Mainstream media finally catch up to TDB on Auckland Mayoralty meltdown
High profile councillor Efeso Collins standing for Auckland Mayoralty
Labour councillor Efeso Collins says he is running for the Auckland mayoralty, creating a potential problem for the left at October’s local body elections.
Talk is mounting in left circles that Auckland Mayor Phil Goff will not seek a third term at October’s local body elections and endorse a rising star on council, North Shore councillor Richard Hills, to stand as his successor.
A potential contest between Manukau councillor Collins and Hills would split the left vote that has bedded in
Len Brown and Phil Goff as the only two mayors since the Super City was formed in 2010 – and give the centre-right a sniff of victory.
Goff and Hills have both said they will be announcing their plans in the “coming weeks”. Goff, a former Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister, could be in line for a diplomatic posting.
Isn’t it great to see the mainstream media finally catch up to where TDB has been on the Auckland Mayoralty since August of last year?
TDB was the first to call for a primary, so it’s good to see everyone else catching up to us.
As TDB has been pointing out since August of last year, the Auckland Left worship loyalty above talent and as such they are refusing to endorse Efeso over Richard bloody Hills!
Richard Hills is a woke fart in a unisex elevator who is as electable as a vegan sex toy at a meatlovers BBQ festival.
To endorse a candidate as weak as Hills because Efeso won’t toe the line is such a disgrace, the Auckland Left deserve to lose!
The state of play is Goff has been requested as the Ambassador to America by the Americans because they want a slavish thrall to Pax Americana as they start a new Cold War with China in the Pacific and no one sucks up to America more than Phil.
Shearer was going to run but then chickened out because he heard Paula Bennett was running and Mark Mitchell pulled out when he was offered something better from the coup movers against Judith.
Without Shearer to back, the Auckland Left have bypassed Efeso for Richard Hills.
Watching the Auckland Left slit Efeso Collins throat for the glass jaw that is Richard Hills as their Mayoralty Candidate is a blunder so colossal that I will spend a month laughing after we on the left lose.
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I am praying Richard Hills comes a distant 4th.
He’s Greater Aucklands tinfoil hat contributors second coming and be that the case, he will be guaranteed to have the reverse midas touch for Auckland, like all of their idiotic dreams that have been realized.
Leo Moloy is it by this time around.
If Leo Molloy the ‘poison dwarf’ is ‘it’ we are in …trouble!
I’m not saying he is Jesus revisited by any means but compared to the rest of the field he is the best.
At least he has skin in the game in Auckland in a practical non political sense and not tied lobbies like the anti car brigade. Nor is he woke!
The left – nowhere near the left! Except Efeso.
Hills is vacuous. For all he’s worth he might as well not exist.
Darien …. I dont know Hills but Effso has the creditability and good sense to serve all of Auckland well and not just the Labour elite. MB expressed an opinion and look out in come Labours elite backing their man. We need politicians who are there for the people and not to promote a conservative Labour party that has been found wanting in so many key areas, housing, child poverty, climate to name a few.
Effso is that man.
To avoid another white coot in a suit as Super city Mayor, Mr Collins needs a massive voter enrolment Campaign, and a good South Auckland turnout like that which saw Len Brown wipe the floor with Banksie.
The long typical sub 40% Auck. local govt. voter turnout shows even a number of middle class Tories can’t be arsed voting.