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Speaker 1: The Wellington mayor went out not really in a blaze

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Speaker 1: of glory yesterday, more a fireball of misery and bitchiness

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Speaker 1: Tory far now we speak of, of course, probably the local

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Speaker 1: body posted child for an aptitude she gave her by

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Speaker 1: by speech she was a shambles. She may well still

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Speaker 1: be back, of course she's standing in the Marray world.

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Speaker 1: She seems to me like a person who, if she

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Speaker 1: wasn't in local body politics, might have trouble finding work,

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Speaker 1: as she admitted after it was too late, that she

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Speaker 1: really should have done her homework before chasing the big

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Speaker 1: meural job. She won because too many people, of course,

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Speaker 1: stood for Maya and split the vote. So by the

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Speaker 1: time you deal with the appalling turnout and split the

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Speaker 1: vote several times over, you don't actually need a lot

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Speaker 1: of support to get a job that you weren't even

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Speaker 1: qualified for in the first place. But that's local body politics,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. That's the joke of it all. At least

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Speaker 1: it's a national level, whether it's on a list or

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Speaker 1: in an electorate, there's a group of experienced operators within

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Speaker 1: the party that give you the once over. Locally, literally,

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Speaker 1: anyone can have a go and that if you haven't

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Speaker 1: worked at art yet is a problem. It wasn't all

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Speaker 1: her fault. Of course, Amya is not a president and

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Speaker 1: is but one vote. But Amir's job shouldn't be a

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Speaker 1: funsies party trick because you bored or unemployable. Are there

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Speaker 1: were the personal issues? That's another problem in a lack

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Speaker 1: of vetting. Of course, some people are basically just as shambles,

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Speaker 1: and she's clearly one of those. Not a crime. We

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Speaker 1: all got issues. It's just advisable not to have them

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Speaker 1: on display while you're trying to run things like a city,

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Speaker 1: and the city pretty much a reflection of her leadership.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it a mess? Infrastructurally an embarrassment Level one water

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Speaker 1: strictions already when we're barely out of autumn, a devastated CBD,

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Speaker 1: angst fury and backstabbing having been a feature of decision making,

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Speaker 1: that particular trait aired yet again in a farewell speech.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday we seem to be I was thinking to myself,

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Speaker 1: like yesterday afternoon, we seem to be in an era

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Speaker 1: where quality in so many eras, areas where parts of

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Speaker 1: life has gone by the wayside, and Tory farn now

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Speaker 1: certainly an example of that. She came, she cocked it up,

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Speaker 1: She flailed, she flapped about what we were. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we were like her psychologists, weren't we She aired her

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Speaker 1: many and varied problems, then puff I'm off until she wasn't.

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Speaker 1: Then they sadly really are. But honestly, in a city

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Speaker 1: of people like Kits and Fowler and Bellach, maybe even

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Speaker 1: wild and prindigast Old Tory is hardly one for the

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