a stake in an airport when you have an enormous debt? The business of the council is to provide services to ratepayers, not to curate some sort of dinky investment portfolio. Anyone suggesting such a thing should then also advocate for the council to borrow billions more to buy shares in other local companies….shares that may go up or down in value, while the interest on the borrowed money will need to be paid. Thinking logically, it doesn’t make sense. It’s not a question of ‘selling the family silver’, it’s a question of ‘why on earth do we have a bunch of shares in any given business when we are a council, a council that is in an enormous financial hole’.

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It wasn't an election promise.

If you want fiscal discipline why would you let Wayne spend a billion dollars from the sale on whatever he likes (..which he will do). At the moment he is constrained.

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It wasn't an election promise.

If you want fiscal discipline why would you let Wayne spend a billion dollars from the sale on whatever he likes... (which he will do). At the moment he is constrained.

How much is the Labour Govt throwing at Light Rail .. plus what has been thrown under the bus on other defunct and stalled projects ?

Labour's fixation with Rail should be an ode to what always eventuates with Labour Govt's .. a term or two, nothing much happens, consultants receive large pay days and presto the usual "Trainwreck" appears with things running off the rails and everyone losing confidence in all the spin, lies, nothing much happen

Even a Labour aligned Mayor of the Super City produced Sweet F A for his duration

Where is he now after that holiday siesta ?

What Auckland are facing is as much Local Govt as Central Govt's fault .. remember Labour under Clarks rule allowed these local bodies to run wild out of control with their grandiose empire building schemes ..

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The wayne brown stadium.. with a statue of wayne in bronze at the entrance.

It would be more attractive to him than being known as the wierd guy who "kept rates low" but still 7%.