Kerry Prendergast: former Wellington mayor says elected officials should be expected to follow higher standards - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

A former Wellington Mayor says elected officials should hold themselves to a high standard.

Restaurant patrons claim Wellington mayor Tory Whanau was clearly intoxicated, at a bar on Friday.

She forgot to pay her bill and settled up the next day.

Kerry Prendergast says ratepayers have been commenting about it to her.

"Most of them feel the same as what I'm communicating to you- that you diminish the respect and mana of the office if you do the sorts of things she's alleged to have done."

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