Posts by Hebe
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Latest: Tight in Banks Peninsula: six-vote lead for Andrew Turner over Nuk Korako, with Paula Smith 50 or so behind that. Be a few days before that council spot is settled.
Most of the rest are much as stated at first. Paul Lonsdale better off then I first thought with about 1200 lead over the third candidate in Hagley-Ferrymead.
Interesting mix: quite a few People’s Choice/Labour, one Cit, rest Independent. Looks likely to be an effective council who will be responsive to the community. Deputy mayor choice will be interesting and important.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Still on the Community Board though.
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Banks Peninsula looks like its very close: specials and recount maybe. Also Hagley-Ferrymead: Lonsdale's margin is thin.
Lots of former 2021ers, but a centrist lot overall.
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Rebuild Christchurch says the CCC results are:
Lianne Dalziel is mayor elect
Councillors elect are
Pauline Cotter
Ali Jones
Jamie Gough
Raf Manji
Glenn Livingstone
David East
Vicki Buck
Jimmy Chen
Yani Johanson
Paul Lonesdale
Phil Clearwater
Tim Scandrett
Paul Smith
That would remove sitting councillors Ngaire Button (deputy mayor), Aaron Keowen, Claudia Reid, Helen Broughton plus the retirements. Remains to be seen how close these are and if any challenges. -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Low turn-out (38 per cent last night) is awful. Less than 2010. Like voters are thinking that Lianne Dalziel will be mayor, so what is the point of voting.
As a result there could be some gnarly councillor results: lots of people running in my ward for instance : three very good options but possible that the vote will be so low and so split that an oddity comes down the middle. I hope it’s not the one styling himself “a normal Kiwi bloke".
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That should be thanks Russell and Emma!
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Emma Hart,
Emma, I don’t read or take part in these threads for “trigger” reasons: my first teenage sexual experience was bad, very (no, not family). Thank you from my heart for doing the work that I find impossible to do.
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Hard News: Squatting in the Square, in reply to Russell Brown,
I missed the one in an old school building that The Face called “the party of the decade” because I’d promised my friends at 62 Bonnington Square I’d go to their party. I was grumpy about that, but that ended up being the night that Fiona walked back into my life. So it really worked out pretty well, all up.
Heh: it worked out pretty well. Beloved asked me to take him to Ashburton in order to lure me into his web...
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Hard News: Squatting in the Square, in reply to Rich Lock,
In the end I embraced my previously-rejected Kiwi and found it enabled me to interact easily with everyone from nobs to barrow blokes. Most British don't have that luxury unless they reflag themselves like you did.
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This week we’re building a vege garden picket fence: Nina is, unfortunately, a digger. The backyard is having to be reworked to accommodate a puppy rather than a lazy, snoring labrador: Fort Knox gates soon.