By way of an analogy, the Hundred Days wars, circa 1815, saw Napoleon exiled, so isn't a little bit ominous for our incumbent Tauranga City Mayor with his 100 days' Tauranga identity search?
Whatever view you take, Stuart Crosby is a minority Mayor, who should, having regard to past performances, confine himself solely to ceremonial duties like cutting gala ribbons, public speaking, or opening new facilities and so forth.
Tauranga voters have overwhelmingly spelt out to Mr Crosby that he no longer has any real mandate to determine Tauranga City Council's fiscal policy.
Invoking the recently-increased Local Government Mayoral Powers, to appoint TCC committee members (seemingly without inclusive consultation involving all current councillors), looks like a forlorn attempt to play the puppetmaster and retain control of the ailing Tauranga council circus.
The sooner Tauranga gets Local Government Commissioners appointed to run Tauranga's affairs and sidelines Mr Crosby, and the manipulative TCC bureaucracy, the better for all Tauranga residents who voted overwhelmingly for a change - not more of the same old garbage.
For the avoidance of any doubt, Mr. Crosby received only 10,590 votes from the 84,672 enrolled electors being 12.50 percent support. And only 10,590 out of the 32,033 votes actually received, representsonly 33 per cent of the votes cast.
Even the doubters should be able to work that little disparity out. S Paterson, Arataki.