Wayne Brown: Auckland mayor announces bid to run for re-election in October

Auckland's mayor is asking for the chance to finish the job he's started.

Wayne Brown will run again for the city's top job in October - saying he's delivered on most of the policies he set out to achieve when first elected in 2022.

He says Auckland ratepayers should back him again.

"We expect to deliver the lowest rate rises in the country, we expect to deliver value for everything."

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The world's worst kept secret auklid Mere. Wayne Brown wants
three more years from you our super city, Thank you
very much. He's launched his bid for reelection today.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
He's with me, Hi, Wayne, you get that run.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're not sick of it yet.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, at least this one is an English So the
last one was in Chinese, which I do speak a
little bit of. So there you go.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
No, not talking about the interview, I'm talking about the job.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Ah. Well, it's like the curre of segot has good.
It's good in part. No, I think I'm there you
go again because I want to. I've made a lot
of progress and delivered most of what I promised, but
I'd want to another three years. All that be locked in.
It won't be unusual to stop wasting money. It'll be

(00:46):
the way that they properly behave. It won't be unusual
for at to listen to the public and stop doing
dumb stuff. You know, it'll be rocked in that. We
expect to deliver the last rate rises in the country,
expect to do deliver value for everything. Those things are
still novel and they could be rested. I want those
to be the normal ongoing behavior. We will behave like

(01:10):
we're looking after the money as it was our. There's
something or other I've been working on trying to get
the staff to spend the way is if it was their,
not just it's somebody else's.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Geez, you're on message this evening, Wayne. It's good to
have you. I've been watching your videos on social media
and you've been down in the city looking at the
you know, the cone town that the cone apocalypse has
taken over. How frustrating is it that you're the mayor
of Auckland and you've got basically no say and all
of the stuff happening.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, at the end of last year, I got a
unanimous support from the council, which is pretty hard to get.
I got to tell you to change take back control
of CEOs, which was one of my five policies that
took me the longest to get underway with the at
It does require that government to change some legislation and

(02:03):
I've agreed to do that. There's about three pieces of
legislation and need them to change. And the frustrating part
of the government doesn't move as quickly as I do.
But they're going to have to speed up. I mean
the visa changes have to be that requires a change.
The Midnight Levy requires a bit of legislation, but none
of the legislation I'm asking in the government that cost
them any money. So I can't say I have got money.

(02:24):
Just get on with the job, and a strong mayor
is in a better position to do that. So I
need to come back with a big, strong result.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
What about Desley? What's happening with Desley?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, she's my deputy mayor and she's she will continue
to be part of the team until she decides not
to be part of the team. And I think she's
she's still continuing as part of the team and that's good.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Oh, that's good. So she'll continue on and then you'd
be happy to have her back next time as a deputy.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, the next time. You don't do that until you
see who it gets in. Some people will retire, some
new people will come. I didn't make a decision until
well after I won. I actually I had to meet
them all and pind out what they want to do
and who's happy to do what I want to do.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
So, but you'll definitely stay on to the end of
this term as your deputy.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Well is what she said? You say she's happy to
work on with me, and then they'll be where it
sits at the moment.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Oh that's good. And she's not running against you.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
This stage, not that I know. I mean, if she
did do that, that might require a reconsideration. But so
he stays here. We're working as a team and that's
what I expected to happen.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
All right, Wayne, Thanks very much for coming on tonight.
Wayne Brown, who wants to be the mayor of Auckland
one more time and it sounds like Desley. If you
try and go for that, you might just lose your
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