Huba Huba

[Jackrat]

john banks is gone.

[toads]

interesting isn't it, democracy does work it would seem, quite blew me away actually, I'd given up on anything every changing. Lets hope it extends to parliament

[Al]

Yeah, about 17000 votes less than Hubbard..... I think he has come down to earth with a solid thump, he really didn't expect to lose hey!

Al

[Yamahamaman]

I'm still waiting for my voting papers to arrive.

Not really democratic is it?

[NC]

Banks rhymes with Wanks... Arrest my case

[Posh Tourer :P]

Great thread title BTW

[Yamahamaman]

Oh yes, great thread.

That's another post toward my 'whoredem' (if there is such a word - if not, then I have just invented it).

[riffer]

I'll stand in for them.

Actually, it's whoredom.

which dictionary.com describes as:

whore·dom (hôrdm, hr-)
n.

1. The practice of accepting payment in exchange for sexual relations; prostitution.
2. 1. Unlawful sexual relations.
   2. Promiscuous sex.
3. Bible. Unfaithfulness to God; idolatry.

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[Middle English hordom, from Old Norse hrdmr. See k- in Indo-European Roots.]

BTW pleased to see Dick Hubbard won. That Banks strikes me as a complete tosser. One week he says "I run a tight ship. Nothing goes on that I don't know about" and the next week its "I had no idea what my campaign manager was up to." And he hangs him out to dry. Not good management or people relations.

Just for that alone I would have voted him out.

Hopefully Dick Hubbard will be good for ACC. What does he stand for?

[Posh Tourer :P]

Hopefully Dick Hubbard will be good for ACC. What does he stand for?

Women and disabled persons, along with the queen.

He's a fairly decent guy by the sounds of it. His cereal kingdom is run with a lot of inclusion of the workers - he took them all to Samoa for a week a while ago. Socially responsible business and all that.

In terms of his mayoralty, scaled down Eastern Highway, and I would guess some alterations to the rating system if he manages to get enough like-minded people into the council with him (somehow I suspect it'll be all Cits and Rats, but hey) TBH, the cadidates spent more time yelling at each other than promoting policies. Huba Huba seems to be fairly sensible though, on issues such as the V8 Race. I think I recall him saying that he would support a V8 race in Auckland, but not necessarily where it is now.

[Yamahamaman]

I'll stand in for them.

Actually, it's whoredom.

which dictionary.com describes as:

whore·dom (hôrdm, hr-)
n.

1. The practice of accepting payment in exchange for sexual relations; prostitution.
2. 1. Unlawful sexual relations.
   2. Promiscuous sex.
3. Bible. Unfaithfulness to God; idolatry.

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[Middle English hordom, from Old Norse hrdmr. See k- in Indo-European Roots.]

But that context is not the definition I wished to convey, therefore it must be a new word - gosh, famous at last

[MikeL]

Hopefully Dick Hubbard will be good for ACC. What does he stand for?

Doesn't matter. A mayor doesn't need a platform. Common sense and an open mind are more important than "principles' which will always be compromised anyway. Hubbard may be a naive idealist, but Banks is a cynical egotist whose vision of what is best for Auckland always seemed to coincide with what was best for his cronies...

[toads]

It has been my observation that good, law abiding people enter the political arena with all sorts of good intentions, and very rapidly become politician's, aka dishonest, self serving, corrupted individuals.
Maybe I'm just being nasty, it is probably very difficult to swim against the tide, of "this is the way it's done around here", but lets not forget the Mayor does not call the shots, all the other beauracrats that sit in council vote and they are more than likely the same people that were there before.
In Gisborne we have a mini auckland scenario taking place here with the only only candidates for mayor being the current one and a total stranger to politics, a guy who organised a rates protest a few years back, just a joe average!,
It would be quite interesting if he got elected!

[Skyryder]

As far as council meetings go the Mayor is the Chaiman and as such has more power than people realise. His word is law. That can be questioned and appealed but in the final reckoning if the Mayor wants a discussion terminated he can do it. His role is akin to the Speaker in the House.

Skyryder

[toads]

I stand corrected,

[Jackrat]

As far as council meetings go the Mayor is the Chaiman and as such has more power than people realise. His word is law. That can be questioned and appealed but in the final reckoning if the Mayor wants a discussion terminated he can do it. His role is akin to the Speaker in the House.

Skyryder

This is true but he's still going to be entering the same system and he's going to be open to manipulation by that system.
I think maybe this is what Toads ment??
Still it might be nice to have a Mayor who doesn't openly dislike me.