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Speaker 1: Well, listen, we need to talk about why we're persisting

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Speaker 1: with having so many local body politicians. We clearly have

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Speaker 1: too many positions, don't we. I mean, just look at

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Speaker 1: how many people are winning their seats at the moment

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Speaker 1: the elections are this weekend. Look at how many people

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Speaker 1: are winning their seats without any elections, without any without

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Speaker 1: anybody standing against them in the elections, with more than

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Speaker 1: two hundred. That's one in every seven council races. So

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Speaker 1: Hodanui already has its mayor even though the elections are

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Speaker 1: this weekend. It's Marie Black, no one's standing against her.

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Speaker 1: Munaw'tu already has its mayor, Michael Ford, no one standing

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Speaker 1: against him. There are more than eighty councilors who are

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Speaker 1: already elected across the country. There are several on the

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Speaker 1: Southland Regional Council already elected Lower Hut Southland or Taranga, Buller, Stratford,

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Speaker 1: Marlborough councils. Two of Auckland's councils already elected unopposed, three

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Speaker 1: of Christ churches. There are also empty seats that no

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Speaker 1: one wants to fill in community boards in the Routrua Lakes,

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Speaker 1: New Plymouth, kaituk Air Clifton, as well rural Hastings, hand

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Speaker 1: Miss Springs, Twizel, and Matoda. What that tells you is

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Speaker 1: you have more positions to fill than you have people

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Speaker 1: who want to fill those positions. Now, just have a

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Speaker 1: look at your voting will please have a look at

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Speaker 1: your voting papers and vote if you can. I voted

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Speaker 1: in Auckland already, right. I had one vote for mayor,

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Speaker 1: I had one vote for council, and then I had

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Speaker 1: up to seven votes for my local board. I didn't

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Speaker 1: vote seven times for my local I didn't know who

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Speaker 1: all of those people were. I knew about five of them,

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Speaker 1: and at least two of them I knew for bad reasons,

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Speaker 1: so I didn't want to vote for them. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think we're asking We clearly are asking too much.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, in Auckland, we have one hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventy two local board politicians by the end of

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Speaker 1: this process, and I'm not even counting the local licensing Board.

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Speaker 1: The Licensing Trust members one hundred and seventy two, the

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Speaker 1: most junior of which which is the ward counselors, get

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Speaker 1: paid more than fifty four thousand dollars each. Now, I

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Speaker 1: think looking at all of this. We are well overdue

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Speaker 1: tipping all of this up and changing it and massively

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Speaker 1: reducing the number of people that were paying to do

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Speaker 1: probably not a lot. For more from hither Duplessy Allen Drive,

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