Larry Williams Drive

I was going to vote for Paul Eagle in the Wellington Mayoral race, but then I read a story in the paper today and now I’m not going to.   Because he broke his word and no politician who breaks their word deserves my vote.  It wasn’t for the media. This is what’s happened. Everyone in Wellington has known for years that Paul Eagle was considering running for Wellington Mayor. So at the last government elections in 2020, he was challenged on that. Why was he running for parliament if he wasn’t planning on being there for the whole term? If he was just going to quit after a couple of years and force a by election which will cost the whole country $1.2m-odd and then go off to be the mayor. So the media asked him and he dodged the question and they pushed him and finally he ruled it out. He said ”Yes, I will [rule it out].”  And now he’s doing exactly what he said he’d ruled out.  He’s running for Mayor. And good on the media for drawing attention to this.  Because now Paul Eagle is costing taxpayers a lot of mone