"Crunchy the Clown" Andrew William's drunken joke

"I represent the people of North Shore and the best interests of my citizens". Andrew Williams, North Shore Mayor.

I voted for Andrew Williams, the Loony Mayor of Auckland's North Shore, because he promised to focus on cutting costs to ratepayers and bringing an open an honest way of operating the council.

Not only are we going to get a another massive hike in rates this year but Andrew and his mates have been busy spending millions on buying beach front houses to "make parks", putting in swing bridges in Castor Bay at the bottom of his street at the cost of half a million, spending up large on food and alcohol for himself and councilors and allowing private contractors to increase their bills on Council works projects when quotes were given at a set price.

The latest money wasting exercise is William's use of over $1300 of ratepayer money (see video below) to buy private label wine at 18 bucks a bottle to give to political allies and friends.

The wine is labeled "Stop Banks" and is a reference to John Banks and his advocacy for a "Super City" for Auckland, which Williams is against because he wouldn't stand a shit show of getting anywhere near being elected, because the guy is barking.

William's priorities are wrong, he has broken most of his pre-election policies and this latest scandal should surely mean he falls on his highly paddled arsehole and give the Mayoral chains to someone who has respect for the office of Mayor and the ratepayers who have paid for his grand schemes and this latest little tawdry muck fest.

William's Mayoral term thus far has been mired in controversy, arrogance, paranoid rantings, stupidity and downright nuttiness at times.

I am truly ashamed that I voted for this mad prick. I wish I could take my vote back.

Tell Crunchy what you think of his disrespectful ways at mayor@northshorecity.govt.nz  Dont be nasty just state your opinion forcefully.

More Mad Mayoral Musings

"Crunchy the Clown" article

Breakfast TV pokes fun at Mr Williams

William's goes ballistic at North Shore Events Centre

Andrewwilliamsismad.blogspot.com

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Freedom of choice at centre of new Holiday Law

The opposition to a move by National to allow a week of employees holidays to be "sold" to employers is perplexing to say the least. 

It will mean that those employees will now have a choice to sell and or work that week and get in effect double the pay.

Unions and the Labour Party are bleating that this will effect "workers rights" but it is clear that the former setup rather than the new one impinges on those workers rights.

The new law will allow workers more freedom of choice, something the left hates.

It cannot be left to those Unionists within and outside the Labour Party (very hard to tell which is which now that Andrew Little is inside Labour) to tell vulnerable workers what to do, and how long they should take for a holiday. It is nobody else's business but the employees and employers.

Unions and their bully boy tactics are best assigned to the past, where they well and truly belong.

The only problem with the National's plan is that it will only come in April 1 2010 and it will only be for 1 week of the 4 week entitlement.

The whole 4 weeks should be up for negotiation.

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Bashing Obama for joke retarded

I'm not the worlds greatest Barack Obama supporter, in fact I think he is an evil greedy little socialist control freak, but be that as it may he certainly doesn't deserve the borax thrown at him by his own sensitive PC freak supporters for having a joke at his expense.

In an appearance Thursday night on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," President Barack Obama made a joke about his lackluster bowling skills by saying: "It was like Special Olympics or something." Kanzas City.com

But the comment caused an immediate stir in Washington and around the nation.

For Christ sake he is a well know supporter of the special Olympics and for people from all political sides to critique him for this is nothing short of brain dead moronity.

When is saying what is on your mind some sort of crime! do we want the prominent people to sanitise what they say and not say what they really mean?

Hell no!

With politicians we get enough of the flim flam, bullshit and political speak, this is the first time Obama has looked human in his political life!

No well written empty of content speeches to hide his true self and agenda.

Give him a break and let him become the man he really is.

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Leftist Economic shell games: A letter to the Editor

The Rant:

The following is from the Mesquite Local News in Nevada, in the letters to the editor page and written by one Richard N. Suter an 80 year old plus retired pilot.

It is well worth a read because it explains the blame for the current global financial mess so well and so fully.

Politicians mostly from the left in American caused this and Wall Street naturally climbed on board.

He rightly fears for his America in the hands of the insane socialists now in power and one wonders how we might expect things to get better because they are now doing what was done to get us in this mess in the first place but to the power of 10.

What is different to Bernie Madoff's shell game and Obamas?

Obama's is much bigger and the mess will be felt for generations.

The Letter:

Defending The Rich

(Letter to the Editor) 03-20-2009

I very much enjoy the Mesquite Local News.

But I have to question your tirade against the rich.

Sam Walton took an idea and built a phenomenal empire.

Bill Gates did the same.

Prior to my retirement in this lovely town, I worked as a corporate pilot for twenty five years.

I rubbed elbows with Warren Buffett in the hangar in Omaha as he deplaned, carried his own bags to a several year old Lincoln and drove to a fairly modest home.

I flew Tom Watson (IBM blue) to Eagle, Colorado.

These folks, and the multi-millionaire that employed me provided quite a few jobs, sir.

I also have carried Senator John McCain, Senator Chuck Hagle and others I can't remember as my personal responsibility.

As a retired USAF fighter pilot, I respect Senator McCain's service.

Several squadron mates and friends were privileged to serve with him in those "difficult times."

But in the course of this discussion, neither of them, nor many others in government have created a real job.

Sure, they have guaranteed pay raises, the very best health care, a short work week/month/year, and very seldom retire in poverty.

Now, if I were to pick on a gang to pillory, I would look to Foggy Bottom.

Let's start with Jimmy "Malaise" Carter, signatory to the CR(a)P, (may have mis-spelled that; could have been the CAP), lowering lending standards, coercing risky loans.

Who aided and abetted this foolishness?

Why, non other than B.J. Clinton.

Fast forward to Barney Frank, who assured us less knowledgeable that Fannie and Freddie were in great shape.

And then came the Mad Marxist with his litany of change.

And Biden.

And Pelosi.

This is the best we can do?

Well, change we got.

Hubris, banality, venality, mendacity and plain damn lies.

Almost daily I see the 21st century version of Joseph Goebbels stuttering, er, and, ah, but, stumbling his way through a "press conference."

Now I have my version of penalties for the gang.

You are far too cruel.

Bernie Madoff is going to reside in a 7.5x 8 foot Manhattan government subsidized condominium.

Please take my share of the "bailout" money, construct about 150 more of these, provide free orange jumpsuits for the criminal class in Congress, and I will die a happy old man, devoid of most of my investments, 30 or 40 percent of the value of the home I will pay for every month, and the extra money me and the missus have after groceries, gas, health care and gambling.

On second thought, let's get out the guillotine.

I am sick to death of these pissants.

My very best wishes that you may become wealthy in your endeavors.

I can only be glad, that now well into my 80th decade, I will not be around to see this great country fail.

-Richard N. Suter

Mesquite, Nevada

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