The Herald has an article on Albany and the candidates. Since it is in today’s Herald I will outline succinctly why I am standing.
I am a small ‘c’ conservative that wants to see local government stick to local government issues, and not get involved in other issues like social welfare, social engineering and promoting ethnic diversity. Plenty of different nationals live in Auckland and most of them don’t require hand outs. Lets keep it this way.
The campaign in Albany is a practice run for the general election, where telling the truth about a candidate is really important, especially when the candidate is liberal with the truth, wrong or has terrible personal ethics. A case in point is Andrew Williams who has put in a nomination in Albany purely for insurance sake as he will never in a month of Sunday’s get elected as mayor.
Far from being a side-show, I am deadly serious in making sure that Andrew Williams is not elected in Albany.
Public meetings were a pleasure for Mr Williams at the last elections. He used them as a platform to attack wasteful spending and, in particular, the proposal of Waitakere Mayor Bob Harvey and the Infratil company to start commercial flights out of Whenuapai Air Base.
He triumphed, and many of Mr Harvey’s critics on the shores of the upper harbour are now lumped in with East Coast Bays folk who also would have been in the flight path.
Andrew Williams flip-flopped over Whenuapai, and then when elected embarked on perhaps the most wasteful spending ever seen in North Shore, including the spending of extra millions deciding on whether a pool should be sited in one place or another just 200 meters away. Now that the airport is a dead issue so should Andrew Willaims. Don’t forget the ratepayers money he literally widdled away against the trees of Hurstmere Road. Public meetings are not going to be fun for Andrew Williams this year. I am going to hold him to account plus any other candidate that either supported and enabled his drunken rampage through the ratepayers pockets or any new candidate that makes grandiose promises of spending of ratepayers cash.
I will explain my policies in depth over the coming days, but rest assured they will not be like any others, the old ways are dead and it is time for some new thinking. You won’t hear from me any support for “modest rates increases”, I will be campaigning for rates reductions and I will explain how that can be achieved.
Vote Slater - Albany - Auckland - Keeping the Buggers Honest
