The Pukehīnau/Lambton ward seat in Wellington was previously held by former Green Party councillor Tamatha Paul, before she was elected to Parliament.
UPDATE: Greens candidate Geordie Rogers declared winner of Wellington CC by-election
Businessman and self-described centrist Karl Tiefenbacher has provisionally defeated Green Party candidate Geordie Rogers.
Tiefenbacher, a gelato chain owner, leads the provisional count by 621 votes, with the final results pending the count of today’s votes and about 650 special votes, expected to be declared by next Wednesday.
The by-election result will likely impact a crucial upcoming Wellington City Council vote concerning the city’s housing future, after an independent hearings panel controversially issued restrictive recommendations for Wellington’s new District Plan.
The council’s decision, scheduled for Thursday, March 14, will determine the direction of housing development in Wellington.
Tiefenbacher’s victory positions him as a pivotal figure in the decision-making process, with the possibility of influencing whether the council will form a majority to reject the panel’s recommendations in favour of increased housing development.
Any decisions made by the council that deviate from the panel’s recommendations will require approval from the Minister for the Environment.
The electoral contest was was described as ‘fierce’ by state-susbsidised news outlet Newshub.
Rogers is the president of the advocacy group Renters United. Rogers campaigned on healthy and affordable housing investment, improved public and active transportation, ‘climate action’, resilient infrastructure, and support for various community groups.
Tiefenbacher advocated for sensible and cost-effective council decisions focused on infrastructure management, revitalising the city, and prudent financial stewardship of public funds.
No to Green loonies.
Fantastic!
Geordie Rogers is simply yet another indoctrinated prize idiot chump with narcissistic dreams of stardom.
I simply love these indoctrinated green eco-woke communist dunces.
It’s genuinely a laugh a minute.
“Geordie Rogers is simply yet another indoctrinated prize idiot chump with narcissistic dreams of stardom…” BRILLIANT
Thankfully another stooge parasite, who has never worked a productive day in his cuntcil life, has been prevented to play out those megalomaniac dreams.
Imagine being dumb enough to vote for a communist clown like Geordie Rogers.
Or- Chloe…especially IF she ends-up the Green Party leader…
Just imagine the nightmare IF she were to become PM, following in the quicksand steps of Jabby!
Rogers campaigned on healthy and affordable housing investment, improved public and active transportation, ‘climate action’, resilient infrastructure, and support for various community groups.
Where do these clowns think that this Valhalla is going to come from, what exactly is ‘healthy housing investment’, or ‘resilient infrastructure’, its just a bunch of leftie feel good flags, oh look, vote for me and you’ll get healthy housing and climate action, even looking at the photograph this idiot has nothing going on behind the eyes.
The gelato king however has experience in running a business and understands profit and loss, there should be a variety of tests that potential pollies have to pass, just basic stuff like costing, infrastructure, expenditure and most of all where is the money coming from, they should also have to pass a public test on climate change including things like how much CO2 is in the atmosphere and how much methane does a cow fart at any one time and how does that affect the nearly three trillion tons of CO2 already in the atmosphere or even what percentage of that gas does NZ produce, the answer to that is 0.0000104% by the way, how does that compare with Net Zero I wonder ?