Who will be National’s Tauranga candidate

Written By: - Date published: 8:18 am, March 29th, 2022 - 66 comments
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National opens up nominations for the Tauranga seat by election today and I am sure there will be a slew of candidates seeking the position.  After all last election it was one of National’s safest seats with Simon Bridges enjoying a thumping majority of 1,856 over Labour’s Jan Tinetti.

Times have changed however and National’s relentless negativity and the fact it has stopped disemboweling itself in public every week has seen its fortunes improve.

So I expect National to win the seat without any major issues unless the candidate does something really stupid.  Given the calibre of recent selections there is a chance this could occur.

But who will the candidate be?

Will it be don’t you know who I am Aaron Gilmore?

Or a younger candidate with a particular skill of taping conversations of Parliamentary Staffers without their knowledge or consent and go for  Todd Barclay?

Or will they go for the white supremacist youth vote and pick William Wood?

Or will they go full racist and select former MP Hamish Walker who memorially claimed last election that Indian, Pakistani and Korean Covid sufferers were ready to invade Queenstown?

Or how about this guy and his ability to reach out to teenagers using social media?

They could go for experience and select Nick Smith who has particular skills in worker relations, particularly with his own staff.

How about Jake Bezzant and his particular skills in the writing of fantasy curriculum vitaes?

Or how about this guy who has publicly stated that he wants to become a National MP and has been bitter and twisted ever since Ardern has become leader?

But if they want someone with national prominence who day in and day out sticks to National talking points and who does his best to make sure that National is returned to its rightful position as the ruler of all the plebs there can be only one candidate.

Will this person be National’s Tauranga candidate?

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  1. Byd0nz 1
    29 March 2022 at 8:50 am

    Hopefully none of the above, but who really cares.

    • Blade 1.1
      29 March 2022 at 9:06 am

      No one cares. National would never pick Mikey. His value as an armour piercing shell that cuts through Jacinda's bs media utterances is far to valuable.

    • rod 1.2
      29 March 2022 at 4:40 pm

      What about Batman Mark Richardson, he is busting to become Tory mp.

  2. Pataua4life 2
    29 March 2022 at 9:02 am

    Jacinda has already thrown in the towel.

    Told you she won't show. She must be protected.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300552275/tauranga-byelection-jacinda-ardern-doesnt-expect-labour-to-win-will-set-date-soon

    • mickysavage 2.1
      29 March 2022 at 9:14 am

      Only a fool would think that Labour has a chance. Unless the National candidate self destructs.

      • Incognito 2.1.1
        29 March 2022 at 9:20 am

        Sometimes it is a fine line between being a fool or a dreamer.

      • Pataua4life 2.1.2
        29 March 2022 at 9:31 am

        Why the post then?

        Maybe Labour could nominate this guy. He fits right in to the party culture.

        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/hughes-case-naked-man-seen-in-street/KSFBX2DTVJBR4ZG7YJZA7B7N5Q/

        • Ad 2.1.2.1
          29 March 2022 at 9:35 am

          To keep expectations nice and low. Labour should sit this one out, so it wouldn't turn into a referendum on the government.

          I seriously pity the people of Tauranga. Everything about our 5th largest city is just a ruin with no guidance or government.

        • Scotty 2.1.2.2
          29 March 2022 at 10:44 am

          What ever happened to Mike Sabin ?

          You'll know Pataua – you keep tabs on such things

        • Blade 2.1.2.3
          29 March 2022 at 12:02 pm

          Given the wackos the Left produce, I'm at a loss why Mickey would open himself up to body shots by posting a rogues gallery of feral Righties.

          • Incognito 2.1.2.3.1
            29 March 2022 at 12:13 pm

            So, you found the Post confronting?

            • Blade 2.1.2.3.1.1
              29 March 2022 at 12:28 pm

              No, I found it very funny, especially the picture of Willy Wood.

              Only a sycophantic Rightie would find that post confronting.

              I mean, what else should anyone expect on a Left leaning blog?

              • Incognito …
                29 March 2022 at 12:48 pm

                Phew! That’s a relief!

                For a moment I thought Micky’s Post needed a warning similar to yours (https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-19-03-2022/#comment-1876642) for people such as you, but you’re were never at any risk by a long shot cheeky

                Warning. The following post may be confronting for people who have an IQ higher than 98. Reader discretion is advised.

              • Ross …
                29 March 2022 at 1:38 pm

                what else should anyone expect on a Left leaning blog?

                Some expectations of the Labour candidate? Positive comments about the Government? Why Three Waters is essential? The importance of free speech? The list goes on…

                • Peter …
                  29 March 2022 at 1:57 pm

                  Yeah, and every book in the library should be a sober tome, with no pictures or colour or humour. And no talking in there thank you.

          • Louis 2.1.2.3.2
            29 March 2022 at 12:14 pm

            "What wackos the left produce"?

            • Blade 2.1.2.3.2.1
              29 March 2022 at 12:43 pm

              1-The present Labour government.

              2-Kevin Davis, who is DPM, and still doesn't know perception is everything, especially when using a word like ''Grizzling.''

              3-David Benson-Pope.

              4-Anna Lorck.

              5- Dover Samuels.

              6-Clair Curran.

              7- Special mention- Trevor Mallard

              Of course, there is much more scandal around sex and naughty stuff from both Labour and National that will never make the headlines.

            • Drowsy M. Kram 2.1.2.3.2.2
              29 March 2022 at 12:59 pm

              Some fear-filled righties believe "wackos" lurk around every left turn.
              They should get out more smiley

              • Phil …
                29 March 2022 at 2:09 pm

                Sounds just like some of the commenters here believing that everyone to the right of Jacinda is secretly a full blown Nazi.

                • Drowsy M. Kram …
                  29 March 2022 at 4:18 pm

                  Phil, do you really believe "some of the commentators here" believe "that everyone to the right of Jacinda is secretly a full blown Nazi" – really and truly?

                  Sure, some of them righties are pretty woeful, but “full blown Nazi? Not seeing it, but happy to be put right.
                  wink

                  P.S. First mention of “Nazi” in/on this post/page is yours!!
                  Doesn’t that qualify you for some sort of award?

                • Blade …
                  29 March 2022 at 4:29 pm

                  ''Commenters here believing that everyone to the right of Jacinda is secretly a full blown Nazi.''

                  Phil, that's the funniest line on this thread so far.

                  yeslaughlaughlaugh.

                  • Drowsy M. Kram …
                    29 March 2022 at 5:09 pm

                    yes The idea that "some of the commenters here" believe "that everyone to the right of Jacinda is secretly a full blown Nazi" is laughable.

                    • gsays …
                      30 March 2022 at 5:53 am

                      Yes, after all, the Wellington Protest posts ended when the protest was disbanded.

                    • Drowsy M. Kram …
                      30 March 2022 at 11:12 am

                      @gsays (5:53 am)

                      Wellington Protest posts ended when the protest was disbanded.

                      All things (good, bad, and meh) must end – protests, protest posts, vaccine mandates and passes, prudent public health restrictions on gatherings, travel etc. – even pandemics.

                      Imho the idea that many, if any commenters here think "that everyone to the right of Jacinda is secretly a full blown Nazi" defies belief – it’s just fanciful.

                      35 deaths recorded yesterday. Still masking up (because I don't want to be infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19), and scanning in at every opportunity, for example my dentist. Just trying to maintain good public health habits (my way of living with COVID-19) until this latest wave is done – the tail may be long if Australia (60,000 new cases and rising, plus 29 deaths yesterday) is anything to go by.

                      https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/

                      Be well.

        • Louis 2.1.2.4
          29 March 2022 at 12:12 pm

          "Former MP Darren Hughes says he has paid a high price for the sex complaint dismissed by police today"

          "In a statement Hughes said he had been falsely accused of a serious crime he did not commit and it had been "one of the most challenging experiences in my life"

          https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/5116292/No-charges-laid-against-Darren-Hughes

      • James Simpson 2.1.3
        29 March 2022 at 10:35 am

        I agree.

        It will be as uneventful as the 2017 Mt Albert by-election when Jacinda romped in.

        If I was Labour, I wouldn't allow the Nats to treat this as some kind of victory over the government and would therefore not put up a candidate and essentially ignore it. Don't give them any oxygen.

        • Mike the Lefty 2.1.3.1
          29 March 2022 at 12:32 pm

          I agree and argued this in an earlier post.

          If Labour doesn't stand a candidate, but rather endorses another such as as Greens or even Winston! (I'm being serious) then the Nats' victory will be a kind of hollow one for them. (Hollow – Hollow Men – Get it?).

          Of course they will play the "Labour is too gutless to stand a candidate because…." argument but Labour should simply just ignore that. When you have an overall majority in parliament you don't have to respond every time you get called out.

          If Labour stands a candidate (probably Tinetti) they won't win, but a big loss could be bad for the party's morale.

          Let your political enemies bump their heads together. Why risk putting your head in the way when it won't gain you anything?

          But at the end of the day I think Labour will nominate Tinetti to stand because they won't be able to resist.

    • Louis 2.2
      29 March 2022 at 12:06 pm

      Not about throwing in the towel, more like reality. "Asked if Labour had a shot of winning the seat, Ardern noted it had not done so since 1935"

      • Phil 2.2.1
        29 March 2022 at 2:15 pm

        In 2020 Labour won more party votes than National in Tauranga. Last time they beat national head-to-head on party vote was 2002.

        Not standing a candidate in the by-election would be a massive 'fuck you' to the 18 and a half thousand people who party voted Labour last time around.

        • Louis 2.2.1.1
          29 March 2022 at 2:38 pm

          Yes and Labour won the party vote in 71 out of the 72 electorates in 2020. I don't know whether Labour will stand a candidate or not, usually they do though.

  3. Tony Veitch (not etc.) 3
    29 March 2022 at 9:56 am

    My expectation is that Woodhouse's mystery homeless man will be the candidate, and will be chosen to show the absolute inadequacies of our MIQ system that kept us so safe for so long.

    He was a Natz supporter all along, you see!

  4. Tiger Mountain 4
    29 March 2022 at 9:58 am

    Micky has provided a timely reminder of the full glory of Nashnull’s motley crew–“don’t you know who I am…”–many tories project that, but few have been captured on record saying it!–classically, to a worker in a waiting role. Pony puller Sirkey of course targeted a young female service worker for his unwanted attentions also.

    “Towelronga” is a cultural and intellectual desert of the NZ provincial kind with dysfunctional local Govt. and significantly run on National Superannuation and other pension fund income.

    • Pataua4life 4.1
      29 March 2022 at 10:05 am

      You could play this game with any Party. Please see link above.

      I just don't think the post brings anything intelligent to the site or the writer.

        • Pataua4life 4.1.1.1
          29 March 2022 at 10:51 am

          I must be damn funny then wink

        • mac1 4.1.1.2
          29 March 2022 at 11:49 am

          Bob Jones alleged that Lefties had no sense of humour. Surveys show that Lefties are more intelligent than Righties. So, where does that put Righties' sense of humour? Either Bob was making it up or Righties are really grumpy….. it’s all quite hilarious.

          • Incognito 4.1.1.2.1
            29 March 2022 at 11:59 am

            I’ve got two left hands and two left feet and my humour is out of left field when I feel right. There’s nothing left to say, right? Let’s go back to those clowns in National.

            • mac1 4.1.1.2.1.1
              29 March 2022 at 12:23 pm

              Be careful, incognito, when giving directions to a car driver, when telling them to go left, right?

              As for National clowns, they have made a basic mistake in trying to alleviate their poor candidate selection. Luxon has suggested Candidate 101 as a compulsory course but the problem goes back to the personal qualities of the candidates themselves.

              At its worst end of the spectrum, can you teach someone to get past sociopathic personality traits and become an empathetic, wise, considerate, true servant of the people?

              This is why this topic of candidate selection is so important, even when it involves the opposition. I don't want to be governed by sociopaths.

              History and current events both teach this. Has National, for example, learnt from its recent history? Does its basic culture and values allow otherwise?

              Are business values and behaviour a good basis for empathetic political leadership? Business has more than its fair share of middle management sociopaths, after all.

              Will it put up a decent (in the sense of personal qualities) candidate? National will return to government at some stage. We need them to be well chosen before that.

          • Blade 4.1.1.2.2
            29 March 2022 at 12:11 pm

            Yes, I perused one of those surveys written by the Wheel Tappers And Shunters Union Of Aotearoa. All I can say is the survey lacked intellectual rigour.

            • mac1 4.1.1.2.2.1
              29 March 2022 at 1:44 pm

              "Eee, lad, but it's knowing where to tap them. that's the thing….."

              • Blade …
                29 March 2022 at 4:40 pm

                Aye, comrade. By gum, I just had a piffiny.. where are them trains these chaps are meant to be tappin and shunting?

  5. Blazer 5
    29 March 2022 at 10:04 am

    Someone with a …'big brain'….will need to step…forward!laugh

  6. AB 6
    29 March 2022 at 11:24 am

    New National candidates are always interesting and absorbing. I really like it when one crops up who is repellent in an entirely new way, or in an unusual combination of existing ways.

    • Drowsy M. Kram 6.1
      29 March 2022 at 11:31 am

      New National candidates are always interesting and absorbing.

      Sponges (spongers?) are absorbing, but they don't have very big brains.

  7. Macro 7
    29 March 2022 at 12:07 pm

    But who will the candidate be?

    All of the above.

  8. Reality 8
    29 March 2022 at 12:34 pm

    Perhaps Michelle Boag has served her time on the naughty chair and can be brought back to give PR advice and media training and a quick rundown on ethics as well.

  9. Binders full of women 9
    29 March 2022 at 1:47 pm

    Maybe Louisa Wall will stand??

    • Pataua4life 9.1
      29 March 2022 at 2:21 pm

      You could do a lot worse.

      I don't agree with her politics but a women of real integrity. Parliament is worse off without her.

      • Westykev 9.1.1
        29 March 2022 at 3:03 pm

        Agree about her ethics and morals, we need many more MP's of that calibre. Pity that she was too left wing for Labour

      • mac1 9.1.2
        29 March 2022 at 3:27 pm

        That's the issue which lies behind who should be National's candidate for Tauranga- integrity, good ethics and morals.

        As for all public office.

        That person will most likely become an MP.

        I hope that all commenters here, from whatever party allegiance we might have, will at least do our darndest to bring forward our best people to be our candidates.

        Tonight I am a candidate for an electorate chair. This next year will be spent in finding and supporting a candidate to prepare for the 2023 election.

        It's why we should all be involved in political parties. Be there to help get the best candidates and policies.

        • Shanreagh 9.1.2.1
          29 March 2022 at 8:53 pm

          These are really important points mac1.

          There is a thought about choir singing that the sum of all the different voices is a sublime voice floating above/from with no individual voices able to be discerned. While not totally applicable the idea in politics is to get those best voices and meld them together for the best results, sometimes across a party sometimes across the whole of parliament.

          So saying, this is why I am so astounded at the klutzy selections from the Nats in recent times.

          Obviously we do want/need soloists from time to time.

          In this spirit above I wish to say how disappointed/sad I am about the resignation of Louisa Wall.

          • mac1 9.1.2.1.1
            29 March 2022 at 10:01 pm

            People at the meeting tonight felt the same. She got some good legislation through the House.

  10. roblogic 10
    30 March 2022 at 1:41 am

    David Farrar

    Cam "WhaleOil" Slater

  11. Hunter Thompson II 11
    31 March 2022 at 9:44 am

    Natz will likely stand some ex-cop and let him/her sleepwalk to victory. Pushing the buttons on gangs and law and order should be enough, with a nod to Greypower.

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  • Earthquake-prone buildings review brought forward
    The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
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  • Thailand and NZ to agree to Strategic Partnership
    Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
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  • Government consults on extending coastal permits for ports
    RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
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  • Inflation coming down, but more work to do
    Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
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  • School attendance restored as a priority in health advice
    Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
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  • Unnecessary bureaucracy cut in oceans sector
    Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
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  • Patterson promoting NZ’s wool sector at International Congress
    Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector.    "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
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  • Removing red tape to help early learners thrive
    The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
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  • RMA changes to cut coal mining consent red tape
    Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
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