Auckland's Mayoral Race

this could be interesting
thebfd.co.nz/2022/11/04/have-we-got-a-case-of-ballot-stuffing-in-auckland/
and as usual it is the left under suspicion, nothing is too low for them

Oh please let this be true! 

Mr River of Filth would not be happy if Mrs River of Filth got pinged for that!

Shit like this doesn't appear out of nowhere though, one has to think where there's smoke, there's fire.

Maybe they could get Kate Hannah onto the job to prove it's pure disinformation, started of course by someone in Russia...

Be interesting to see the total debit charted over the rate increases?

Hey, it costs a lot to employ 100's of useless fuckers all on over 100K each.
Stop being a useless fuckerist

There is clearly something else going on here. And it's nothing to do with the sink hole.
I've dealt with a couple myself. You can usually fix them within a day, given a few days for planning and getting a weather window. The quickest way is to float a cured in place liner down the pipe and cured it in place. If that doesn't work, you excavate over the top of it and drop an encasement pipe (half round) over the top of the carrier pipe. Given that there was a known failure right next to this one, leaving it since January smacks of negligence. Or a bigger game plan.

If you are facing budget cuts, the best course of action is to do nothing. You meet your budget. Then, when the road caves in and you have to close a 4 lane arterial route for 4 months, suddenly the money appears to fix it. 

NEVER, EVER waste a good crisis.

Wayne is slashing budgets. OK.
Healthy Waters can match that and raise you one. Just like the 'Yes, Minister' series when the minister wants to save money, so they send the cleaning lady in during the day instead of at night. She is vacuuming while he's trying to have a meeting. "But you said you wanted to save money, Minister?!"

It would appear Healthy Waters are saying, yes, you can slash our budget. No problem. Oh, you don't want sink holes?!

This is a manufactured event to prove a point / create a crisis purely to politic around departmental budgets. Oh, and it shouldn't take more than a week to fix, unless there is a massive capital upgrade snuck into the emergency works order....

That's how it works. Staff only respond to questions. They never tell the full story. If you don't know then you can't ask. When a new CEO starts the first thing done is a "restructure" That gets rid of old hands who may not show loyalty to new CEO. Wayne Brown should do the same. Clean out all hierarchy or else they'll bring him down. Happens all the time in all politics. Trump called it draining the swamp. He's correct.