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Mouthing Maori, money and Monet

Tēnā Koe CEO Graham, Please accept this letter as a formal complaint against Cr Lee Vandervis under the Dunedin City Council Code of Conduct. The Councillor’s emailed letter, (dated Thursday, 12 /10 / 2023, attached below, Page 4-4, labelled Email … Continue reading

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Tribalism unmasked and explained

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/lord-hannan-equality-the-treaty-and-imported-problems

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DCC CEO Graham sought legal process opinion as follows:

 28 November 2023 Dunedin City Council  Chief Executive Officer/Tumu Whakarae  Sandy Graham  Sandy.Graham@dcc.govt.nz   Dear Sandy  Notice of motion  1 You have requested legal advice on the notice of motion promoted by Councillor Laufiso, dated 20 November 2023. In particular you … Continue reading

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Virtue-signalling focus on just one Israel/Palestine/Hamas of the many overseas Countries’ wars raging round the world currently; Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Russia/Ukraine.

It appears that Mayor Radich has approved the addition of the Palestinian flag Notice of Motion being added to tomorrow’s DCC full Council agenda, and is too busy in China Sister City sight-seeing to respond to my email as below, … Continue reading

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Some of my reasons for voting against further lowering of the voting age to 16 in Local Body Elections:

[this from the Guardian newspaper] This is the new Act: Electoral (Lowering Voting Age for Local Elections and Polls) Legislation Bill General policy statement The Electoral (Lowering Voting Age for Local Elections and Polls) Legislation Bill (the Bill) is an omnibus … Continue reading

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No elected representative or DCC staff member has responded to any of the information sent to them last week as below:

From: Lee Vandervis <lee@vandervision.co.nz>Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023 at 10:33 PMTo: Lynne Adamson <Lynne.Adamson@dcc.govt.nz>, Council 2022-2025 (Elected Members) <council.2022-2025@dcc.govt.nz>, Sandy Graham <Sandy.Graham@dcc.govt.nz>, Executive Leadership Team (ELT) <elt@dcc.govt.nz>, Robert West <Robert.West@dcc.govt.nz>Subject: Re: Council Agenda Dear All, Item 21. Climate change significant … Continue reading

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Natural Immunity far more effective against Covid

Check out this up-to-date big peer-reviewed mRNA data ex Israel. As well as the widely coerced mRNA vaccines having serious side-effects including death from myocarditis, it has now been proven that Natural Immunity has been far better than any mRNA … Continue reading

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Our Prime Minister says “People made their own choices”

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1014406279577003

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We are paying $1,000,000 per week in interest.

The DCC is now paying an Unsustainable $1,000,000 per week interest on our BILLION$ DCC group debt and nobody even talks about how to pay it back or how we can keep paying the interest!

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Is there any Hope for New Zealand?

CHRIS TROTTER: Make or Break The following post was written in January 2022. What sounded somewhat hysterical just 18 months now sounds utterly plausible. He Puapua threatens to do to New Zealand’s Right what Rogernomics did to its Left. IN … Continue reading

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Dave Witherow used to be the most enlightening columnist the ODT ever published, until he became too enlightening…

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/dave-witherow-retrospect

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Paul Brennan Radio Interview

https://realitycheck.radio/cr-lee-vandervis-on-dunedin-city-councils-debt/

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central government at it again…

Just so that everybody [fluent in te reo and NZ sign language] knows how to drive on NZ roads, we now have bi-lingual road signage being forced upon us. None of the objections or difficulties I noted as below were … Continue reading

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Car-cancelling Council shagging Dunedin Future Transport

Hawkin’s Council hangover continues with another $146,000,000+ extra debt this year, much of it funding ‘Shaping Dunedin Future Transport’, which I see as shagging Dunedin Future Transport, driving cars out of our city, slowing traffic and making parking even more … Continue reading

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We have long been falling behind other NZ Cities

Dunedin is over-reliant on Central Government funded institutions like the Hospital and the University. Especially as Government funding tends to go to marginal Parliamentary seats up north…

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the latest DCC Debt Graph

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DCC Debt Graph and budgeted projection 10 years ago

See next post above for what has actually happened after the big Stadium debt blow-out, in the latest DCC debt graph.

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ANZAC DAY Speech Brighton Town Hall 25.04/23

War – what it is good for? – absolutely nothin’. So sang Edwin Starr in the 1970s #1 hit single which added to pressure on the US Government to withdraw its forces from Vietnam. But the simple appeal of the … Continue reading

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Dunedin’s Water distribution systems still being taken by central government and misrepresented despite all objections

60 of 67 Councils voted to opt out of the 3 Waters takeover when this Labour government misled us into thinking we had a choice. Now 10 regional entities instead of the earlier tribal 4, still with 50% Maori governance, … Continue reading

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It is getting harder to ignore media mandates and suppression of dissent

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