Hitting the fan Russell Brown's Hard News
Well, you know things have become a tad frisky when you're having Titewhai Harawira mediating for you, don't you? But even if John Banks, Dick Hubbard and Christine Fletcher can agree to henceforth play nice, it can hardly change the fact that this has been the nastiest campaign in the lamentable history of Auckland local body politics.

The chickens were coming home to roost as I began writing this post, with the news that John Banks' campaign manager (and Act party fixer) Brian Nicolle had resigned after a meeting with the mayor.

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