Responding to the Otago Daily Times report that Dunedin
Mayor David Cull spent nearly $4,000 of ratepayers’ money
on a pair of camel shackles, incorrectly thinking they were
a New Zealand historical artefact, Taxpayers’
UnionExecutive Director Jordan Williams
says:
“The Mayor’s shackles of stupidity
provide the long-suffering Dunedin ratepayer with a smidgeon
of poetic irony, but that’s little cause for
celebration.”
“It’s pretty rich that the Mayor is
calling on the vendor to reimburse the ratepayer for selling
a genuine item. Instead of begging a vendor to reimburse the
money after the Mayor’s jumped the shark, it would be
better if he simply stopped playing loose with ratepayers’
money.”
In February the Taxpayers’ Union
revealed that Mr Cull engaged former Labour MP Pete Hodgson,
in what Mr Cull described as a ‘gentleman’s
agreement’.
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