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So Len Brown has announced to a packed, well ok there were 100 peo­ple there, includ­ing  erst­while Mayor Dick Hub­bard and wannabe mayor Bruce Hucker. What is strange is that Bruce Hucker and Hub­bard never saw eye to eye on anything.

Len’s big announce­ment has gone down with a cup of cold sick with other left­ies like Matt McCarten. You see Manukau City went to the Royal Com­mis­sion opposed to Maori seats (2.27Mb pdf) on the coun­cil, now all of a sud­den Len Brown, whose own coun­cil doesn’t have Maori seats, has done a flip flop. Stran­g­ley he seems to think that advoc­cat­ing and cam­paign­ing for sep­a­ratist race based seats is some­how inclusive.

How can Len Brown claim to unite when he pro­poses to divide the city by race?

In Manukau City’s sub­mis­sion tot he Royal Com­mis­sion they went out of their way to sug­gest to the Com­mis­sion that Manukau’s method of engage­ment with Maori was supe­rior to other cities and encour­aged them to look at that model. All of a sud­den Len Brown wants to do a flip flop. He can’t have it both ways. He either sup­ports the cre­ation of race based seats or he sup­ports his council’s pre­vi­ous posi­tions of Agree­ments that “recog­nise the Mana Whenua groups as Treaty Part­ners and the guardian­ship role they hold in Manukau. Other coun­cils in the region have dif­fer­ing arrange­ments. The R oyal Com­mis­sion is encour­aged to exam­ine these arrange­ments and con­sider whether there is a model such as described above which would apply to the Greater A uck­land Coun­cil and local councils.”

Cries from the left of a lack of a ref­er­en­dum should be ignored. When Helen Clark set up the Royal Com­mis­sion it was set up as a fait accom­pli, the peo­ple have had their say in sub­mis­sions, and now the Super City will hap­pen. We must how­ever be mind­ful that Len Brown is Labour’s cho­sen can­di­date, he has Labour staffers work­ing in his office and he is still a Labour Party mem­ber, there is no hiod­ing his left-wing cre­den­tials no mat­ter how he tries to spin it.

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The peo­ple who have issued the death threats to Sue Brad­ford are the same ones who did the same to me and included the threat of chuck­ing bricks through my windows.

They are total cow­ards and never fronted to make good on their threats.

How­ever I don’t think that Sue Brad­ford can claim these peo­ple are rep­re­sen­ta­tive of pro-smackers. They are sim­ply loose units and cow­ards to boot. The head brick-chucker/coward is Henk van Hel­mond who also has form in threat­en­ing Dave at Big News.

Whilst death threats aren’t fun, any­thing from these mem­bers of the Angry Dad’s union can be safely ignored.

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Some goose called John Lang­don from the Labour Party dropped this pearler the other day:

“Auck­land has never had an elected Maori coun­cil­lor. Pakeha, appar­ently, just wont vote for a Maori.”

Well that’s very inter­est­ing. So what was John Rangi­hou Awa­tere doing on the coun­cil dur­ing the 1960s for a num­ber of terms?

There have been a num­ber of Maori coun­cil­lors in Auck­land City over the years. But what of right now?

What pray tell is Toa Green­ing and Jami-lee Ross doing on the Manukau City Coun­cil at the moment?

And pray tell, what is Denise Roche doing on the Auck­land City coun­cil now?

And this goose has the temer­ity to then say that Iran is a coun­try that respects Jews because they have a guar­an­teed seat on some council?

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Never let it be said that I don’t give kudos when kudos is warranted.

Trevor Mal­lard has posted on Red Alert a lit­tle post about his con­tin­ued sup­port for inte­gra­tion of pri­vate schools and why he opposes the PPTA in their drive to shut down integration.

The PPTA want to close the door on schools want­ing to integrate.

I think that to leg­is­late to do that would result in a rush while the leg­is­la­tion was processed.  I also think that it is wrong. Pri­vate schools are very cheap on the tax­payer, are needed as part of the net­work in some cities and in some cases are either inno­v­a­tive or ful­fil spe­cific cul­tural needs. Exter­mi­nat­ing them or inte­grated schools might sound great rhetoric but it doesn’t make good pol­icy sense.

Good on Trev for stand­ing up to the teacher unions, he may get some stcik for that though with the Labour cau­cus made up of a whole lot of failed teachers…..including him. Though with posts like that he really is look­ing like real lead­er­ship poten­tial in the face of Goff’s failings.

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Win­ston Ray­mond Peters, 64, unem­ployed of Herne Bay gave an inter­view on Q+A this morn­ing where he said he wouldn’t be stand­ing for the may­oralty of the Super City.

WINSTON     Well I’ve never said I would, I’ve never been inter­viewed by any jour­nal­ist, notwith­stand­ing all the rumours and humbug.

PAUL  Alright, I’m sit­ting here and I’m ask­ing you.

WINSTON     The answer is N O.  Do you want me to put a sign up?  I’ve never ever said I would, I have no inten­tion of do that, and I don’t know why a jour­nal­ist should feel licensed to go and print that nonsense.

PAUL  So no you will not be stand­ing for the Mayor of Auck­land Super City?

WINSTON     For the sec­ond time, and the last time – NO.

Of course we have all seen Win­ston and his silly signs before and we all know what his NO means.

I think with out fear of Gotcha! new legal advi­sors stamp­ing all over me I can call Win­ston Ray­mond Peters, 64, unem­ployed of Herne Bay a men­da­cious, lying, short-arse failure.

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Just as John Banks rose to speak before the thou­sands join­ing him to say farewell to Kashin at Auck­land Zoo today the sun came  came out, mean­while across town Len Brown turned his back on Manukau and announced his bid to be the Super City Mayor amidst the rain and mist and barely 100 left­ist supporters.

Len Brown even quoted George W. Bush when he described him­self as a “a uniter, not a divider” which was of course G. W. Bush’s pitch for the White House.

How bloody thick is that?

Banksie must be beside him­self with glee. Maybe Len’s brain got short cir­cuited when his ticker clapped out.

As for the Maori seats, all Banksie has to do is say that he will not get in the way of due process if Maori want a ref­er­en­dum on them, but he per­son­ally wont sup­port Maori seats, and he wins hands down. You would have thought the left would have learned after Orewa.

On Q+A today Guyon Espiner didn’t give Len Brown a free ride over his claim to sup­port Maori seats point­ing out that Manukau City doesn’t have any so why the big fan of them now?

GUYON         Let’s look at one of those things, the Maori seats, do you sup­port hav­ing sep­a­rate Maori seats on the Super City?

LEN     Yes I do sup­port that, and I think the gov­ern­ment is miss­ing an oppor­tu­nity to really ensure that this bring­ing together is seri­ous, that we are reach­ing out to all of our com­mu­ni­ties, and Maori have a spe­cial and sig­nif­i­cant place in Auck­land, as they do have in New Zealand, it’s recog­nised through our com­mit­ment to the Treaty of Wai­t­angi, it’s recog­nised through statute, it’s recog­nised through our seats in parliament.

GUYON         Well when I read the Royal Com­mis­sion, vol­ume 1, part 4, reports that in 2008 Manukau City Coun­cil rejected the estab­lish­ment of Maori wards.

LEN     We have had an unfor­tu­nate sit­u­a­tion in our city over really the 45 years of time.  The rea­son why we do – what we do in our city is that for our 45 years we have had Maori rep­re­sen­ta­tion around our table, we have two peo­ple of Maori eth­nic back­ground in our table at the moment, one Tainui.

GUYON         But no sep­a­rate Maori wards though.

LEN     But we’ve been able to deliver rep­re­sen­ta­tion to Maori on that basis along with the Treaty of Wai­t­angi commitment.

GUYON         But with­out sep­a­rate Maori wards.

LEN     Guyon what I want to say…

GUYON         Well I’m ask­ing you why you rejected Maori wards.

LEN     Because we had strong Maori rep­re­sen­ta­tion in our Coun­cil at the time.

GUYON         Well don’t you just then prove Rod­ney Hide’s point that we don’t need to have sep­a­rate seats?

LEN     No, because I believe that going for­ward 1.4 mil­lions Auck­lan­ders, I want to see Maori around that table, and I do not believe that we can sat­isfy our require­ments by just hav­ing it under the ward sys­tem in this new struc­ture.  I believe we could deliver it in Manukau.  I think we will really strug­gle in the Auck­land Council.

So, now we know that Len Brown is a hyp­ocrite as well. Mean­while Left-wing polit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor Matt McCarten says John Banks is get­ting dam­aged by his asso­ci­a­tion with local gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Rod­ney Hide.

Rod­ney has prob­a­bly con­sol­i­dated his posi­tion in NZ pol­i­tics for a gen­er­a­tion by tak­ing a prin­ci­pled stance on race based seats that is in line with the major­ity of the pop­u­la­tions views.

Screw the lib­eral elite. There is no way Auck­lan­ders are going to go for the happy, snappy, rappy, danc­ing, pranc­ing, huggy, kissy, kneel­ing, pray­ing, huffy, puffy, hyp­ocrite candidate.

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Is any­one else bemused by the irony of a boxer who makes his liv­ing by smack­ing the crap out of all com­ers is sud­denly the poster bot for the anti-smacking brigade?

This is actu­ally not funny. It remains legal for him to punch peo­ple in the ring but par­ents can’t smack a child on the bum at all.

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Win­ston Ray­mond Peters, 64, unem­ployed of Herne Bay reck­ons his party is on the come­back trail. This is fan­tas­tic news as I would like noth­ing bet­ter than to focus on him for the next election.

Let’s face it Labour aren’t going any­where so to have Win­ston announc­ing he is going to make a come­back is great.

He launched into a tirade about all sorts of things and as per usual it included race-baiting, den­i­gra­tion and ridicule.

He even called some of John Key’s ini­tia­tives piti­ful stunts. He of course ignores his own piti­ful stunts. He also ignores his party’s stolen $158,000 which has never been paid back and the con­stant and inces­sant lying to cover up all sorts of shenan­gins with his funding.

Yes I wel­come his come­back if only for the extreme mirth it will pro­vide us all. David and I will put these up all over the coun­try to remind vot­ers just exactly what Win­ston Ray­mond Peters, 64, unem­ployed of Herne Bay is all about.

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This is from X-Factor in the UK. If I didn’t man­age my hair this is what it would look like, I can’t sing like this though.

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Here are the first batch of entries in the Clown of Camp­bells Bay Pho­to­shop competition.

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I love this song.

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One of my con­trib­u­tors has sug­gested a pho­to­shop competition.

Take this photo and pho­to­shop it to show some­thing on The Clown’s screen other than the North Shore City Coun­cil web­site. Inci­den­tally is there any­one else out there sur­prised that vast amounts of ratepay­ers money have been spent on a web­site that will exist for only one year?

Any­way, send them in via email to tipline@gotcha.co.nz and I’ll post a gallery of them.

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North Shore City has launched a new web­site and whad­dya know look who reads Gotcha!.

Clown of Campbell’s Bay read­ing Gotcha!

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