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Speaker 1: New player in the local body election game for you.

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Speaker 1: This morning actor announcing for the first time they will

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Speaker 1: stand candidates come October. David Seymour's with us morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Way.

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Speaker 1: Isn't this a big call? Do you need this headache?

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Speaker 2: It's not a headache, it's an opportunity. I've been a

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Speaker 2: member of Parliament for a bit over ten years now

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Speaker 2: and I can't tell you how many of the issues

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Speaker 2: people bring to me. If I'm honest with them, I'd say, well,

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Speaker 2: that comes down to your counselor it's your counsel that's

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Speaker 2: making that decision. They have their own elected body. It's

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Speaker 2: really for them. Of course, I usually don't say that

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Speaker 2: because people want their problem solved by the person in

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Speaker 2: front of them. But I just feel that if New

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Speaker 2: Zealand has had people in front of them who they

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Speaker 2: know what they're getting because they're part of a brand

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Speaker 2: that the people who are committed to reducing wastes and rates,

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Speaker 2: helping people get where they want to get on via terms,

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Speaker 2: not socially engineering them into cycle ways, and believe in

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Speaker 2: universal human rights where we no longer divide people by

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Speaker 2: when their ancestors arrive. Those are three things where I

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Speaker 2: think ACT has a strong brand. I think there might

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Speaker 2: be people in each community who want to stand under

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Speaker 2: that banner and we'd get better local government as a result.

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Speaker 1: Why can't they do that as an independent? What are

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Speaker 1: you looking for? An independent or an ACT? Disciple?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's actually a combination of the two.

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Speaker 2: Disciple is a strong word, but you basically need to

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Speaker 2: know what you're getting, And often people will say to me, well,

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Speaker 2: my council sent me the little book. I look through

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Speaker 2: the names. I didn't know them, and I wasn't really

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Speaker 2: sure what I was getting, but I ticked someone anyway.

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Speaker 2: As a result, we end up with counsels that tend

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Speaker 2: to disappoint people. I think having a team of people

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Speaker 2: under a common brand and with a common set of

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Speaker 2: beliefs on your counsel could actually restore some of people's

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Speaker 2: trust and hope for what their council can do for them,

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Speaker 2: or in many cases not do, because I would say

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Speaker 2: they're doing too much.

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Speaker 1: Given there's a lot of councils and the fact there's

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Speaker 1: far too many councils in this country and far too

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Speaker 1: many council is. Do you worry about the quality in

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Speaker 1: your presence branding wise, that you go a bit thin

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Speaker 1: on the ground and you might find a few people

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Speaker 1: going rogue on you.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's why I'm calling it an exploratory campaign at

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Speaker 2: this point. If we get people we think are solid,

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Speaker 2: respected in their community, who can stand up and do

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Speaker 2: the business for three years if elected, then we'll go ahead.

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Speaker 2: There's always a chance that we won't and then we'll say, look,

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Speaker 2: we looked at it, but maybe people aren't ready for

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Speaker 2: this yet.

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Speaker 1: At least we try it, all right for enough Nice

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Speaker 1: to talk David Seymour, the act leader.

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