Next person on Greens’ list to replace Doyle unsure if he wants it
The former Christchurch city councillor who is next on the Green Party’s list is still deciding whether he wants to join Parliament, after Benjamin Doyle resigned yesterday.
Mike Davidson, who was running for the community board in the Innes ward in this year’s local body elections, is next on the Green Party list.
Davidson is currently the Operations Manager at Whitiora, a skills and employment centre. He represented the Papanui ward as a councillor between 2016 and 2022.
At a mayoral debate in Christchurch, Davidson told 1News that the “opportunity” to go to Parliament is “something that I need to consider quite strongly, and I’m going to do that over the weekend”.
Dear Mike Davidson, you MUST take the next Green Party list position.
After all the flakey shit from the Identity Politics clique who were empowered by the Greens inane woke voting structure, (Kerekere, Darleen Tana, Doyle) the Greens desperately need some stability, and nothing says stability like heteronormative white cis males.
The Greens need Mike way more than Mike needs the Greens right now, and if he doesn’t stand, the next person on the list is this one...
..Stephanie Rogers who pole danced to raise funds for her election campaign will just become the next advert for ACT/NZF and National to use in the election.
I’m not sure more angry feminists is what the Greens need right now.
Can we please focus on trying to win the election rather than score points against the patriarchy?
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Hey Mike, you’re absolutely right to have serious doubts. You’d be crazy to take up that low list position! What, and give up your nice business to work under that woke leadership in a crazy political setup to achieve almost nothing????? That’s just the nutty kind of thinking one would expect from a typical Greenie, but that’s not you. So don’t do it mate. Stick with building your business and give the slot to the pole dancer. They them she are perfect for it.
Demonstrating the dumbfuckery we expect of a right wing troll gumboot – keep up the good work to remind us of the mindset we despise – ill-informed, ill-educated and dubiously motivated
Mike Davidson is Ngāi Tahu ancestry as well. I think he would be good for the greens
Well, he’s not purely a heteronormative white cis male then, is he….
But would the Greens be good for him . He has earned a good reputation as a councilor perhaps he does not want to lose it .
you seem to be worried trev
I worry for him shame to waste his potential on a pack of losers
Well Trevor he could join one of the coalition parties and be labelled either a tin foil hat wearing fruit cake, an Atlas Network drop kick, or simply incompetent when managing the economy.
A good candidate-make sure you clean out your social media bro!
I guess he is doing good and committed work locally so it will be hard to leave that. He seems like a great candidate and god knows the Greens need as many as they can get after Efeso died and the debacle of the others that have thankfully been booted out or left. Doyle wasn’t politician material and didn’t listen to advice that they really should have and the other two were stupid or corrupt. Rogers has already failed the political nous test and she would be mincemeat in no time. I really hope Davidson takes the position for the greater good of us all countrywide at this crucial time in NZ politics. Please please take it, thanks Mike.
I had never heard of this guy before, so I did what you do, I googled him.
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Davidson_(politician)
Mike Davidson is a New Zealand politician. He will represent the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand as a Member of Parliament when he is appointed to Parliament in October 2025 to replace Benjamin Doyle.
Party: Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand….
[These are his credentials for the job]
…..Davidson was previously an environmental scientist. He worked for the Earthquake Commission for seven years.[1][5] Davidson also worked as an operational manager at Whitiora, a skills and employment centre.[6]
Previous office: Member of the Christchurch City Council (2016–2022)
Previous campaigns: New Zealand general election, 2023, New Zealand general election, 2023 – Ilam
…..Davidson was chairperson of the urban development and transport committee, and is an advocate for cycleways and better urban transport.[7][5][8]
Leader/manager – Whitiora
Environmental scientist
Experienced politician
Committed to fighting climate change
This ia a great CV for the job.
I wish him well.
As new MPs, Mike Davidson and Oriini Kaipara both step onto the national stage, I believe that they both will make a positive, if not outstanding, contribution to this country’s future progress, well being and unity.
I can’t wait to witness their maiden speech.
I hope The Daily Blog will consider live streaming both Mike Davidson and Oriini’s maiden speech on entering parliament. If these two new MPs can make a maiden speech anywhere near as good and as fuil of promise as the great Green MP Efeso Collins’ maiden speech, we will all be blown away.
That’s interesting Simonn about the Maori connection. What Martyn says about the need is good and Mike Davidson could do much. He has a good pounamu pendant as a talisman and knows the problems I think. Pakeha are hoping for Maori to move up so we can all do better than we have, not just different.
I’ve been reading Soren Kierkegaard this afternoon – this may be appropriate.
I may live for thirty years, or perhaps forty, or maybe just one day: therefore I have resolved to use this day, or whatever I have to say in these thirty years or whatever I have to say this one day I may have to live —
I have resolved to use it in such a way that if not one day in my whole past life has been used well, this one by the help of God will be. JP VIII 1 A 533
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard#
Yes, he really must.
I’m for the pole dancer fits the mould.
Davidson is a good test for the Greens – if they can accommodate him, they may begin to restore the broad appeal they enjoyed under Jeanette & Matt. NZ has strong ecological values, in spite of DoC overreach and ill-starred and intemperate adventures like 1080.
Given the fate of so many Green MPs, it’s only sensible to consider if you’re willing to roll the dice and enter Parliament.
There’s always the pole-dancer if he doesn’t want to risk his health, reputation and freedom.
Well I guess she could stop dancing with pole a beat up kids with it instead!
Is there just the one of them?
I guess pole dancing is a rather bizarre way to fund raise. If you are in the coalition you don’t have to solicit anything because shady arseholes with lots of money buy any principles you may have once had.
I want to see the fat pole dancer in parliament.
Do you want to ask them a question at a suitable time?