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2022 Council vote numbers – looking forward to a positive term

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DCC Election result with 90% votes counted:

This result is based upon the counting of approximately 90% of the returned voting papers. The progress result does not include some special votes and voting papers returned today that are still in transit to the processing centre. The outcome … Continue reading

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Comprehensive Research on the ‘Benefits’ of our Stadium

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How long must Dunedin suffer its DCC Companies?

DCC Council Companies to remain in the too-hard-basket? Seven years. It has been seven years since our Dunedin Council-controlled Companies have provided us with a dividend from profits.  Many decades of many millions invested in our Council Companies have given … Continue reading

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Kiwi Voice Mayoral Candidate Interview

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Thefts of Election Signage and Tandem Trailer

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

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After more than a year of sending graph data to the ODT…

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

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Labour is trying to confiscate our biggest local Asset

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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Mayoral Candidate interview – Kiwi Voice 26 minutes

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Labour Political Party Puppets

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

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ODT ‘reporter’ Grant Miller continues his smear campaign today

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

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A combative interview that still brings out real DCC issues finally, despite being too long. [1hour 38 minutes]

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UNSUSTAINABLE $1million PER WEEK DCC INTEREST-ONLY ON SKYROCKETING DEBT

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

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Smear set-up exposed

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

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A well-timed ODT smear,

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

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Who do I think would be a good candidate?

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

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Only the financially illiterate can do this:

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

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Stop 3Waters confiscation + 2 minutes of Mayoral Debate

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ODT unfavourable reporting as voting papers posted out.

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

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ODT favourable reporting

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

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