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25 September 2013

Mayor Will Target Alcohol, Brothels, Pokies, Loan Sharks

The leading candidates for the Auckland mayoralty have all pledged to take strong action against alcohol outlets and trading hours, residential brothels, pokies, and loan sharks.

Family First has asked the top four polling Auckland Super City Mayoral candidates about their views on a number of important family issues including alcohol outlets, street prostitution, housing affordability, offensive billboards, loan sharks and pokie machines, including the mega-brothel and the SkyCity Pokie deal with the government.

“The response of the candidates to these controversial issues of alcohol, brothels, pokies and loan sharks is especially encouraging when the politicians have been dragging their feet on these issues,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.

“Also of interest is that regarding brothels in residential areas and near sensitive sites, Mayor Len Brown has moved from a ‘not sure’ status in our 2010 survey to a definite ‘yes’ in this survey, and seems keen to review bylaws which have allowed mega-brothels such as the Chow Brothers ‘sex hotel’.”
“Len Brown is the only candidate wanting to take strong action against street prostitution nuisance currently dragging its way through Parliament,” says Mr McCoskrie.

Unfortunately he is not willing to join the other candidates in a pledge to introduce bylaws and lobby for G-rated public billboards with a pre-vetting system.

There are some interesting comments from all candidates around the area of affordable housing and development. John Palino and Len Brown are also not willing to campaign for Parliament to remove GST on rates. John Palino and Uesifili Unasa are keen to see offensive parades such as Boobs on Bikes banned.

“We hope that this questionnaire will assist voters in Auckland to vote for a mayor who values the same things that they value as a family,” says Mr McCoskrie.

2013 Survey http://valueyourvote.org.nz/supercity-2013/
2010 Survey http://valueyourvote.org.nz/supercity-2010/
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