The Wellington City Council’s own annual Residents Monitoring Survey shows plummeting levels of confidence in the politicians and the state of the city. But this simply hasn’t happened, with the main three mayoral candidates promising “more of the same”. This is essentially a huge vote of “No confidence” in the mayoral candidates. As Newstalk ZB’s Heather du Plessis-Allan recently summed up the contest: “The Wellington Mayoral race is awful. It’s talentless.” Finally, all three mayoral candidates were recently asked to write a poem to pitch to voters about why they deserved to be mayor.

Source: Stuff September 19, 2022 13:01 UTC