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Mandy Mayhem Bullock and her mate, Anne Marie
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Mandy Mayhem Bullock and her mate, Anne Marie

Another hit job, not me but Lee

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Richard Seager
Sep 21, 2022
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Andrew Whiley said to me at Opoho that this was the dirtiest campaign that he’d been involved in. It’s certainly the dirtiest one that I’ve been involved in. There are copious libels up on social media of course from trolls and bots, the most toxic parties to that, in my view, are in this order. Labour, Greens, National/ACT with Labour far out in front. As the central Government would seem to be involved this is very, very far from being a democratic election.

But in Dunedin for the reasons that Aaron and Marie Laufiso are illiberal Green candidates, and maybe that the Council has an interest in Aaron remaining there, those of us with more liberal policies are being targeted by those who are trying to hitch into council on Aaron’s coattails. And it will probably surprise some of you but Lee is a lot more liberal than Aaron and he’s also a lot more green than Aaron.

Last night Aaron guffawed (he does this a lot) at David Milne’s (also a lot more green than Aaron and a Mayoral candidate…

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