Michael Williams

In 2010, this blog was merciless at exposing the outrageous behaviour of Andrew Williams, whose late night antics included thumping an ambulance officer, pissing on his own council building, late night phone messages and text messages to various political leaders and more. It was almost certainly the confluence of a nasty man’s ego mixed with suspected grog imbibing causing tyrannical behaviour in high office.

As a result, Andrew Williams earned a number of nicknames on this blog, and in wider Auckland politics, including the Clown of Campbell’s Bay, the Cock of the Shore, and the Cock from Campbell’s Bay.

Ditto with Caesar Michael Williams, whose boozy bullying behaviour is a disgrace to the office he holds on the Howick local board.

Today, in National Party circles, we have also witnessed the confluence of a nasty man’s ego mixed with grog, causing tyrannical behaviour in high office. To recap, we have learned that:

Aaron Gilmore failed to attend a National Party dinner, and instead skived off with mates to get quietly boozed away from the members who helped select him onto the National list

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Last night, at the Howick Local Board meeting, the following motion of no confidence in Michael Williams was passed.

(a) That the Howick Local Board expresses no confidence in the chairmanship of Michael Williams as a result of his criminal conviction on 22nd February 2013.

Unbelievably though the convicted drunk driver remains as the local board chair after members refused to request he resign in a subsequent motion.

It is clear now though that the Howick Local Board is dysfunctional and Michael Williams is a chairman in name only with the board having lost confidence in him.  Read more »

Len Brown is cruising to reelection and turning Auckland into a city of train using slum apartment dwellers. He is being aided and abetted by the National Party, who are too useless to do anything about local government elections, even when they come around every three years and everyone knows they are coming around.

This is part of an email to Labour activists in Auckland. Similar messages have been sent to Labour activists in other parts of the country.

City Vision Local Government Planning session – Saturday 9th March from 1pm

City Vision has been running a series of workshops for progressive candidates across the Auckland region as preparation for the Auckland local government elections on 12 October 2013.

The focus of the March workshop is building and developing your local campaign team.  At the end of this workshop you will be able to form and develop an effective team to support you and your fellow candidates in your election campaign.  There will be a fourth workshop in early July to help you to maximise the impact of your personal election profile document and your materials for use in the election.  For more information contact Gwen Shaw on cityvision.org.nz@gmail.com.

When: Saturday 9 March, 1pm-4pm
Where: St Peter’s Church, 184 Onehunga Mall, cnr Church St

It would be really helpful if you could confirm your attendance to cityvision.org.nz@gmail.com as we are providing afternoon tea.

Look forward to seeing you there.

So Labour are organised, what is National up to? Or C&R?  Read more »

In around 7 months, NZ will be in the thick of local body elections, the most important for the Auckland Council.

At this stage, there isn’t a declared centre-right candidate to take on Len Brown, though the rumour mill is running overtime on a couple of names.

However, Len for know is very much in the box seat, which is why Auckland needs a strong centre-right council to hold him to account.

The centre-right in Auckland Region is normally represented by the Citizens and Ratepayers ticket, who have historically done well on the former Auckland Regional Council and the old Auckland City Council.

Since the 2010 elections, when C&R did poorly in the first ever supercity elections, there has been a rebrand by C&R’s executive board and National Party hacks Alastair Bell and Mark Thomas, to try and refresh their image. But while the colours and names have changed, their political fortunes have not.  The new C&R, now known as Communities and Residents, has barely registered in the media over the last year. The C&R caucus is badly divided, and their board ineffective. Wags have said they should have renamed themselves Catastrophe & Ruin instead.

National has all but washed their hands of C&R in the elections this year, its caucus refusing to make available any organisation to the adrift group, instead encouraging individuals to participate if they feel like it. Candidate selections that were supposed to take place in November have been deferred and deferred as people go cold on standing for an organisation heading for defeat. Big fundraising plans have turned to dust and instead, a big levy is likely to be imposed on the hapless cannon fodder that stand.  Read more »

Caesar Michael Williams has today plead guilty to drink driving with a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit:

HOWICK Local Board chairman Michael Williams has been convicted of drink-driving after pleading guilty to the charge when appearing in the Auckland District Court today.

The 47-year-old was initially due to appear at a defended hearing in the Manukau District Court on March 1 charged with driving with excess breath alcohol and refusing to accompany a police officer.

His lawyer, Karen Harding, told the court her client’s defence included the fact the incident “ended up being on private property”, and that once that was resolved with police the second charged was dropped.  Read more »

It is all on again in Howick, Michael Williams is refusing to step aside while he faces drink driving charges. The move comes after his attempted putsch against Adele White failed after a large public gathering openly mocked his attempt.

AN ATTEMPT to have Michael Williams take a leave of absence as Howick Local Board chairman while he awaits a court appearance for drink-driving will be made tonight.

Elected member Lucy Schwaner intends to bring up the issue in extraordinary business at the board’s monthly meeting.

“I’ll try and get board support to encourage Michael to take leave of absence,” she says. “Michael has said he remains in the chair at the pleasure of the board. He’s not willing to make a decision either way, so we have to pursue other means.”

Apart from deputy-chair Adele White, who Mr Williams attempted to oust last month, and Ms White’s other supporter David Collings, Ms Schwaner says there has been no mention to her of the drink-driving charge by any of the other members. “It’s as if it doesn’t exist.”  Read more »

The same gullible NZ media who seems to conveniently forget the many convictions for serious crimes by Kim DotCom also seems to swallow hook line and sinker the self-description of serial litigant Graham McCready.

This goose,  who already having been given his beans by the court in December for his pathetic private prosecution of John Banks over his electoral return, now wants to launch yet another nuisance private prosecution of Banks over the Huljich Kiwisaver prospectus that Banks and Brash had already been cleared by the police and FMA. It seems that the media loses all objectivity when it comes to John Banks.

McCready proffers himself to the media as “retired accountant”. This is about as accurate as describing Kim Dotcom as an internet copyright expert, Michael Williams as intimately involved with local road safety issues, and Gareth Morgan as a professional football coach and sports psychologist.

What isn’t mentioned by McCready is:

- his quite recent charges for blackmail (case result unknown)
- his conviction for tax fraud (a good reason why he’s retired as an accountant!)
- his institutionalisation in Sunnyside hospital for a period of time, where “he dreamed of being executed” (according to the Herald)
- his lengthy time as a beneficiary due to “occupational overuse syndrome.”

One might wonder  as to what part of McCready’s body has been overused from bush accountancy, but I suppose that a serial nuisance litigator is probably capable of using a some of body parts a bit too much.

This case however highlightd the problem that many people face, where serial litigants, who have never won a case, almost never use lawyers can harass people using the system, costing defendants literally thousands of dollars when there is simply no case to answer. The costs are substantial but to the serial litigant, often indigent and useless to society sitting there doing this all for some sort perverse psychopathic fun. The courts indulge them with no reference checking or even financial checking to see if they could ever meet costs when they inevitably lose. To even challenge them on costs,e specially a bankrupt costs thousands. I believe the courts should be far more strict and vigilant against serial litigants. Perhaps a register for litigants who refuse to use legal representation, where their cases are recorded and the results and judgement public for all to see, including the courts.

Then people like Graham McCready and a certain bankrupt broken arse who doesn’t like the truth being told about him wouldn’t get a look in. Their serial and habitual abuse of court process would be revealed for all to see.

via Guido Fawkes

Maybe this was Caesar Michael Williams cunning plan for the Howick Local Board…embarrassed by Adele White’s lifetime of police service to road safety and with his own problems with the law and drink driving perhaps he trawled the internet for a solution to his dilemma…and found it:

Whenever you see the words Tory and Councillor together, you know it’s going to be good. Canterbury councillor Neil Baker has just been put in charge of the committee responsible for road safety in his town, despite being convicted of drink-driving just a few weeks ago. According to the Canterbury Times:

“Part of the new role is to advise the council’s executive committee – which Tankerton representative Mr Baker was suspended from following his arrest – on highways, road traffic and public transport issues. The 30-year-old father-to-be was hauled before the courts on January 7, after crashing his car into a tree in Whitstable while more than twice the legal drink limit.”

You couldn’t make it up… 

If Caesar Michael Williams doesn’t resign then I foresee a local campaign being started from Citizens Against Michael – C.A.M.  Read more »

Not content with giving those left in his under-performing KiwiSaver fund reasons to ditch it, New Zealand’s foremost economist, philanthropist, soccer coach extraordinaire, feeder of orca and killer of cats, Gareth Morgan, has decided to shoot his other foot off.

The customer is always right Gareth? Apparently not with Morgan who has labelled Phoenix fans “pathetic” and unsophisticated because they want their team to stop being the A-League’s ‘open goal’.

If only the Dom Post had their sports writers doing the news because they would blow Kim DotCon sky high but then again, the sports writers got this by that time honoured tradition of listening to Radio Sport:

“The A-League club’s co-owner, who has admitted in the past that his football knowledge is limited, has also claimed that many fans “don’t know much about the game anyway” and are only thinking about themselves, rather than the long-term viability of the club.”

Good one Gareth. After wanting to exterminate half of your fan’s pets, you now call them drongos for paying good money in other to see their (or rather ‘your’) team get thrashed. You should become a motivational speaker:

“Morgan let rip at fans for wanting “instant gratification”. He said the club’s change in football philosophy, to a more attractive, possession-based passing style, was required for success in the long-term.

No, not if you a). Not have any fans, b). right-size to a public park to fit attendance and c). have decent players avoiding your LOSER team like the plague.

The DomPost says the Phoenix have struggled with this shift, “bizarrely implemented mid-season, and are last”.

Maybe someone ought to remind Morgan what Wellington said of the French after Waterloo (the last time the French put up a decent scrap), “They came on in the same old way and we defeated them in the same old way:”

“But Morgan said they would not be reverting back to their former style, which was based on solid defence and getting balls into the box from the flanks, for the sake of results. Fans would have to put up with “short-term pain”. The bigger picture is far, far more important than the short term,” he said”.

Sir John Kirwan should now send the Blues wooden spoon to the Hurricanes’ Mark Hammett (who must be searching for a new role) given St Gareth used his gains from flogging ‘his’ fund to KiwiBank, to get a slice of the Canes.

I pity the punters who pay money for merchandise, tickets or even, buying a sponsor’s product:

“All some people do is look at the league tables and that’s all there is to the game for them. Well, they’re pathetic really.”

Then again, Gareth threw a wobbly at Morningstar for calling a spade a spade on this erratic clown’s KiwiSaver Fund. St Gareth doesn’t like league tables indeed he is allergic to them maybe because it is about accountability.

“People expect instant gratification or gain with no pain. It’s just pathetic really. I can’t think of any activity where you change like that and there’s not a short-term cost as you go through the changes.”

How about your philanthropic trips abroad, TV appearances, mad schemes to ensure we get overrun by rats and stoats, spending vast sums to fatten up Penguins, calling farmers ‘retards’ and wanting to form Gareth Morgan Farmers to rival Feds. That sounds a lot like “instant gratification” to me.

But he is not done. He goes onto trash the Club’s few remaining supporters as ‘thick’ and somehow thinks ‘his way’ will attract a new wave of supporters. Yeah the opposition to see how much they’ll win by. Can I humbly suggest he actually leaves the coaches to coach and the players to play:

“Fans are a cross section of the public, you know. A lot of them don’t know much about the game anyway and certainly, in my view, think only of themselves, not about the future of the club. This club has got a whole lot of stuff to do in order to be sustainable, and that’s what we’re going to do.”

This little angry man has a Caesar complex. Maybe we should introduce him to Michael Williams in Auckland – I think they would get on like a house on fire.

I never thought I would write this but “Bring back Terry”.

Michael Williams is a disgrace, not only did he fail in his attempt to oust Adele White, but he is also before the courts on drink driving and failing to accompany the Police charges.

After his rinsing on Monday night I would have thought he would step down, but he hasn’t.

He did manage to cancel a drinks session though, as David Farrar reveals in a leaked email. He neglected to tell everyone that the urgent incident was his complete embarrassment before the citizens of Howick on monday night.

I do have an idea for him though…he could emigrate…to Ireland…they seem to have laws that are pretty friendly for politicians like him:

Councillors in rural Ireland have come up with a novel way of tackling the problem of drink-driving – make it legal. Read more »