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Spoilers, guy same age as Trump gets reelected to mayoralty of NZs largest city. Ex Labour leader is new mayor of Wellington.
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The nation gets dumber and dumber as the brain drain accelerates.
We got an ex national MP for our mayor. So excited…
Now we’re getting double austerity, local and national level
It hasn’t been announced in the link, but apparently Wayne Guppy has lost to Perri Zee in upper hutt.
Which I wasn’t expecting at all.
It’s there, if you follow the trail down the Upper Hutt links:
Just reading up on his Wikipedia page, someone in Upper Hutt is quick off the trigger with the results 😆
This bit was interesting:
Guppy diverted money from Three Waters funding to pay for floodlights for the rugby club which he is president of. He was accused of a “conflict of interest”.[16]
So, it sounds like we’re in a similar situation to Wellington with a huge backlog of infrastructure investment. Lovely.
Also, this guy apparently had Graham Bloxham of Wellington Live running his social media for a while, which seems like a shocking lack of judgement.
