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My local council election results are in. The independent-but-member--of-the-Liberal-party candidate won, with a narrow member over the independent-but-maybe-corrupt candidate. Hopefully this means I can stop looking at the candidate's names and getting "Mr Brightside" stuck in my head (as the other candidate's name is Emily Brightside) 🤣
They're still counting in my electorate. In my ward nobody got more than 50% of the vote so they're still divvying up the preferences.
Mine got to about 43% & 46% with first preferences, so just had to count enough of the third candidates preferences to get over the 50% line.
Jells. I'm in kingston, we just copped a fucking antivaxx cooker
Oh, yes I think I saw something about that (at least I hope it was about the same person, otherwise there's more of them).
I just had a candidate involved in controversy over a not-for-profit gym, which has been having problems with Council who have assessed them as actually making a profit. I have no idea whether the gym is being unfairly treated or there is something dodgy going on with it, but I got a bit sus when I saw the gym (which she is on the board of) was paying for her Facebook ads. Then I got a letter from someone doing a mail-out highlighting that she has been involved in the controversy, and that there are three people who are involved standing for Council in a presumed effort to overturn the Council decision about the gym. I don't really want someone who is going into the job purely for their own private agenda, so I'm pretty happy she did not win.