Wellington Central candidates meeting @ Aro Valley

The Aro Val­ley Com­munity Hall Meet the Can­did­ates of Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral meet­ing has long been one of the high­lights of the cam­paign­ing that goes on in the build up to an elec­tion, and this time around would appear to have been no dif­fer­ent.

Smack bang in the middle of the hippy-lefty-green hub of Wel­ling­ton (as Nation­al Party can­did­ate Blum­sky poin­ted out, the Greens out polled Nation­al by 400% at the Aro Val­ley polling last elec­tion), it’s always a chal­lenge for the right-of-centre parties, and one that most of them seem to enjoy, as the (gen­er­ally) good-natured atti­tude of the audi­ence heckle all the par­ti­cipants con­stantly, as Green Party can­did­ate Sue Kedgely found out, when bemoan­ing the short­age of ambu­lance staff to take acci­dent vic­tims to hos­pit­al, and someone yelled “send them by trol­ley bus” – a ref­er­ence to her prom­ise to intro­duce wind-powered trol­ley buses to the region.

More write-ups of the even­ing at beN­Zylpiperazine, Dav­id Far­rar, Liberty Scott, Blog­Green and the Domin­ion Post.