Diversity and the Auckland City Council
Aaron Bhatnagar is having fun, Cathy Casey from City Vision accused C&R of making diversity a dirty word at the Auckland City Council. Aaron reveals that what she is complaining about is the...
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Newzblog shows that some on the left do not think it is a mortal sin to post photos of attractive people – they have a photo spread of Eliot Spitzer’s hooker. Aaron Bhatnagar exposes hypocrisy from...
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Aaron Bhatnagar had Judith Tizard bail him up and tell him he was a disgusting individual. What did he do? Speculated ten years ago (yes ten years ago) to her niece about Judith and Mat Rata. Good God...
View ArticleResigning from a non-existent role
Aaron Bhatnagar has an amusing story of how a fellow Councillor resigned in protest from a Council role, and it turns out that role no longer actually exists! Tags: Aaron Bhatnagar, Auckland City Council
View ArticleCongratulations Lawrence and Kerry
Aaron Bhatnagar blogs on the results of the Local Government NZ elections which saw Hastings District Mayor Lawrence Yule elected President and Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast Vice-President. I...
View ArticleCaughey calls for Blog and Wikipedia regulation
Christine Caughey has just been appointed by Labour to their new Transport Board. She got thrown off the Auckland City Council last year, after serving one term. It seems she is not too happy about...
View ArticleThe Transmogrification story
Aaron Bhatnagar has written a book, which political junkies would find fascinating – the inside story of how John Banks came back from his thrashing in 2004 to win by a massive majority in 2007. Aaron...
View ArticleWikipedia editing
The NZ Herald has a story on edits done to Wikipedia by Aaron Bhatnagar, highlighted a few days ago by Russell Brown. Auckland City councillor Aaron Bhatnagar has been caught doctoring the online...
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Idiot/Savant looks at what would happen if the Foreshore and Seabed Act was repealed. I tend to favour repeal of the Act, but also would like the Court of Appeal ruling to have been tested by appeal to...
View ArticleCity Vision Cr votes to ban smoking in Auckland CBD
Aaron Bhatnagar blogs that a City Vision Councillor voted to ban smoking outside in the Auckland CBD. Why not just cut out all the in between steps, and just start shooting smokers? Tags: Aaron...
View ArticleCity Vision and Tamil Tigers
I almost can’t believe this one – from Aaron Bhatnagar: The City Vision Councillors are focused on the big issues that matter to Aucklanders – the Tamil Tigers: City Vision Councillor Graham Easte has...
View ArticleCowards
I blogged on Monday about how Whale Oil was seeking donations so he could win a charity auction (for Westpac Rescue Helicopter) for the prize of 90 minutes in a flight simulator with North Shore Mayor...
View ArticleMetro on Williams
Yet to buy it, but love this extract from Aaron Bhatnagar: There was also an amusing set of late night emails from William to Metro Magazine staffers, which goes like this 1:00am – 2 paragraph email...
View ArticleA sensible dropping
Very pleased to read in the Herald: Liquor law changes which would have closed Auckland suburban bars before midnight will be scrapped after receiving a hostile reception from the hospitality industry....
View ArticleThe Botany Five
National has annoucned the five short-listed candidates for Botany. In alphabetical order they are: Maggie Barry Aaron Bhatnagar Darron Gedge Jami-lee Ross Edward Saafi I picked four of the five...
View ArticleBanks for Epsom
Derek Cheng reports in the NZ Herald: The Act Party is expected to open nominations for the crucial seat of Epsom today and former Auckland Mayor John Banks is “quietly confident” he has the inside...
View ArticleNational to open Epsom nominations
Belinda mcCammon writes: The National Party will open nominations this weekend for the Auckland blue-ribbon seat of Epsom, anticipated to be one of the most-watched contests of the general election....
View ArticleEpsom race heats up
Belinda McCammon writes: Former Auckland City councillor Paul Goldsmith, who has written biographies on John Banks and Don Brash, says he will contest the National Party nomination for Epsom. Goldsmith...
View ArticleNational’s Epsom candidate
In a final ballot run-off, Paul Goldsmith pipped Aaron Bhatnagar. Congrats to Paul, and commiserations to Aaron and the other candidates. Tags: Aaron Bhatnagar, Epsom, National, Paul Goldsmith
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