Recently, I emailed the three groups who have identifiable National Party members in them to ask how they could claim 'independence' when this seems such a simple contradiction to their position.
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The NP is embedded in Groups B (Miller), F (Smith) and J (Roberts) with one, two and three candidates respectively.
To his credit Jeremy Miller was the only candidate/group to offer an explanation. I note that Roberts has identified having "National values" on his electoral material.
Which reminds me of the many times I have contacted former councillors as an executive member of a local educational and social organisation and as an individual ratepayer to receive no response.
Be wary of those candidates who claim loudest to care about communicating better via consulting, listening and responding to ratepayer and /or community concerns - in my experience they mostly do not or just give it lip service.
Chris Abbott
Taree
(Chris is not affiliated to any political party or any group or individual standing.)
