Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Keith Johnson to stand for Wellington Mayor 2013

OLD WAR HORSE IN LINE-UP OF MAYORS It seems that the starters for the forthcoming October 2013 Local Body Election are already being unloaded from the horse boxes and led to the Birdcage. Among them are two fine fillies, the chestnut mayor Celia Wade-Brown and the palomino blonde Jo Coughlan. It seems that a third, my old friend Annette King, has been scratched, see: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/8388146/Coughlan-ponders-bid-to-unseat-Wade-Brown I am not in any personal sense ‘against’ either Celia or Jo but I have long argued that insufficient commitment is being made by Councillors to fairness, accountability, economy and good governance. I’ll be there from the starting line-up as a half-knackered first-lap pacemaker plodder to keep everyone honest.