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Speaker 1: Heather, do for see Ellen Yea, the filming through an

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Speaker 1: open window from a public place is not an offense,

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Speaker 1: do you actually, Stu, thank you for that. We will

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Speaker 1: come back to that. Finally got a statement from the

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Speaker 1: police on it. Seventeen past five. Now, after months of speculation,

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Speaker 1: Desley Simpson has finally revealed that she's not running for

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Speaker 1: Auckland's man and she's with us now, Hey.

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Speaker 2: Desley, Hello, Heather, how are you Dearsley?

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Speaker 1: That's the biggest teas and the longest teas in the

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Speaker 1: history of mayoral races, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: I didn't mean a tease, but it took a bit

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Speaker 2: of thinking, Heather, it really did.

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Speaker 1: Or did it take a long time to negotiate this

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Speaker 1: with Wayne about both?

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Speaker 2: A bit of both?

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Speaker 1: What did you get by him? No?

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Speaker 2: I believe it's the right thing to do for Auckland, Heather.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you've got to put Auckland first and not yourself.

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Speaker 2: And the mayor has really delivered this term some very

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Speaker 2: big changes for Auckland and still has more to come.

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Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, Yes, Look, he's

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Speaker 2: a bit of a rough diamond, more rough than diamond,

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Speaker 2: and I'm probably more diamond than rough. But I really

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Speaker 2: support the initiatives he's put putting and has put together

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Speaker 2: to benefit Auckland. I mean, look at the future Fund. Okay,

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Speaker 2: it's going to do with one hundred million for us

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Speaker 2: next year, you know, more income.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I take, I take the point, and I

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Speaker 1: think the point that you look. I have come to realize,

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Speaker 1: actually he stands a reasonable chance of being re elected

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Speaker 1: because actually I suspect that a lot of voters will

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Speaker 1: be reasonably pleased with what he's done. What would you say, Well.

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Speaker 2: I think so, As I said, it'll be interesting to

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Speaker 2: speak more with you as the weeks ago come closer

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Speaker 2: to the election about the outcomes that we've achieved this term.

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Speaker 2: But you know, just for one thing, financially, you know,

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Speaker 2: he's put some pretty significant targets together for us around

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Speaker 2: saving money. I chair that committee, and we've exceeded the

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Speaker 2: savings target. I think the figures are in excess of

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Speaker 2: four hundred million over over three years. So there have

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Speaker 2: been savings. There's been more ways and deliverables for more

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Speaker 2: income to Auckland, and the sorts of things that have

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Speaker 2: annoyed Auckland is for a long time the content delivering

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Speaker 2: things that.

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Speaker 1: Come on, you can't be ready, you can't be in

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Speaker 1: campaign mode already. Tell me. I want to know now

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Speaker 1: what you got out of him in those negotiations.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't for much. What I got out of him.

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Speaker 2: It was about understanding what he wanted to deliver in

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Speaker 2: the next three years and really understanding that. And I

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Speaker 2: absolutely share those objectives. And it shouldn't be about you know,

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Speaker 2: one person or another person. We always need to focus

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Speaker 2: on Auckland, putting Auckland's first and actually making it a

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Speaker 2: better place. And that's what I'm here to do. And

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Speaker 2: so I'm standing as a councilor for ORAQ again. I've

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Speaker 2: done it before. I love my community and I'm very

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Speaker 2: happy with my decision.

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Speaker 1: Good luck of the Daisily. Thank you for your time,

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Speaker 1: really appreciated. Desley Simpson, Deputy Mayor of Auckland. For more

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