Why isn’t Desley Simpson the mayor?

She had two children – both now in their mid-30s – with Scott Simpson, who is the National MP for Coromandel. Then, after her re-election as councillor last year, the new guy, Wayne Brown, made her deputy mayor. In local paper snaps Simpson admires a worm farm, celebrates some new astroturf, poses near a twinkly-lit tree. (Photo: Bruce Mackay/Stuff)Given the praise heaped on Simpson for her subsequent performance as the public face of the floods, is Simpson going to run for mayor herself? There she is: the deputy mayor you’ll never see in a grey suit, walking very fast toward the Town Hall.