We are just seeing some of the most extraordinary tactics being used as the Boomer King attempts to ram his firesafe Airport privatisation through.
He has threatened steep cuts in arts, culture and public transport.
He is bribing huge increases in arts, culture and Bus Driver wages.
He is now censoring media from the press conference where he’s attempting this firesale!!!!!!!!!!
New Zealand’s media alliance has panned Auckland mayor Wayne Brown over a “cack-handed” attempt to cherry-pick journalists to cover a council budget announcement.
On Wednesday morning, Brown presented key points from his refreshed budget proposal to an invite-only crowd, including business leaders, former politicians and former rugby league coach Sir Graham Lowe.
Brown’s office had cherry-picked the media organisations invited to the update. Stuff, TVNZ and Newshub were not invited.
The mayor’s press secretary, Josh Van Veen said: “We invited a select few journalists from media outlets who we feel were best able to convey the mayor’s message and Stuff isn’t one of them.”
…if a Lefty Mayor was seizing a golf club and was then censoring the media there would be riots down Queen street!
Mike Hosking would be on ZB reading out molotov cocktail recipes and publicising the home address of the Mayor if this was a Lefty pulling this shit, yet the silence is deafening!
Dear Auckland, you need to get VERY angry, very quickly and now.
He is really going to try and sell our Airport!
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Lol…
Have you forgotten Martyn, about others dictating who can ask questions or who they will talk to?
Tova…Jessica…Tova. Trigger a memory?
Or Ms Ardern boycotting Hosking
Or Labour and Greens refusing to talk to Sean Plunket on The Platform
Brown is grumpy… Simon Wilson (Phil Goffs goid mate) at the Herald goes after Brown constantly just for being from the Right. As for Stuff its so far Left its run out of room at the end of the table
If you feel you’re not getting fair coverage walking away from that media organisation seems fair enough
Hosking and Plunket are jocks, they should be ignored. Those examples are completely irrelevant here and are a different discussion entirely, a discussion about right wing jocks with way too much influence spreading misinformation to the gullible and uneducated.
He is such a gutless wanker. Why is he afraid to have the media there? Like Newshub are left leaning? No one asked for charisma ( and clearly Waaaaayne doesn’t disappoint) but he should be able to state his case and actually answer a question. He’s accountable to the public ffs.
So The Disinformation Project can hold publicly funded conferences with selected media to tell them how to sell hate speech laws to the public but the mayor can’t do the same thing to sell his plan to the public?
That’s like McNulty saying we have to discuss co governance and the MSM refusing to allow any discussion because of the Pravda Fund
Happens in Russia, North Korea, Afghanistan, China etc. Handpicked to control the narrative. A dictatorship.
A good number of people defending wankers like Brown scream about council
‘assets’ and cry about democracy when it comes to three waters ( when parts are a future liability) but no problem with ditching an asset that has grown and pays a healthy dividend, and this stupid old prick not being able to answer questions. Is he scared tennis will come up or someone might ask him to grab a bucket when it starts raining?
If the media weren’t a bunch of useless arseholes they would have banded together and refused to attend Brown’s budget bullshit.
I doubt they even considered it.
This is the primary issue with the world right now, people acting like desperate rats get run rough shod by the evil tyrants.
What you say Martyn about the 90% v the 10% is bang on, and should be the central theme of every article, as the middle and poorer classes bickering about shit is the main reason we are in the shit.
NZ’s version of that wanker Donald Trump. Being a businessman does not make a public servant. His arrogance and obvious incompetence should be ringing the warning bells for Aucklanders. Welcome to assets sold, support services run down to virtually nothing, gated communities, massive increases in all crime, more fake news, and no responsibility. Aucklanders voted for the moron who is so far out of his depth it’s hilarious – unless you have to live there – good luck
Pathetic behaviour from a publicly elected official. The fact his Council media minders tow the line on his narcissistic demands of invitees only and no questions despite being paid by the ratepayer is even more appalling.
But to be honest if you were a journo would you really want to have to endure 45mins of listening to Grandpa Brown pouring his disdain over the room, droning on about how everyone before him, those currently around him and those yet to come aren’t as good as he is? Then waffling on about other inane topics that aren’t even relevant, all while barely being able to string two coherent words together in a monotone drawl that makes him sound like he’s just had a stroke.
Even when he had to eat humble pie from the public backlash about slashing Council services and Local Boards budgets, the contemptuous old fart still tried to make out that he was doing us all a favour, rather than actually having to back track on his previous empty threats.
Personally I think that press conference just reinforced the fact the our “esteemed” Mayor is nothing more than a morally corrupt, delusional and incompetent narcissist…..no surprises there!
Hypocrisy much Bomber? I think this is a case of “What’s good for the goose ..”
It’s the fact that giving Auckland Airport assets back to Maori once they’re finished with it has more accountability incomparision to selling those assets with no gaurentes that rates will fall. Infact according to the council’s own figures they’ll go up a bit anyway. Don’t do the white thing. Do the right thing.
Is he senile or demented?
ACT MY BRAIN MONEY SEE NOW MY MAYROL BRAIN MY MONEY MIND.
eh! shoose! let!s shoot the socialists.
Dare, you, question, im the Mayor,, question me, ask her! shee!s my deputy.
The best thing about the Boomer King is it will be guaranteed votes in Auckland for the left bloc.
The right are fucked for having old Alzheimer’s one term Mayor running Auckland. Chloe must be doing hand stands.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/06/opinion-auckland-mayor-wayne-brown-s-feud-with-media-distracting-from-city-s-key-issues.html
Bomber,, daft this next election, our old modern times,, is not capitalism a serious profit uncare old new time also.
Hand picking compliant media and supporters for a big announcement?
Hmmm, looks rather familiar.
Has Mayor Brown got a secret hot line to the Kremlin or something?
Mar a Lago
As a ratepayer i say – Sell it off! Taxpayers will buy it back. lol. privatise the gains, socialize the losses.
My old landlord used to put Desley Simpson signs in my front yard. Orakei Ward, lol. what a chuckle.
..she ended up getting it all wrong and paying out at the tenancy tribunal – poor dear and her family trust nearly choked on that one.
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