Tricia Cutforth. Photo / File
The voting results for Whangarei are littered with the anti-Hundertwasser sentiment.
Tricia Cutforth now has to prove she is more than a one trick anti-Austrian pony and that she can also listen, because having endured sitting in front of her during the pecha kucha mayoral evening, I can tell you
that she can talk, incessantly. Good on her though, she was also brave enough to risk putting the name Cutforth on a sign. Most definitely, she is not an, err, snigger in the woodpile.
Jeroen Jongejans - gone. I hope the pro-Hundertwasser campaigner remains positively positive about his experience as a councillor though, Whangarei needs people like Jeroen to champion the town.
The unluckiest candidate? Without a doubt Warren Slater.
Having met him several times, I believe he would have been an extremely hard working honest councillor slogging his guts our for the community. He suffered from being in a large pool of councillor candidates, after gaining respect on the mayoralty husting. I think he would have been a risk as mayor but a damned good councillor and there are people of lesser calibre, I believe, who have been elected.
