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Speaker 1: Brian Breadshe so Wellington's male race was supposed to get

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Speaker 1: boring from here on out, It was supposed to get

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Speaker 1: really lame. Tory Farno came in, of course, like a

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Speaker 1: wrecking ball, her tipsy Courtney Place Wilwind took the capital

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Speaker 1: by storm. It was sallacious, it was juicy, it was bizarre.

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Speaker 1: It captivated the country. There was the don't you know

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Speaker 1: who I am? There was the dining and dashing at

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Speaker 1: restaurant bills. This was a movie script worthy of production.

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Speaker 1: Across the road in miramar As, stories about late night

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Speaker 1: incidents and missed council meetings flooded the newspapers. Wellington's streets

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Speaker 1: were flooding, literally, the broken and leaky pipes cracked out

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Speaker 1: of the ground, almost like the city's infrastructure was creaking

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Speaker 1: and moaning on behalf of all Wellingtonians. The rates rises,

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Speaker 1: the airport's sales, the broken promises, the cycle ways, still

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Speaker 1: no second tunnel through Mount vic by the way. But

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Speaker 1: then it all came to a head. Andrew Little entered

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Speaker 1: the chat Tory pools out and from here on in

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Speaker 1: it was meant to get boring. You know when you're

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Speaker 1: watching a movie and it reaches the climax and the

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Speaker 1: world is saved by the superhero. Everything's a little shaken up,

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Speaker 1: but the main cast is safe and happy ever after.

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Speaker 1: But then there's basically no more plot. You know, no

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Speaker 1: more juicy stuff. The plot basically ends, Well Wellington, You're

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Speaker 1: getting a sequel within the original. Meryl candidate Ray Chung

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Speaker 1: sent his colleagues an email regaling them with a story

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Speaker 1: a friend told him while he was out walking his dog.

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Speaker 1: In it, he says Tory Farno had drug fueled, tempestuous

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Speaker 1: sex with a bunch of young guys. He also claims

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Speaker 1: he was told that she had pendulous soft breasts. It's

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Speaker 1: starting to smell a little bit like Ontario and Canada.

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Speaker 1: Remember that the mayor who was accused of smoking crack.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just scandal, just scandal through an election campaign,

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Speaker 1: a local election campaign. To get real for a minute.

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Speaker 1: Two things. One, Tory denies the story completely and utterly

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Speaker 1: rejects it. Two Ray sent this to three fellow counselors

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Speaker 1: on their personal email addresses, so it was a private email,

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Speaker 1: he claims, and Ray reckons that one of those people

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Speaker 1: has leaked it to Tory, who has leaked it to

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Speaker 1: the press. So then you start to wonder, is one

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Speaker 1: of Ray's former fellow council mates now turning on him,

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Speaker 1: perhaps for political reasons. I don't know the answer to

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Speaker 1: that question. All I really know is that Wellington you

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Speaker 1: need some popcorn because you're in for one hell of

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Speaker 1: a tempestuous election campaign. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive,

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