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Craig Lord, The Man Ignored | Newsroom

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The Oakland mayoral election is in its final week and no clear leader has emerged yet. It’s the nature of politics for candidates to complain about media coverage, but as Mark Jennings writes, one candidate may have an opinion.

In the last Auckland mayoral election, Craig Lord came third. Lorde he received nearly 30,000 votes. Chloe Swarbrick, the green MP, saw his vote numbers dwindle in the 2016 mayoral election and is now on the rise in his political career, but what largely happened? Basically, the media ignores him. He struggles to get mentioned in news stories that include other candidates. His policy proposals have received little scrutiny. Out of necessity, his social media was his main and almost his only campaign tool.

Lord is the least “progressive” of the four frontrunners. He rejects the idea of ​​co-government by taking the fairly simple position that he doesn’t believe in race-based policies. We believe that having a carbon emission reduction strategy is pointless. He also believes the demand for bike paths is exaggerated.

That last point saw him booed Thursday night Newsroom/Auckland University Debate Makes Me Mayorthe audience included cycling enthusiasts.

Rhodes then said: You can win or do much better when you’re in front of a group of seniors or small community-led debates. “

Current polls show Lorde is unlikely to challenge top contenders Epheso Collins and Wayne Brown, but may overhaul No. 3 Bib Beck.

Lorde could also influence Brown’s chances of winning, and together with Beck he splits the center-right vote. There is no love lost between two men.

After the debate, Lord, described by Today FM host Lloyd Burr, who chaired a panel of analysts, as a “convict politician,” looked tired, perhaps reflecting the length of the campaign. He seemed more energetic than his opponent.

To be fair, Collins’ team revealed that he was unwell earlier in the day.

Collins, an incumbent Auckland City Councilman, showed his political experience during the debate and was unanimously declared the winner by the panel. It wasn’t a dynamic performance, but he avoided gaffes and looked polished and prepared. He also took the opportunity to refute Brown’s mantra that councils are futile and inefficient.

Collins also politely criticized Brown for not participating in this week’s tour of the CRL, a subway link that greatly improves travel time and frequency for rail commuters.

Brown has always criticized CRL’s undisclosed cost overruns. “It’s never good news when they can’t tell you,” he told the audience. [road] cones and debris.

Engineer Brown has been adamant throughout the campaign about his ability to solve infrastructure problems. He was responsible for restoring power to the CBD and building Auckland’s hospitals on time and on budget after his six-week outage in 1998. But there’s something so unconstructed about the former Northland mayor that when he answered a question from moderator Tim Murphy about contacting groups that don’t normally vote in local elections, he found himself thin ice. I noticed that it was covered with

In what one audience member described as a “well-meaning racist” moment, Brown explained that he liked talking to members of the Chinese and Indian communities.

Murphy also asked each candidate to name a former mayor they admired or respected.

Collins named Bob Harvey (Waitakere City 1992-2010). Lord and Brown both named “Robbie” (Sir Dove Meyer Robinson – City of Auckland 1959-1965 and he 1968-1980). Viv Beck chose former Wellington Mayor Kelly Prendergast (from 2001 until he was in 2010).

Beck’s performance was perhaps the biggest puzzle of the night. When she wasn’t responding, she placed the microphone on a nearby stool, seemingly muting it. She clearly had no intention of debating or interfering with the other candidates.

Her suggestion that the mayor-elect should have an inclusive leadership style and that Auckland should be a more “cohesive” place to live resonated with the audience.

Presumably Beck was thrown out by an early question asking to clarify the status of unpaid bills for her campaign work, as she had promised at a staff forum a week earlier. Asked if the matter would be resolved before the election, Beck hesitated and replied that she was not sure.

After the debate, STUFF’s Todd Neal asked Beck if he intended to stay in the race until Election Day on October 8. Her reaction was ambiguous. “I’ll rate it as it goes. I don’t know. The reality is I’m here and I’m getting good feedback. I think the campaign is in flux.”



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