Tory Whanau’s latest train-wreck interview and that Nadine Walker quote that has to be read to be believed

Why does she continue to appear on ZB?

She manages to wreck herself every week on that station.

Last time it was her claiming she had sold her car on ZB because of the cost of living only rot appear on Q+A to say that wasn’t true???

Now it’s her change of an answer from, “I’m running for 3 terms’, to, “I’m talking with friends and family over the holidays’…

Has Tory Whanau changed her mind about running again for Wellington’s mayoralty?- A Capital Letter

• Tory Whanau has previously said she is committed to three terms as Wellington’s mayor
• Her council has been under intense pressure recently leading to a Crown observer being appointed
• The mayor now says she wants to talk to family and friends about running again

…”I’m talking with friends and family over the holidays’, is code for, “I’m stepping down”.

And stepping down should be a consideration for her after the grim insight The Spinoff has brought  to her Mayoralty and the extraordinary meeting between her and the Wellington Union’s over her deeply flawed plane to sell Wellington Airport…

They walked into the mayor’s meeting room, flanked by support. They’d brought Craig Renney with them, along with Rilke Comer from the advocacy group Climate Clinic, who was there to speak to the issue’s climate change dimension. 

There were seven in the mayor’s contingent: the three other Green councillors, regional councillor Thomas Nash, the council’s chief financial officer Andrea Reeves, and the mayor’s chief of staff Nadine Walker. A former Green Party press secretary and partner of party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick, Walker was widely seen by councillors as hugely influential within the mayor’s office. As one councillor said, “Let’s be very, very clear. Nadine is running the show.”

No written records of the meeting exist, and the mayor has declined to comment, but conversations with more than half of those present confirm the general narrative.  The Unions Wellington delegation spoke first. Renney, Comer and Cordwell argued why the council should not sell. The response from the other side – conveyed mainly by Walker and Reeves – was that the mayor didn’t actually want to sell but felt there was no alternative. 

Rilke Comer had only been tangentially involved in the campaign but could tell there was tension in the air. “It felt like a pretty hostile environment,” she says. It was all polite enough at first. But after half an hour, Renney and Nash left, and the tone shifted. 

Cordwell raised the topic of the public forum, asking the mayor to attend so she could explain where she stood to her supporters. Rizos-Shaw had emailed the mayor’s office an invitation weeks before but had received no reply. As it happens, the mayor’s team had already decided that Whanau would not be attending. A staffer advised the deputy mayor of this four days beforehand – although no one had told Unions Wellington.

The two sides went back and forth but made no progress. Ninety minutes after the meeting began, the Unions Wellington crew stumbled out onto the Terrace bewildered. Rizos-Shaw was nearly in tears. An hour late for work, she texted her boss: “just got yelled at by the mayor, sorry!”

“It was a bad atmosphere,” says Jacob. “Tory has done a lot of yelling, accusing us of sabotaging her personally, having an attitude problem, refusing to come to the forum. It couldn’t have gone worse.” Two days out from the public forum – a crucial moment in the campaign – their confidence was shaken. But there was still hope – two glimmers of it, in fact. 

… the Nadine Walker quote manages to sum up everything people detest about Green Party Identitarians, read it and gasp…

Sixteen minutes later, Walker replied, “Tory is still going to decline going to this meeting, and I have to say, unfortunately, even with your commitment to a safe environment to discuss, I found this agenda item framed up in a way that is disconcerting.” Walker was referring to the agenda item described as “Pinning Councillors/Mayor down”. Rizos-Shaw was confused. “‘Pinning’ is merely community organizing slang for asking candidates yes or no questions,” she replied.

…here is the Nadine Walker quote that you have to read to believe…

“OK, thanks for clarifying,” said Walker. “I am used to Greens language/kaupapa, where metaphors that invoke violence are avoided, so perhaps that is why I was shocked to read that!”

…WOW!

Just. WOW!

The only thing more passive-aggressive than that statement is slapping your own face during orgasm!

If it is true that the Green Party speaks with such snowflake triggers, they are more pathetic than I could have ever comprehended.

Walker is an insight into middle class wokeness in a way you can’t fake.

She attempted to twist ‘pinning down the Mayor’ into some sexual assault safety issue and was triggered by the mere use of the word!

Isn’t this woke bullshit sickening when the Mayors Office is trying to sell off the Airport!

I’m sick of defending Tory, she has to go. To attack the Wellington Union Team in the way described above only to ice that cake with such woke nonsense is enough to have her dumped.

Why can’t the Left in Wellington sort their shit out?

Tory and Walker need to leave the Mayors Office to get roles inside the Green Party and continue their nonsense inside them so Labour can look far more rational.

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