Author Archives: Lee Vandervis

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STOLEN TANDEM TRANSPORTER TRAILER with 2.4m double-sided election signage attached on scaffolding tube at night-time from 35 Portsmouth drive outside NZ Couriers Depot. Trailer tow-ball was padlocked. Z537N number plate likely changed by now. Distinguishing features include black strong scaf-tube … Continue reading →

Good to see the ODT putting DCC debt facts on the front page and including the Council meeting video in which Mayor Hawkins accuses me of being rude.Not included were important details on my ‘pushed over’ placard – that DCC … Continue reading →

3 Waters is actually 3 Kinds of Pipes that we in Dunedin have all long paid for, as Hilary Calvert writes: Let’s ask the right questions now for those communities struggling for healthy water, writes Hilary Calvert. Otago towns, the pipes … Continue reading →

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Labour Political Party Puppets Pledge on Dunedin City Council? Ever wondered why Council Candidates boosted on to the DCC by Labour vote as a block with central government policy on major issues like MP Mahuta’s 3 Waters proposed confiscation of … Continue reading →

falsely claiming that I “publicly highlighted the pensioner’s home address details” referring to a Ms Parsons who has repeatedly interrupted my campaign speeches and pushed my DCC Group Debt graph signage to the floor at a public Mayoralty meeting. Miller … Continue reading →

The ODT don’t want you to know that DCC Group Debt has gone up by $100 million every year under Hawkins and is planned to keep going!, with Dunedin citizens having to pay $1million per week in interest-only to overseas … Continue reading →

Rival Mayoral candidate Mandy Mayhem and 80 year old ‘woman’ turns out to be Ms Parsons, Mayhem’s Mayoral nominator.

who have long refused to print my revealing DCC Debt graph. Rival Mayoral Candidate Mandy Mahem asked “if Cr. Vandervis was picking on a little old lady?” The answer is that I simply told this seated serial interrupter in the … Continue reading →

I am getting thIs request regularly now, so below is the list of those I have met and been impressed by: Jules Radich is still my favourite Councillor [despite going soft on stopping 3 Waters Government/Iwi confiscation], also Jim O’Malley, … Continue reading →

Strange that the big numbers in Dunedin’s $300 million annual DCC spend of our money don’t seem to register with most candidates. A largely left-leaning audience at Opoho Church last night were lapping up Mayor Hawkins’ claims to have been … Continue reading →

What do you do when you’re branded? Losing the Supreme Court attempt to clear my name, or being upfront about my personal views was always going to weaken my Mayoral chances, but I believe it had to be done and … Continue reading →

of the mood of the full Burns Hall Ratepayer’s Mayoralty meeting last night gelled with my impressions as seen from the stage. https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/cheers-vandervis-hawkins-absent-forum?fbclid=IwAR3BKPpGNnTBYU1eL8JGURrWlqBUHFiHg-vJomAF_KE5-91xcPF_-B15MC0

I am proud to have debated against so much wasteful debt-funded spending by the Hawkins’ Council, and against the erosion of Democracy with creeping co-governance, even if I was often the only one daring to vote against. The ODT reporter’s … Continue reading →

I am adding ‘in Dunedin Ownership’ to accessible posters to make my opposition to the government/Iwi attempted theft of Dunedin’s 3Waters [$3 BILLION drinking, drainage and waste-water] assets clear.

• Campaign signage for Dunedin candidate Lee Vandervis includes a nod to Hollywood and a photo of the South Seas Exhibition, which Dunedin hosted in 1925-26. The Otago Daily Times asked Cr Vandervis what this imagery signified. The Hollywood-style font is a … Continue reading →

In yesterday’s public Council meeting, Cr. Laufiso [who has admitted being a Communist in previous meetings] claimed during item 15 Dunedin Housing Plan “This is Maori land”. She went on say that we need to recognise 182 years of occupation … Continue reading →