Blue Green cash for copy site, The Spinoff, fresh from defending their clients at Bravo with a fawning apologist piece on rich women being racist and their attempt to justify cultural appropriation for their clients at Disney have decided that the Auckland Mayoralty race needs more white voices.
I think that’s the last bloody thing we need.
Sure the NZ Herald leaving Chloe Swarbrick out shows the usual baby boomer mentality we’ve all come to loath and hate, but what this debate actually needs is a hell of a lot more brown perspective.
Auckland is the largest Pacifica and Maori Urban city in the world, yet their voices, their aspirations and their reality is rarely ever listened to.
On Monday 26th at 10am, Willie Jackson will host the first ever South Auckland Mayoralty Debate live on Waatea and live streamed on Waateanews.com and at 7pm that night AUSA and TDB are teaming up to host the ‘anti-debate’ where all Mayoral Candidates who have been denied any coverage will be given the chance to put their policies across to you the voter.
Here is what the people of South Auckland are asking…
Until people begin to ask of media outlets ‘who’s paying the bills and why’ – they will happily go along for the BS ride.
People need to be informed and educated about the importance of local body elections and also about what really goes on. So more needs to be taught at school, as otherwise people do not even know what it is all about.
Seeing how little the two Maori men in the second video know about the candidates and judging them only by looking at the photos, that shows us that there is a strong disconnect.
How can people vote when they do not even know the candidates and what they stand for, or say, what they claim they stand for.
The MSM have also done a dismal job, as they seem to focus only on the high profile leading candidates for the job as Mayor. Who bothers informing voters about the true state of affairs, and about what forces control things from behind the scenes, I ask?
The structure of Auckland Council and the power of its CCOs, and the influence coming from the Committee for Auckland, made up largely by medium to large business representatives, that also needs to be informed about.
http://www.committeeforauckland.co.nz/about/strategy
“The Defining Role of the Committee
We work to accelerate urban initiatives for Auckland to become a leading place – that offers a vibrant future for young people which attracts talent and creativity an economically dynamic region a quality, well-designed place a region of diverse and connected Aucklanders with broad, visionary leadership and a common sense of purpose.”
Behind the nice slogans, it is ultimately all about economic growth and more business, so that the vested business interest holding parties can generate more turnover, more profits and more market share.
http://www.committeeforauckland.co.nz/membership/members
http://www.committeeforauckland.co.nz/membership/membership-categories-benefits
Council collaborates with vested interest holding business, to grow the population and economy, and workers are there as the wheels in the system, and Aucklanders are meant to simply work, earn their spend as consumers and settle for very basic needs.
The predictable outcome will be more costs (spend for infrastructure and other development, paid for by user pays fees, higher rates and more debt that the Aucklanders will have to pay back with higher interest over future decades). In return they will get “affordable” homes only if they settle for small apartments and town houses, often without any garden, shared grounds, and otherwise the city will be affordable only for privileged professionals, that is in central suburbs.
So who would get excited about voting when the candidates are mostly serving the status quo and vested interest parties? It is a bit late to change things for this local body election, as those who are not yet informed will hardly learn enough about what really goes on in the remaining few days.
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