Breaking news that Leo Molloy has stood down as candidate for the Auckland mayoralty.
A new Curia Poll puts Efeso Collins ahead.
Labour will breath a sigh of relief, losing Auckland a year out from the next election would be damaging.
Efeso is likely to win now, Viv Beck won’t benefit from Leo supporters.
Leo’s interview with Guy Williams will be the funniest political interview in NZ history.
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Sad, i doubt the Auckland council elections will attract 30% of the eligible vote now.
Would Tuffindel beat him with a club if he were under 18?
I don’t live in Auckland just watching from afar. Nothing against Efeso but he’s tainted by going with Labour and agreeing to support their policies if he gets in. Why can’t LG candidates be independent? Manipulation and control knows no bounds. Leo had a good shot, I wonder why he has pulled out, really?
“Leo had a good shot, I wonder why he has pulled out, really?”
Probably a court case of some sort coming up, oh and he was tainted by being associated with National and agreeing to support their policies if he got in.
It was John Key and the pulling of the ponytail that made Leo chuck it in. It had to be John Key. What else could it be? There cannot be any other credible reason.
I assume you are talking about 3 waters which I support. You may be surprised how many people support it in spite of the noise from the vocal minority.
Agreed
Horray! best news I have heard for ages lets hope our Maori and PI whanau make and effort to vote for Efeso if they don’t they can’t moan about anything.
So people should just vote along racial lines???
Did you just say that? FFS
No you said it BG I said our people should support our Efeso the same way local council have supported their same old candidates just look at the makeup of most councils in NZ. Also we often hear Pakeha saying Maori should put their name forward yet despite this its hard to get voted in some do but no many don’t. Just look at who has controlled and been the dominant ones and what do they all have in common BG ? I know Efeso is Samoan.
If someone wants to vote along racial lines it is there democratic right.-
Did you just say you don’t want democracy?
If you don’t vote for Efeso, you ain’t brown. Apparently.
No need to swear BG keep your nickers on.
What does “covid is pa” even mean?
Sorry for the language, but I traveled through sub Saharan Africa in the the late 90s and saw the devastation that “voting along ethnic lines” caused.
Again apologies, but it winds me up those who vote purely on race, gender, ethnicity or any other ideological group with no thought of that person’s principles.
And true Gus, you can vote for whom ever you want, but it would be nice if people put some thought into it. Rather than, “wow, she has a vagina, and I have a vagina, let’s all vote for her!”
Very well put BG.
Viv and Craig will withdraw, the centre right will coalesce around Wayne, who will beat Efeso.
You read it here first.
You forgot Lisa Lewis.
Wayne Brown? an arrogant s.o.b, who ran a vendetta against PSA members and sacked many staff when FNDC Mayor. Transferred rating burden from Farming/commercial to residential sector. He also travelled on ratepayers money to “sister cities” in China and Canada to try and do mining deals in the Far North, and used inside knowledge for his personal development projects. Ignored Standing orders when chairing Auck. DHB.
If Aucklanders vote for Brown they have rocks in their heads.
Aucklanders voted for both Brown and Goff, so yeah they do have rocks in their heads.
Baby, it’s all about the money.
Since AO/NZ’s a small-population, agrarian-exports country, how does Auckland contribute again?
If bob jones is the newest billionaire and his property portfolio enabled him to be so absurdly padded by the tears, suffering and money of others then my question is … how? How, is Auckland? Why, is Auckland? The tallest buildings along Auckland’s waterfront are foreign owned bank buildings. That’s enough of a clue to set the mind to inquiring, surely.
Bob the boxer.
You really need to read this humanoids.
Wikipedia:
“Jones earned his wealth through investments in commercial property via his company Robt. Jones Holdings Ltd, and was worth $550 million according to the 2013 NBR rich list, and $600 million a year later.[6] Jones formed the short-lived libertarian New Zealand Party in 1983, just before Robert Muldoon’s snap 1984 election. Jones explicitly stated his disgust that the supposedly pro-free-enterprise New Zealand National Party had implemented socialist policies like price and wage freezes, and a top tax rate of 66%. His party acted as a spoiler, helping to deliver the government to the New Zealand Labour Party. Then the party implemented free market reforms under Finance Minister Roger Douglas (hence Rogernomics). ”
Look. I’m not necessarily singling out bob although that wouldn’t be difficult. Instead, I’m trying to illustrate that bob the billionaire and his mates are done for if Auckland goes down the shitter, which it must. Yes. That’s right. Auckland’s a dead town walking. It’s spindly little legs can no longer support its big fat arse. In fact, I’d go so far as to write that Auckland’s always been a Zombie Town feeding on the money of others, specifically and only agriculture*, and anyone wanting to be the mayor of a zombie town should know that they’ll go down with the maggot ridden carcass thanks to old maggots like Big Bad Bob The Billionaire.
* The Apple and Pear marketing board. The Meat Board. The Pork Board. The Dairy Board. The New Zealand Fruit growers Federation.
The New Zealand Fruit growers Federation was founded in 1916. Merged with New Zealand Potato and Vegetable Growers Federation in 2005 to become Horticulture New Zealand (HortNZ).
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22398004
Now you know why farmers are on the bones of their arses and YOU pay through your carefully manicured nostril holes for basic food stuffs in a country that can reportedly feed 40 million people. Garlic @ $49.00 a kg. Broccoli @ $4 a head. I could go on.
Auckland is a massive edifice to an on going swindle that’d probably fuck you up if you were to suddenly be aware of the scope of it. If you feel fucked up right now? Yay! And apologies.
Farmers? Yoo Hoo! Strike. Now. Today. Then insist upon a very public Royal Commission of Inquiry please.
Until the people on the streets, the streets you built, know just how fucked we’ve all been and not in that good way we’re all really vulnerable to being thrown under a bus by rich rats running from the woodpile. I’m thinking our lot will already be brokering deals between Chinese hyper-billionaires looking to escape with their money from the burning planet near them and our dodgy lot. Nothing would make me happier than being wrong, I might add so please? Make me happy if you can?
Ae. L. Lewis has got my vote now. More ‘entertaining’ than the others.
FFS! So what do we have to choose from now?
An old white guy. A token brownie and pair of women that are real women! (I think??)
Oh I forgot the other old, middle aged white guys.
I’m not into tokenism nor am I interested in more incompetence. So it looks like a spoilt ballot paper coming.
How is he a token brownie. Efeso lost the candidacy and the foolish labour lot put that pathetic woman in (Salesa) in instead in South Auckland. Efeso is seen by Labour as far too out-spoken about the massive problems his community have with lack of housing and poverty and all of the stuff that hits brown people first and foremost.
Foolish not to vote him in frankly.
” Nothing against Efeso but he’s tainted by going with Labour and agreeing to support their policies if he gets in ”
That means the same old approach of capitalist neo liberal medicine to the many crises that the market economy has created.
That means the same blinkers on another means well leftie candidate who just wants to do the right thing but does not have any idea that the policies he supports are the real cancer that needs to be removed.
‘Efeso is likely to win now’ you say. So he has 22%. The three right leaners had nearly 50% amongst them. Leo’s 15 will not go to Collins. You may want to revise.
Good job. Molloy is a Trump knock off and I’m glad he is out.
Efeso all the way.
Viv and Wayne are jusy empty-suit technocrats are the rest are irrelevant. Lisa Lewis just wants her share of clicks.
If any one bothered to read about Efeso Collins career, and particularly his achievements with young people suffering from the institutionalised racism known as the postcode lottery, they might actually respect him as person who truly cares about “the people”. Wayne Brown’s “fix” is insulting to native Tamaki Makaurans. The neo liberal capitalist system is in tatters, and Efeso Collins actually understands this. He may be Labour, Green and Union backed, but he has a good degree of revolutionary zeal, and an understanding of the difficults of being a big man, in a world generally controlled by bullies and other lesser evolved beings. Viv Beck is too “heart of the city”. We need a mayor for the entire Rodney Hide created monster that is Auckland, and mayor that can find some unity amongst all demographics in this most diverse city, Pasifika capital of the world. Virtue signalling perhaps, but Efeso Collins may be true to his core values. The rest are just egos with too much liquid finance. Malloy was always a joke, and it is a relief he has withdrawn, but every other candidate has a disconnection with the reality of the street also. Efeso Collins must be the next mayor, or we truly are a bunch of sleep minion hobbit lemming sheep marching ever so slowly towards the cliff. And possibly not so slowly given climate extreme events and the fact that Aotearoa may be the arc, the last waka when the rest of the planet becomes uninhabitable. So let us at least vote for a progressive person. EFESO COLLINS!
That’s depressing. More leftwing BS will slowly rot Auckland
Loser Molloy..ex bankrupt…ex mayoral candidate.
he would have been a breathe of fresh air to Auckland politics