Contested 2 races — 0 won 2 pending
Come local elections, come janky web design, random family pictures and endless wells of fun facts about candidates (at least the ones who decide to make their own websites). It’s easy to think that we live in a time where the personal website has died: no more is it possible to find out about someone by going to a funkily arranged blog, because everyone uses the bland interfaces of social media instead.
As local elections fever grips the nation, council candidates are jostling for your vote the best way they know how: by chucking up great big bloody signs on the side of the road. Here are The Spinoff’s top picks from around the motu. Oh oh oh, Ohakune (David “Rabbit” Nottage, Ruapehu District Council) Here’s a man who knows his colour wheel, with the plummy purples of his tie and shiny (!) leopard print (!) shirt popping beautifully against the egg yolk yellow of whatever the hell that is behind him (choco eclair tank?).
In a packed race, voters weigh incumbent Jules Radich’s infrastructure track record against councilor Sophie Barker’s promise of a steady hand The post Dunedin’s mayor confident as momentum gathers behind former deputy appeared first on Newsroom .
Tara Ward attends the final mayoral debate in Dunedin to find out what a vampire would do for the city. There was standing room only in First Church’s Burns Hall last night for the final event in the Dunedin Area Citizens Association’s series of local election debates.
A group of Dunedin local body candidates has forced Smooth Hill, the city’s proposed new landfill, onto the election agenda – but mayor Jules Radich and other candidates say there’s no point in returning to a decision that’s been made. “Are you sure it’s a controversial issue?” says Jules Radich, mayor of Dunedin, on the phone.
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