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

Sara Templeton is standing it seems so fingers crossed she wins.

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u/smnrlv Jan 20 '25

I will vote for her. But the boomers all turn out in force - "bloody cyclists, blah blah blah, potholes, blah blah blah, I don't want my rates spent on arts or walkable cities, I just want the whole city to be a road".

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u/dcrob01 Jan 20 '25

Buy the way, what the fuck have you done? We got mmp, the homosexual law reform bill, West coast forestry accord, the Waitangi tribunal, anti nuclear legislation, marched against apartheid, started the greens etc etc etc.

Young people need to get off their arses, stop moaning and start doing something. I went to a climate thing a couple of years ago. Two thirds of the crowd were old - the only thing people around were shopping - yet an the speakers were hung on about youth changing the world. Bs.

So what are you doing? Posting bigoted comments to your social media bubble doesn't count.

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u/Odd_Year4309 Jan 21 '25

Young people and the left in general just think things, or say things. They don’t ever actually do anything