Rates Rebellion Promises To Reset Rates After Election

Speaking to an audience of 150 ratepayers and residents in Orewa this afternoon, Rebellion spokesman David Thornton, responding to a question, said RatesRebellion would be fielding candidates at the Auckland Regional Council elections in October.

If enough RatesRebellion candidates were elected, and if the ARC kept its present rating policies, David Thornton promised that;-

"RatesRebellion councillors would reset the rates to bring back a fair and equitable rating system for all ratepayers - residential, business and rural"

Mr Thornton told his audience, "Last year the ARC, in response to the Rates Rebellion campaign, said it could not reset the rates unless there was a significant change of circumstances. A RatesRebellion victory at the polls would be a significant change of circumstances and would allow us to reset rates as permitted in the legislation"

The next RatesRebellion meeting will be on 18th April in Glenfield.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>