I wasn’t, then I was, then I wasn’t, then Andrew wasn’t and now I’m not again. Poor Matt McCarten, not only does he have a battle with cancer, but he is probably fighting off legions of Andrew Williams emails and txts taking umbrage at being called a fraud for his stance in the mayoral campaign. Now the media are hassling him for his on again off again endorsement policy.
Left wing union leader Matt McCarten has performed a triple flip flop over endorsing a candidate for Auckland Council’s Albany ward.
McCarten formed the website supercitypicks.com to help voters select a left-leaning Auckland Council in the upcoming local body elections. …
But yesterday McCarten withdrew his support for Williams entirely.
“Originally I thought progressives should support Andrew Williams. But my leftist and even centrist mates gave me a biff on two fronts,” McCarten wrote.
“That he’s made his city a laughing stock and he’s totally self absorbed and even his own allies have deserted him. The other reason is that he knows he had no chance to win as mayor and is deliberately drawing votes away from the only other candidate Len Brown who can beat John Banks.
“Privately he claims to support Brown, yet is helping Banks by not telling voters his real position. On that basis he’s a fraud and shouldn’t be supported by progressives.”
McCarten said Slater was “the only other candidate I know in that ward with any chance of winning”. He said the blogger was right of politics but “has a social conscience, does volunteer work and has a good brain”.
Since then Andrew Williams has attacked me again from his Facebook page, with an extremely defamatory post. All Andrew Williams does these days is spray all over Facebook.
From McCarten’s withdrawal of support I’d say that Len Brown’s team have done the numbers and they have realised that their cosy deal with Andrew Williams has in fact cost them big time, especially on the North Shore. But worse they have realised that while it is costing Len Brown support in the Mayoral campaign, Andrew Williams is a political corpse in Albany and so they no longer have to honour their deal for the Deputy Mayoralty. So the word has gone out to their media patsies and commentators to “Get Williams” in a last ditch attempt to shore up Len’s flagging support.
The turn out appears low and Len Brown is needing a massive and impossible turnout in South Auckland to win. They have to spike Williams, the best way to spike Williams to to make it appear he can’t win.
Len Brown’s pact with the Clown of Campbells Bay appears to be back-firing in the last days of the campaign.
For what its worth, I know where Matt stands, and his endorsement or otherwise matters not to me, but more to others. Matt is still a mate no matter what his handlers want him to say or not say.
Meanwhile another nasty smear that Andrew Williams has been spreading via email and again by Facebook is the attacks against Gary Holmes and Chris Darby.
Today we have seen that little smear totally refuted and Williams challenged to put up or shut up. He doesn’t of course, nor can he, because he has simply lied utterly.
I even had one of William’s flunkies trying to shop the allegations to me. Allegations that have been totally refuted by the North Harbour Business Association.
Mr Holmes says the allegations are “categorically untrue and I refute those suggestions totally.
“As reported on the association’s website, and as NHBA chairman Graham Boult has confirmed, we agreed to part ways amicably after a divergence of views on processes and the way forward.”
Mr Boult confirmed Mr Holmes’ comments when contacted by the North Shore Times.
We are seeing that everything I have said about Andrew Williams for the past two years has been true, that his excuses and obfuscations were simply a charade, and now the real Andrew Williams, desperate, drunk and nasty, is showing himself for the voters of Albany.
Fortunately there is a way to stop Andrew Williams, Vote for Cameron Slater in Albany Ward, and rid yourself of the Clown of Campbells Bay.
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