In 2010 I created following chaos and mayhem:
- told the truth repeatedly about Andrew Williams, the Clown of Campbells Bay. This resulted in his unemployment from anything to do with local body governance in Auckland.
- made Len Brown tell us something he said he would never reveal. The only pity was the lying, deceit and interference by officials thwarting the Ombudsmen for so long. In the end Len Brown rewarded the main obstruction, Leigh Auton, by giving him a cushy board appointment despite him robbing rate-payers of a nice 6 figure redundancy package.
- got charged with 10 counts of breaching name suppression and convicted of 9. In the process I made the government have a discussion and make changes with the name suppression laws in this country.
- appeared on 60 minutes and in every news outlet in New Zealand. This show was one of the top 5 shows for the year, both in ratings for 60 minutes and also with online views (20541 views so far).
- Got Simon Power‘s nickname, FIGJAM, written into case law.
- had someone write a song about Name Suppression.
- created an urban myth about Jim Anderton and his Earthquake statement.
- Uploaded a video to Youtube which then made the news and went on to have more than 440,000 views.
- made Len Brown slap himself silly.
- made Mangrove throw a hissy fit in a Sunday paper.
- outed veteran Maori troughers Te Reo Marama and Shane Bradbrook. They have since had all their funding cut to nothing.
- appeared at the Maori Affairs select committee to talk about Maori troughers ripping off the taxpayer.
- screwed up a story about Chris Carter, but apologised for it.
- rooted up Veuve Clicquot and NBR, making Barry Colman cough an extra $7000 in piss. BTW when is the party you slack cow???
- scared Michele Hewitson into a soft story with my “dead eyes”.
- Hijacked the Qantas Media Awards best Blog awards by holding the NZ Bloggers Union and Air New Zealand Blog Awards…real awards voted on by blogging judges.
- Outed Len Brown for touting for donations using council email. This was a story that Bernard Orsman refused to cover saying there was no evidence of it despite me publishing a full copy of the email.
- Called time on a content thief, Rich Henry.
- Made National Party president, Peter Goodfellow have his own extreme makeover after I compared him to Ned Flanders. Thousands of dollars of botox and a moustache trim, eye brow pluck and a new hair cut, he now thinks he is okalee-dokaly.
- Upset Mangrove on 7 Days
- It was the blog’s 5th birthday
- had more than 3 million page views and over 1,200,000 visits to my website.
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