I want to support Māori Women in leadership.
I do!
I want to support more diversity.
I really do!
But sweet Jesus Tory Whanau makes it hard doesn’t she?
I get that she receives a disgusting amount of racism and misogyny, but her own lacklustre performance and support for right wing economic mythology should not inoculate her from self inflicted incompetence.
How the Christ did she manage to turn her recent ZB Interview into a self centred sob story of how tough she’s doing it on $189k…
‘Feeling the crunch’: Tory Whanau sells car to help pay the bills
– Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau says she’s not spending at the moment because of the cost of living crisis
– She says her mortgage rates have doubled in the past few years and she recently sold her car to help pay the bills
– The mayor recently received a 3.7% pay rise, taking her annual salary to $189,799
– She’s acknowledged things are “really tough” in Wellington at the moment
…how did she mange to turn this into all about her?
The dysfunction of the Wellington Council is already a nationwide embarrassment and joke, whining about how tough things are for you on $189k while your entire city writhes in economic pain is Darleen Tana level tone deaf.
My favourite NZ Twitter commentator Liquid Times nails it once again…
…the aesthetic left Professional Management Class in Wellington are in it for themselves, not the people so it is no surprise they can’t help but articulate their own self needs rather than leadership.
People don’t want to hear how hard it is for Tory with $189k, they want solutions to their economic pain, not a confessional self help therapy session on how tough it is for her!
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I think it’s the Wellington City Council’s rates rises coming home to roost.
Seems she can’t even run her own personal finances, how the hell can she organise a multi million city council to run well.
She won 1.2million on Lotto (2002)
She earns 190k a year and is struggling with a big mortgage.
What happened to the 1.2million….all gone, with no assets to show for it?
She is the epitome of a left wing politician,completely and utterly incompetent,devoid of any fiscal skills.
Sounds like Nicola Willis
Hahahaheheh good one
Martyn – You missed the fact that Tory won over $1.4 million playing Lotto in 2004…
Glad you mentioned the PMC, but Left Parties have nobody else anymore to get things done – which means things won’t get done. The State is now both huge and useless, and all you can think of doing is making it bigger.
Another incompetent Green. However Wellington deserves its low performing Council. The people knowingly voted in an activist leftist majority whose skill set is not obvious. Hopefully the government does not appoint an observer and Wellington ratepayers reap what they have sown. Outside Wellington, people are enjoying the popcorn.
Ennius. Some voted for Tory thinking that she was a goody Green environmentalist, posing in a glam trench coat pin-up style the way the Parliamentary Green girls tend to do, aided and abetted by marshalling out-of-town students who do not pay the rates and like to think they’re saving the planet one drink at a time, and that the young know everything.
When a single woman with no dependants can’t exist on $189,000 it’s time to appoint a Commissioner to clean up Wellington. Some will scream racism, just like they scream anti-Muslim accusations against those uncomfortable about the woke WCC wanting Islam’s call to prayer broadcast daily over Wellington, and I daresay that some will also wail misogyny. As a long suffering rate payer I can live with that.
Tory had her own councillors “ investigated “ for non-existent leaks, which is bloody funny for citizens whose sw drain overflows, and sewage leaks, and suburban geysers, impact horridly upon their lives for weeks at a time and whose unsold cars are likely to be wrecked by potholes, if they can afford the petrol to run them.
I agree with you, and I live in Wellington.
Wellington’s ratepayers can get what they voted for – good and hard.
In fairness, she gave that answer ‘When pressed by [Newstalk ZB’s Wellington Mornings host Nick] Mills about whether she “actually feels it” – the financial pressure’.
Whanau could have either said she’s not feeling the pressure, or give an insincere sounding answer that she does. Both would provide a desired negative headline for ZB to post.
Yep
Low hanging fruit…Do better!!!
You could have stopped at: “Is Tory Whanau capable”
The answer to that would be “no”
Some, of whatever political stripe, are just not suited to public office. Examples abound in recent history…“don’t you know who I am!”…Aaron Gilmore Natzo MP. Steal a dead kids ID…Act MP David Garrett.
Before some here get a nose bleed from their high horses, read my link about another Wellington Mayor, ex shoe salesman Mr Blumsky…beaten up except he was not, just pissed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Blumsky
Tory seems not to have the self discipline or awareness to do very well, and will highly likely be a one termer. But that does not justify the usual suspects on TDB running their misogynist lines.
What mysoginistic lines Tiger?
Are we not allowed to criticize the mayor for the fuck ups and the fact she is skint/struggling despite over a million won 20yrs ago and 190k salary.
Is it mysoginistic to even say anything against her as she is a maori and female.
Please advise us all what we are allowed to say! which will obviously delight your socialist/marxist DNA
Mark Blumsky hasn’t been mayor for over 20 years, and criticising the mayor poor performance is not misogynistic. Thinking that she needs defending because she is a woman is, however, somewhat patronising.
Re last paragraph. Agree. I regret giving her a ranking last election. She is arrogant and void of any sense of being self aware unfortunatel. A true blue Green.
After the revelation she received that she may be ADHD, suddenly she was the expert – to the extent she wanted to be an ambassador.
All the above however, as you say, no reason for the mysogeny from the tuff blokes and blokesses commenting on this site.
She is incapable end of story.
The people of Wellington, watching this car crash of a mayoralty, must be thinking “What the fuck have we done to put her in this job???
Well, this is good, she definitely sealed her fate because there is no hope in hell she will be re-elected. Folks, this is what happens when you get the Green Party trying to run anything other than a street protest in support of poor old Hamas – you get a fucked up city. Warning to anyone who think Chloe Swarbrick should be in charge!!!!
Since James Shaw, the last of the sane Greens, left the Political scene there is not one Green able to conduct a `non Train Wreck’ interview.
Having said that even Shaw was susceptible to clangers in his last couple of years.
It must be catching among Greens because the activists removed from the ACT Meeting in Hastings a couple of weeks ago did the party no favours either..
Tory is odds on to become part of the Green Party,she has the qualifications in spades.
I think that like bob the idiot and im right, because mummy says so- ’cause I was never sure, tory whanau is fundamentally unintelligent. If she was smart she’d have kept her mouth shut. bob the roger and im far right, take note. It’s better that you keep you’re fingers to yourself and let people think you’re idiots than try to write and prove it. While whining about it all being just sooooo hard tory’d have to walk past the wretched homeless who’ve now become silly little wellington’s signature irony dossing down with basic, gleeful cruelty in the wee town of bleached anuses and champagne urine, which we all must pay for.
tory whanau? Shut up. Fuck off. You’re embarrassing yourself.
She has kids or Pets to feed probably and has to walk or bike to work.
Yep but she walked into it.As a person who seems to fail upwards she needs to learn how to give political answers to trick questions. She still might end up a good Mayor, I hope so.
She seems to be chaotic, undisciplined and unprepared. And far too trusting of the media to blurt like this. That is bad enough. But at least she’s not actively malevolent like the Nat-ACT boys.