Originally Posted by
Blue Skies
This is all on Auckland's Mayor Wayne Brown, there's call for him to resign & even a petition started. It's a local State of Emergency not a national one.
The ministers & even leader of opposition were calling on him to do something, communicate with Aucklanders, instead he was invisible, & when he did finally speak he's all defensive, antagonistic, agro, extraordinary - even the deputy Mayor had to pull him away from reporters when he got testy.
He has no idea what the role of the mayor on NZ's largest city in a crisis is.
When people needed the mayor to provide leadership, guidance on where shelters were, reassurance he was useless.
It was even up to the Minister to tell Waka Kotahi to keep giving updates every half hour.
You're welcome to him. Please take him.
It was Effeso Collins at 2am giving advice on where emergency shelters were, when Brown had retired for the night.
People saying it shows how brilliant Jacinda Ardern was in a crisis. You want want to hear that though of course.