Lorde & Jacinda are voting for Efeso, and so should you (if you want free public transport)

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern endorses Efeso Collins for Auckland mayoralty

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern​ has thrown her weight behind Auckland mayoral candidate Efeso Collins​ as a tightly contested race comes to a close.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Ardern endorsed Collins, saying he was a candidate who could “bring together Auckland”.

“In our minds he’s a candidate that can really continue the significant investment that’s been going on into regional economic development [and] public transport,” she said.

Lorde and Jacinda have both come out and endorsed Efeso Collins for mayor.

And you should too if you want free public transport!

The cost of living crisis has not gone away and the poorest 25% of people spend 30% of the weekly income on transport, this City will be forever gridlocked if we don’t get people out of their cars and onto public transport.

Making public transport free takes people off the roads, allows tradies, delivery people and Truckers who actually need to use the road less congestion and it lowers our emissions target.

We won’t get free public transport if Wayne Brown is elected.

Currently, we are tracking to have less than the paltry 2019 35% turn out in Auckland’s Mayoralty Election.

That is a pitiful wasteland of local democracy descending into apathetic decline! Structural poverty issues like homlessness and constant moving robs poor people from voting while the older white baby boomers vote with the same ruthless passion of piranha feeding at a kindergarten swimming pool.

Indeed in many cases those rich white boomers have property in multiple locations and gain multiple votes, oh how quick the right’s ‘one person one vote’ mantra against co-governance goes out the window when it’s their landed gentry voting priviledges that get challenged.

What most people don’t know about NZ Elections is that we are such a cheap arsed country we contracted out the holding of the local elections to a private company, a private company who have no real interest or desire to run the elections for anything other than the cheapest means possible.

Also, isn’t it a tad on the nose for Wayne Brown to clutch his pearls and demand Leo Molloy stand down for language not befitting a mayor when he is caught on camera talking about pissing on Simon Wilson – what other Journalists will Wayne Brown cancel from his press conferences if he is elected Mayor?

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