Waitakere Mayor Bob Harvey has a penchant for putting both feet in his mouth and making an arse of himself.
Today is no exception with him bleating to the Western Leader (isn’t that an oxymoron?) that he isn’t paid enough.
“I consider myself grossly underpaid for the work I do 24 hours, seven days a week,” he says.
“MPs get a lifetime pension when they retire, yet when I finish I won’t get a thing, even though I’ve done 16 years in local government. It’s grossly unfair.”
Oh Boo-fucking-Hoo Bob, cry me a river of tears.
Here’s a thought why don’t you ditch the mayoral chains, the job disappears in about 18 months anyway, and go find a job in the real world instead of sucking off the ratepayers tit in your ivory tower built at great expense.
Banksie must be grinning from ear to ear today. Any contender against Banksie for the Lord Mayor role seems to seems to want to spike their own guns before the get go. The Cock from Campbells, Andrew Williams (still waiting for the court date Andy) self destructed long ago, Mayor Len Brown, though competent is only a heartbeat away from a by-election, Bob just blew both feet off and is a Labour liability right now. That pretty much clears the decks of any serious contender.
Yizard is said to be contemplating standing but that’d be the hardest she has thought about anything for a while.
