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Speaker 1: Mahe Drysdale's answered the question of what you do post

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Speaker 1: a high level sports Careersdale, He comes up to the

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Speaker 1: line what a race from her? Yes, he won the

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Speaker 1: towering a race over the weekend. Looks like he beat

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Speaker 1: the silver medalist by six thousand votes in Marhi. Drysdale's

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Speaker 1: with us Mahi morning to you, Good morning Mike, and

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Speaker 1: congratulations to you. Six thousand votes. Are you proof positive

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Speaker 1: that if you're a moderately well known New Zealander you

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Speaker 1: can pretty much be a mayor of any town you want.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say that. I think they they you know,

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Speaker 2: the people aren't. Aren't that silly, But you know, I

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Speaker 2: think they have very much looked at the success that

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Speaker 2: I've had and and said, you know, let's let's give

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Speaker 2: him a crack at trying to do the same in

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Speaker 2: our city.

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Speaker 1: What actually did you campaign on?

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Speaker 2: It's it's actually very hard to campaign on, you know,

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Speaker 2: for for local body, because you can't can't really promise

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Speaker 2: policy because you've you were only one of ten around

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Speaker 2: the table, so very much I voted. I campaigned on, uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, working as a team, collaboratively with with you know, government,

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Speaker 2: with the staff, with community, you know to deliver for

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Speaker 2: the city, and that's very much. You know, it's a

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Speaker 2: very positive campaign about how great the city is and

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Speaker 2: how much better it can be.

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Speaker 1: You've got seven I think I'm right in saying seven

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Speaker 1: of the nine councilors, and you do you have a

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Speaker 1: sense of who they are, what they're about, and whether

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Speaker 1: you can do some good stuff with them.

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Speaker 2: I've I've met a lot of them and done that

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Speaker 2: throughout the campaign. I've actually met all of them, but

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Speaker 2: I've had some you know, one on ones with with

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Speaker 2: a number of them as well. So I'm very excited

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Speaker 2: about the team that's been delivered. I think there's a

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Speaker 2: wide range of skills and uh, you know, I I

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Speaker 2: absolutely you know, I believe that they will work together,

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Speaker 2: you know, for the betterment of the city.

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Speaker 1: So you you you sense genuine goodwill at least to

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Speaker 1: start with.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know. And I think this is the where

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Speaker 2: politics goes wrong is you know, people bring agendas or

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Speaker 2: you know, I guess egos to the table and you

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Speaker 2: know they want to do their little thing, and you know,

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Speaker 2: that's not what this is about. This is about delivering

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Speaker 2: for for the citizens of the city. That's who you

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Speaker 2: work for. And that's how you should be accountable too.

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Speaker 2: So you know, that's very much. You know what I

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Speaker 2: believe I can bring to the table and deliver for

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Speaker 2: the citizens of Dottengham.

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Speaker 1: How do you explain the abysmal turnout?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's local body politics. You know, the turnouts

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Speaker 2: in line with the last kind of three elections. It's

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Speaker 2: it's pretty poor that you know, under under forty percent

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Speaker 2: of of the the town or the city you know

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Speaker 2: elects our members. But you know, we've got to engage

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Speaker 2: more with them so they understand. You know why it's

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Speaker 2: important to engage.

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Speaker 1: Because the funny thing about it is you, of all people,

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Speaker 1: not you personally, but you as in the tower on

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Speaker 1: the city. You get democracy taken away from you, and

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Speaker 1: you get the opportunity to have it back, and still

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Speaker 1: you can't be bothered getting out of bed and voting.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's amazing, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It is surprising. I thought it would be a very

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Speaker 2: big voter turnout. But again, we're probably go to look

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Speaker 2: at the way we're voting. You know, people don't check

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Speaker 2: their letterboxes anymore, and that's how it comes. You've got

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Speaker 2: to find a better way that people can vote easily.

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Speaker 1: Some of the issues. I always fascinated with the way

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Speaker 1: the media covers these sort of things and all the

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Speaker 1: issues you face. You're not the government, You're just the council.

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Speaker 1: Are some of the things they are expecting you to do? Actually,

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Speaker 1: Wellington's issue, not yours.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they are, but we've got to work together to

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Speaker 2: solve them because ultimately they affect the people that live

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Speaker 2: in our city. So you know, that's very important that

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Speaker 2: we work together with all range of groups in order

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Speaker 2: to solve some of these things.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, go well, mate, I wish you all the

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Speaker 1: very best with it. Mahu Drysdale, The Towering and Mass.

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