The Star: August 01, 2019
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Solo dad enters mayoralty race<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
RETAIL WORKER and single<br />
parent Stephen McPaike is<br />
running for mayor.<br />
Mr McPaike was motivated to<br />
run for the mayoralty after his<br />
six-year-old son asked him why<br />
there were so many empty sites<br />
when they were walking through<br />
the CBD.<br />
“That made me realise that no<br />
one in my son’s class has seen<br />
a Christchurch fully built,” he<br />
said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> rebuild has really slowed<br />
down and I just feel it is time for<br />
Lonsdale making another bid for council<br />
Paul Lonsdale<br />
a change.”<br />
Mr McPaike lives<br />
in social housing and<br />
has bubble wrap on<br />
some of his windows<br />
to combat the cold<br />
temperatures of his<br />
poorly-insulated<br />
flat.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 34-year-old<br />
said during his<br />
tenancy at Haast<br />
Courts in Linwood<br />
he has thrown out<br />
two beds because of<br />
mould, in spite of ventilating the<br />
rooms every day.<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
FORMER CITY<br />
councillor and mayoral<br />
candidate Paul Lonsdale<br />
is making another bid<br />
for local government.<br />
Mr Lonsdale was the<br />
only councillor who<br />
stood for re-election in<br />
2<strong>01</strong>6 but did not retain a seat.<br />
He stood for the newly-formed<br />
Heathcote Ward and lost<br />
out to Sara Templeton by 1585<br />
votes.<br />
Mr Lonsdale will now run<br />
in the Halswell Ward as an<br />
independent against current<br />
Stephen<br />
McPaike<br />
Anne<br />
Galloway<br />
He said if<br />
he was<br />
mayor, he<br />
would fight<br />
to see social<br />
housing<br />
standards<br />
improved.<br />
Mr McPaike<br />
thinks he<br />
has a 50/50<br />
chance of<br />
beating current<br />
Mayor Lianne<br />
Dalziel in the<br />
October local body elections. Ms<br />
Dalziel formally submitted her<br />
city councillor and<br />
<strong>The</strong> People’s Choice<br />
candidate Anne<br />
Galloway<br />
and independent Sam<br />
Yau.<br />
He said he wanted<br />
to restore a bit of fiscal<br />
responsibility around the<br />
council table.<br />
“With current rates increases,<br />
I have a concern that home<br />
ownership is going to become<br />
unaffordable for a wide range of<br />
people,” he said.<br />
He said he was considering<br />
running for mayoralty again<br />
in spite of losing out to current<br />
application for the<br />
mayoralty yesterday.<br />
“I’m a retail worker<br />
so I’m hardworking,<br />
I’m out in the public<br />
every day. I’m a solo<br />
dad who loves his son<br />
so much and I want<br />
to do the best I can<br />
for everyone.”<br />
Adrian Schönborn,<br />
who owns of a car<br />
grooming business,<br />
has also submitted<br />
his application for the<br />
mayoralty.<br />
He declined to comment.<br />
Lianne Dalziel<br />
mayor Lianne<br />
Dalziel in 2<strong>01</strong>3,<br />
he received<br />
22,855 votes<br />
while Ms<br />
Dalziel got<br />
72,600.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re is a<br />
Sam Yau<br />
mood out there<br />
for a change and I just want to<br />
test that and see if that is real,<br />
sometimes you get told things<br />
that don’t have a lot of depth to<br />
them, I just want to make sure<br />
that whatever decisions I make<br />
in this election period are good<br />
solid ones that have good solid<br />
outcomes for Christchurch.”<br />
Thursday <strong>August</strong> 1 2<strong>01</strong>9 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
NEWS 9<br />
Battle for<br />
Fendalton<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
A FORMER Waikato councillor<br />
will run against third term city<br />
councillor James Gough for the<br />
Fendalton Ward.<br />
David Benson was a councillor<br />
with the Waikato District Council<br />
between 1992 and 2004.<br />
He said he is running for city<br />
council because he is “sick of the<br />
way this place is being<br />
run.”<br />
“I have got a dog<br />
and I walk it regularly<br />
and it’s a great way to<br />
start conversations<br />
with people and they<br />
are all saying the David<br />
same thing, our rates Benson<br />
here are increasing<br />
too much,” he said.<br />
Mr Benson said he<br />
would be running a<br />
minimalist campaign.<br />
“I won’t be throwing<br />
my money<br />
around, I have Scottish<br />
ancestry and I Gough<br />
James<br />
guard my money.”<br />
Mr Benson felt Cr Gough had<br />
not done enough for Fendalton<br />
during his time as its councillor.<br />
However, Cr Gough said: “I<br />
think that is up to the ward to<br />
determine. I’m passionate for my<br />
city and the ward I live in and if<br />
someone has an alternative view<br />
that is their right,” he said.<br />
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