Saturday 27 August 2016

South Waikato 2016 Election special 39 Days to go till close of polls

"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."
Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820)
http://youtu.be/Fbx-MaDx8kcWell this next video is identifying the joy of finding a candidates poster. The same candidate that said he would not open an email about a Mayoral debate in Tirau Hall. The new style debate was for the population and using social media and what right does a candidate have to turn that Oppertunity down  if the district is going to be apathetic to growth with a person who shuts others down. 

When I drove past this I had to stop and go back and take a photo of it for posting on the blog.

Elections are not won but they are lost. And on Friday night a person or group of persons walking must have picked this sign of all the signs and tossed it from a car or frisbee the thing across the road to lay where it did.

The irony of it laying in a ditch in the gutter was not lost on me when I reflected on my hopes for setting up a mayoral debate in Tirau Hall towards the end of the campaign. 

Crack Head Alan laying in the gutter was what I got from his refusal to open an email addressed to a mayoral candidate. I have spent a decade of my life submitting to council for thinks like Internet in the library free. Tokoroa community board. Limiting pokie machines in the CBD and at the start all were tossed in my face and laughed at. 

I have watched the love soup kitchen be bowled over. I have seen the airport offered to out of town residents who pay not a cent while turning 12,000 people in Tokoroa out from flying a drone in a public park. It all comes down to this sign representing the vested interests of pokie machines and deals outside public gaze. So a person who is rude on the street thinking no one will know is then a viral video sensation say what he thinks no one can hear. And tossed away as a credible candidate by the street walkers late at night. 


The positive merit in writing this is I have found the 28 profiles of the ward Candiates running today. Using the free wifi out at the airfield. Well with permission of the model fliers mentor and a password.

So the candidates are

http://www.southwaikato.govt.nz/our-council/elections2016/Pages/Elections%202016.aspx

After reading all the Candiates profiles I can see that from a photo and a 150 word extract that I could not rank 1-28. I have my own personal preference but then I can see others have an equal vote also too so would have to wait till the final votes are counted. Then I read back over my emails and found this reply as a good guide
"Hi Rod, thank you for your invitation. Unfortunately I can’t take up your offer as if I am the Mayor I would need to know who is in council, their strengths and interests before I could fairly make a decision on who I would like as Deputy. 

 

I do think experienced leadership is important as there will definitely be at least four new councillors around the table, maybe more. Notwithstanding that if I’m Mayor I would interview each successful councillor to find out their preferences as to what portfolio would interest them ie. Youth, Aged, Economic development, Environment, Assets, Transport etc and if any one of the new councillors particularly stood out with strengths in a particular area, I could not ignore that. I would like to marry up the elected members with the areas that interest them the most as I would think that’s where we would get the best value for our district.

 

So at this stage I don’t know who my preferences would be.

 

Many thanks for your continued interest in our community.

 

Kind regards

 

Jenny

 

 

Jenny Shattock QSM JP

 

Ph: 07 8868120 / Mobile: 0274 416230

Email: jennyshattock@gmail.com

 "However if I was to offer a guideline for selecting a deputy from the 28 if all were elected as that was the hypothetical I would offer it this way.Selecte a person who has 1. Well trained mind2. Mature Experience3. Recognised ability4 Selfless devotion5. Unquestioned loyaltyIf each mayoral Candiates was asked to select one person that they know in each of these categories then what would we find.And if I apply them to the four mayoral Candiates and then look at the combination of all of them then who do I get?It is not my task to say here but only to prompt the readers to consider.
So where does the debates in Tirau now sit.
The mayoral Candiates have two declining. And of the two remaining let's post their bios here. As this is a problem that must be solve before the election and opting out is not an option. So Jenny and Alan have opted out. Jarrad and Tracey are still in the running to make the Tirau Mayoral debates work so the 28 candidates can profile themselves on social media with the two Mayoral Candiates introducing a leadership and vision for the District followed by the 28 ward candidates. (If they choose to attend a community organised event)So the two Candiates still left in the race for a Tirau Hall debate of Mayoral and Ward candidates sharing a vision for south Waikato are. The leaders are...Starting with the newest comer

And the candidate that came a close second to the incumbent three years ago for Mayor

International experience from Jarrad is a good "well trained mind" point. Tracy has that two. The Jenny and Allan do not."Mature experience" comes from working in council as Tracey has and Jarrad working with council to get house built. Governance is not climbing up from TANGS and then kicking the ladder away for others to enter. Governance is not not reading emails and nor is health and safety ignoring whistle blowers."Unquestioned loyalty" can be seen in the youth expo work. Not just living in one place for a long time."Selfless devotion" again with the youth expo work. Not knocking over love soup when Julie king selflessly devoted joining others to remove synthetic highs from the youth hands in the community."Recognised ability" and yes the youth expo event again. Not being Luke warm at the vote after moving a motion in the first place.
So we have to know how the 28 ward Candiates interact with this now. How they contact the mayoral Candiates and push to have the Tirau debates for the social media convenience of the community and voters. It is about the Candiates playing the game. Getting an email the debate is on in the Tirau hall and driving or car pooling and teuning up for the bright lights and cameras.It is also up to you readers and voters to ask the candidates about this "deputy mayor mayoral candidate debate" to. You need to push the Candiates who all got the email to tell you what they understand it means. This blog give you context of it but it is now up to the voters to press the 28 ward Candiates to make it happen. Jenny and Allan are out by their one vision limitations on what social media offers. Jarrad has said nothing and around the council table slence is seen as consent. Tracey has said she has opened the email and have a brief look over it.I do not expect Tracey and Jarrad to work together on this as they are in a race for the contest to be Mayor. But I do expect the 28 ward Candiates to seek out Jarad and Tracey and decide which of the two they would like to support in the debates. Remember as a ward candidate if your preferred mayoral candidates does not get in but you are elected in then the voters may have seen qualities in you that shows you will stand up to the new mayor and confront the new mayor and vote down every agenda item proposed by the new mayor and build consensus around the table to get your agenda items put on the top of the agenda.Just as I as the organiser of the debate have put social media and smart phones front and centre of this election cycle I need mayoral Candiates who support that and do not have inferiority complexes. Both Jenny and Alan have inferiority complexes with regards this debate suggestion and shrink from the challenge.Not leadership.  I am looking for leaders who can serve a good idea, Jenny and Allan blocked and gate kept. That is not governance. Nor is that management. So Jenny and Allan get their names next to the photo on social media of the demolished love soup kitchen of east bowling club site or Jenny and Allan get photo atribution to the sign tossed into the gutter.News paper that wraps the fish and chips is discarded with grease and salt and left overs wrapped up in it. Discarded like the sign in the gutter. Elections are not won they are lost. An on social media pictures or signs in gutters are signs that have lost prominence.What will Jarrad and Tracey be saying in the Tirau Hall and what will 28 ward candidates do to turn up to speak to the forum. Remember social media is for 61% who do not engage and do not vote. Why. Because the past ten years have been giving to vested interest groups passing through South Waikakto and not to those that Iive here as one candidate for the Tokoroa ward said. Who was that will you please email me as I would like to congraduate you.


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