A message to the local body election candidates: Would you please stop putting irrelevant personal information in your ‘vote for me' spiels. I really couldn't give two hoots if you have been married to the lovely Mary for 40 years, or have seven beautiful children, or enjoy kayaking and bobsledding. I want to know why I should vote for you, what you are going to do for Tauranga, how you stand on important issues like rates and the like; and I don't care about your hobbies or family.
In fact, if you have so many kids and grandkids and exciting pastimes how do you think you will have time to do council work? You don't put personal information on a CV, so why plaster it all over your election advertising?

H Auld, Welcome Bay.