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Speaker 1: I don't know Alisha Milmane, but I wish you nothing

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Speaker 1: but the best. But as it turns out, she is

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Speaker 1: your new counselor in the Kahuranaki seat Hastings District Council.

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Speaker 1: So she was standing against one person. That person withdrew,

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Speaker 1: so she wins by default. She got no experience. She

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Speaker 1: put a hand up, one person standing, congratulations, jobs yours.

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Speaker 1: What a stupid system. So this story is far from unique.

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Speaker 1: Of course, plenty of elections aren't even held because no

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Speaker 1: one stands all people who may or may not be

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Speaker 1: any good don't get opponents, so they win by default.

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Speaker 1: So here's an idea. Excepting we are fantastically over governed

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Speaker 1: and clearly there are nowhere near the number of people

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Speaker 1: interested in filling the jobs, how about we run a

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Speaker 1: system whereby you have a minimum number of candidates, like

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Speaker 1: a quorum. If you don't get that number of the

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Speaker 1: voters off the people if there are any, do not

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Speaker 1: contest that seat, and either the seat is left vacant

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Speaker 1: for a term, and or a commissioner or overseer is

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Speaker 1: appointed like they've done in places like Towering around that

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Speaker 1: areas when the council falls apart, In other words, you

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Speaker 1: appoint an experience expert. Having a vacant seat might lead

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Speaker 1: to more interest next time, or it might lead to

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Speaker 1: the realization there are too many seats. Having an expert

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Speaker 1: or a commissioner might lead to a realization that amateur

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Speaker 1: hour is no way to run a city, or a

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Speaker 1: town or a district. We don't hand out regular jobs

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Speaker 1: by default. Why on earth do we do it at

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Speaker 1: the highest level of civic leadership. The scenario is so desperate.

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Speaker 1: We literally take anyone that's not smart running a raffle

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Speaker 1: far less a population, and yet here we are with

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Speaker 1: any number of councils, mide and debt and handing out

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Speaker 1: cost plus accounting rate rises because they don't have a

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Speaker 1: clue how to run anything properly. If someone from MARS

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Speaker 1: came down to review the way we do this, they

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Speaker 1: would fall over laughing at our stupidity. So it's a contest,

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Speaker 1: it's a quorum, or we do some appointing of some

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Speaker 1: actual talent. Now you tell me that's not a bad idea.

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