Ben Bell new Mayor "of" Gore, Farmer or Pharma?

Watch this one, I think it has a few twists in its tail

Tracey Hicks most likely took his role as Mayor for granted. In 2019 he was elected unopposed. This year in a tight Mayoral contest he has lost to 23yo Ben Bell who seems to be from Tauranga (or Wellington) rather than Gore (he says he has lived in Gore for 18 months) and who definitely thinks that being a Mayor is a job that starts after 5pm as he says that he has a business to run. My question would be if he’s not planning to be a working Mayor but more a promotional one, who exactly is the working Mayor going to be?

I don’t have an answer for that right now but I will note that Ben Bell is not exactly lacking for publicity over the last few years (here, here). As you can see on one of those links he was awarded Youth Wellingtonian of the year in 2016.

Leverage, a digital marketing firm, in Wellington is claiming involvement.

And then there’s this…