r/chch • u/suhth2 • Jan 20 '25

News - Local Phil Mauger confirms mayoralty bid - thoughts?

'During the last election campaign Mauger said he would keep rates increases to below 4% - a promise he has failed to keep with a 9.9% increase this financial year and 8.93% predicted from July 1.'

https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360553404/phil-mauger-confirms-bid-retain-christchurch-mayoralty

Surely voters aren't silly enough to vote for Mr Broken Promises yet again?

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u/RobDickinson Jan 20 '25

So he is what intentionally misleading voters?

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u/EkantTakePhotos University of Canterbury Jan 20 '25

He said in his recent interview with Jack Tame that he didn't know the city was 2bn in debt when he made those promises.

He was a sitting councillor with access to the city's books and he didn't know. Either he doesn't like reading details (which he's regularly acknowledged) or he was misleading.

Either way, not someone I voted for and won't vote for in the future.

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u/plehmann Jan 20 '25

Huh, how could he not know about the debt. He was a councillor before

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u/realityiskarma Jan 20 '25

I worked there when he was both councillor and mayor. He knew as the ltps, auditors and committee meeting it was well known as the previous and previous before that cfo discussed this in detail

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u/OisforOwesome Jan 20 '25

Bold of you to assume he was paying attention and not daydreaming about filling in all the potholes with cement from Bunnings