{"id":9486,"date":"2016-08-02T07:43:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T18:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9486"},"modified":"2016-08-02T07:43:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T18:43:18","slug":"minto-for-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9486","title":{"rendered":"Minto for Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christchurch Mayoral candidate John Minto is delighted the council has decided not to sell its works company City Care.<\/div>\n
\u201cI\u2019m standing as a Keep Our Assets Canterbury candidate and stopping the sale of City Care and other council assets is at the top of our policy platform\u201d.<\/div>\n
\u201cThis is a victory for the people of Christchurch who have always been overwhelmingly opposed to the sale of city assets\u201d<\/div>\n
The sale of city assets was sprung on the people of Christchurch after the last local body elections. It was it was never raised as a possibility before the election by the Mayor or any of the seven councillors who supported her initiative to sell assets.<\/div>\n
We want a mayor and council elected who will pledge not to sell assets.<\/div>\n
In the meantime we are chalking up one policy victory with five to go.<\/div>\n
The other policies we will be fighting to win through the campaign are:<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Free and frequent public transport (as far out as Rangiora, Darfield and Rolleston) to be funded from the money saved by rescheduling the big roading projects<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The living wage paid as a minimum for all council work (funded by managing down the salaries of senior council managers)<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Swimmable rivers across Canterbury<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1000 new council homes for rent and rent to buy over the next three years<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 End the corporate stranglehold on the rebuild with stiff rate increases on undeveloped land in the CBD<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christchurch Mayoral candidate John Minto is delighted the council has decided not to sell its works company City Care. \u201cI\u2019m standing as a Keep Our Assets Canterbury candidate and stopping the sale of City Care and other council assets is at the top of our policy platform\u201d. \u201cThis is a victory for the people of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9488,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/revisions\/9488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}