Hey, did y’all know there’s an elec­tion com­ing up? Yes, there is! And once again, we want to provide you with some decent cov­er­age of the issues we care about. Loc­al body polit­ics is IMPORTANT.

Once again, we’re ask­ing can­did­ates to con­tact us with the answers to the ques­tions below. We’re doing things a little dif­fer­ent this year, because we got tired of the games people played try­ing to play us to get their posts up first, or last so they’d be fresh­er in voters’ minds. Instead, we’re ask­ing all can­did­ates for all pos­i­tions to email us. You have until 5pm Sat­urday 10 Septem­ber to send the answers to these ques­tions to info@wellingtonista.com, and then we’ll put up all the answers at the same time on Septem­ber 12. As always, ques­tion replies are lim­ited to 25 words. We will count and cut off if neces­sary. And don’t for­get to tell us who you are and what you’re run­ning for and where. We’re happy to take answers from the great­er Wel­ling­ton region for this, includ­ing the Wair­ar­apa. All of these rules are set in stone but we are of course open to bribes for oth­er things. Now get on with it!

  1. What should the council’s role be in cre­at­ing afford­able hous­ing?
  2. What one pro­ject for Wel­ling­ton have you been most act­ive on so far?
  3. What pro­ject do you plan to cham­pi­on most if you win this pos­i­tion?
  4. What’s your opin­ion on the pro­posed new bus routes?
  5. What’s your opin­ion on cycle­ways?
  6. What’s your opin­ion on the air­port exten­sion?
  7. Who is the biggest donat­or to your cam­paign?
  8. Which NZ politi­cian do you most admire?
  9. What do you think needs to hap­pen to the Town Hall?
  10. How long have you lived in the area you are stand­ing for?
  11. What’s one thing from the 2013–2016 Coun­cil term you think was really great and why?
  12. What do you think of the Auck­land Unit­ary Plan and what can Wel­ling­ton learn from it?
  13. What’s the biggest risk Wel­ling­ton faces in the next ten years?
  14. How will you work with the rest of the coun­cil to achieve the things you’re set­ting out to do?
  15. Who do you nom­in­ate for Wel­ling­tonista Wel­ling­to­ni­an of the Year (assum­ing we run the TAWAs again)?