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Speaker 1: The reactions overnight to Luckson's broadside to the mayors and

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Speaker 1: the local councils in Wellington yesterday will be telling him,

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Speaker 1: or should be telling him, that he's pretty much on

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Speaker 1: the right track. He got stuck in over spending on

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Speaker 1: dumb stuff his words, not mine, like convention centers, at

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Speaker 1: the expense of basic stuff like leaky pipes.

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Speaker 2: I think the building that we're in today is a

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Speaker 2: classic example with pipes bursting, and quite literally this morning,

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Speaker 2: pipes bursting on the streets not far from here. And

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Speaker 2: it looks very nice, and it's great, and it's very

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Speaker 2: nice for us politicians to have a wonderful space to

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Speaker 2: make some great speeches in. But can anyone seriously say

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Speaker 2: that was the right financial decision?

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Speaker 1: It was the spin doctor's wet dream yesterday was the

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Speaker 1: burst pipes outside. I mean, the contrast between all of

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Speaker 1: the mayors and the councilors sitting in one hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty million dollar gold Plager Convention Center while you know,

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Speaker 1: ordinary Joe and Jane like you and me, are trudging

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Speaker 1: through lakes to reach the bus stop. It was pretty

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Speaker 1: good from a pr perspective, not good for or the

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Speaker 1: Tory finos of the world. The Wellington mayor, she said

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Speaker 1: overnight Luxen was punching down on meors. The Green councilor

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Speaker 1: Thomas Nash called it manna diminishing for those gathered. Really,

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Speaker 1: what about the manna of rape payers. Who's literally whose

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Speaker 1: pooh floats in the ocean when it rains, whose streets

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Speaker 1: become lakes when a pipe bursts, and whose driveways streets

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Speaker 1: are little with potholes. I mean, what about the manna

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Speaker 1: of the rape payers? Rather than just thinking about yourselves

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Speaker 1: in your nice, cushy little convention center in Wellington. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: Luxon will know that, and it's pretty much what he

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Speaker 1: knew going in. This wasn't a speech for the meyors

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Speaker 1: and for the counselors, but rather it was aimed over

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Speaker 1: their heads to the rate and more importantly for him,

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Speaker 1: the taxpayers.

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