Reflections - One-and-a-half months on, Due to Necessity: I.e. Google/Blogger Et Al! - Upon Local Elections, October 2022, in Aotearoa-New Zealand
*Yes, the Labour majority Government is now - well and truly - on notice; and in two of its heartland cities, (Dunedin and Christchurch), to boot... ...and it arguably fared even worse in the 'big-ticket' cities of Auckland and Wellington, though the latter's new Green Party Mayor perhaps runs somewhat counter to such a - clear and obvious - narrative... *Yes, outgoing (now gone) Green Party Dunedin Mayor Aaron Hawkins is - was - right on: the people here (and around God's Own) are simply [fed up with] the Government's contentious '3 (now 5) Waters' reforms, though the seemingly never-ending roadworks all around the city doubtless played just a wee part in his own rather catastrophic - as in dramatic and significant - demise... Or, to use an old Clintonism: it's the potholes - and roadworks - (everywhere), stupid! (Though in Hawkins' case, methinks his and his bureaucrats' arguably criminal coverup (if not actual stuffup) vis-a-vis the Waikoua...