Day 34 wha (four)

ODT

Kia ora Jacqueline,

I hope this email finds you well. I've been told you're preparing to host a public meeting this Sunday - I was hoping you might be able to provide further information?

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards,
Ben Tomsett



Tena koe Ben,
Thank you for your inquiry.

Would you like to provide written questions?
That might be the easiest way.

This is short notice for our Southland Express - hence I could answer with writing if you're thinking this is of public interest.
Otherwise, if ODT is interested, I could make time to meet you on Thursday if you wanted.
I'm fully booked up tomorrow.

If you're just wanting to know whether supper is provided - sorry, no. I can't afford that. It will just be tea and coffee.

Kia ora,

Jacqueline

 

 

Cheers for the promt reply. I just have a few questions:

To my knowledge you're currently the only mayoral candidate who has hosted their own public meeting, what are your reasons for doing so?

Do you have other speakers planned?

What do you plan on being your main discussion topics?

Cheers Jacqueline. At the moment I'm not sure if there is a story here, but in the overarching narrative of local-election happenings this may be involved in a later write up.
Thanks for your time.
  



To my knowledge you're currently the only mayoral candidate who has hosted their own public meeting, what are your reasons for doing so?
I was walking past Club Southland the other day and thought of it at that moment, so I popped in and made a booking.
My campaign diary has been serving me well. I started that on the spur of the moment too and it does my morale good.
Stuff's Blair Jackson twice said he was working on a story, collating all the mayoral candidates' responses to his questions, and it never eventuated.
Without my steps of action, the silence would be a raging tinnitus.

Do you have other speakers planned?
There will be opportunities for others to speak as they desire.
It may turn out that others speak more than I do.

What do you plan on being your main discussion topics?
It is imperative that we as a nation get this not our PM to resign.
I have an idea for this meeting, but this is not the discussion topic. She is beyond discussing.
However, this is the best way I can answer your question.
First things first.
In offering to serve as the mayor, the best way to respect the rate payers is to be upfront about my personality and character.

Ben, I am giving you the opportunity to actually report the news.
Your concept of an overarching theme in hindsight is absurd.





Hi again Jacqueline,

Thanks for your encompassing answers, your time is much appreciated and your passion is clear. Unfortuantely I cannot write a story focusing on any single candidate (neither I, nor my colleagues have done or would do this as this would amount to endorsement), however your own meeting may feature into our planned write up following Wedensdays debate. Apologies if any offense was taken, it was not intended. 





Offence?
Never.

On the offensive, yes.

No, of course you couldn't do anything of meaning with my responses.
You just asked, that's all.
 
 
 
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Hey Ben,
I just had a cool idea.
How would you like to report on Ludlow's and Bailey's denying a little woman her voice and the trouble the community is having with the trustees?
I never thought of asking. I was stuck on Stuff.
Could you get this news out into tomorrow's ODT?
The Great Debate is tomorrow night. 

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