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Ryan Bridge: Tony Randle is the sort of brain needed around the council table · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Tony Randall was exactly the type of person, the sort
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  Speaker 1: of brain that you wanted sitting around a council table.
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  Speaker 1: Is specially given the types who now seem to occupy
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  Speaker 1: many of the seats. It's very sad to hear of
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  Speaker 1: his passing my condolences to his family and those knew
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  Speaker 1: him well. For those who didn't, Tony was a counselor
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  Speaker 1: and Wellington. He sat in the northern Ward. He was
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  Speaker 1: the guy you would call when you wanted to know
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  Speaker 1: the facts of a case, when you wanted to know
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  Speaker 1: the numbers. Tony was the guy who found just a
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  Speaker 1: wee mistake in the council's modeling when they were lowering
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  Speaker 1: speed limits in the Capitol. Remember that not a single
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  Speaker 1: counselor or council officer, staff member, council paid Boffin picked
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  Speaker 1: up on the mistake. It was out by two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars. Tony did. He consistently complained that
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  Speaker 1: the Council wasn't fully funding Wellington waters projects, meaning the
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  Speaker 1: pipes weren't getting fixed. He was only there since twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. He was analytical and not particularly partisan. Too
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  Speaker 1: often you hear of local and national politicians getting into
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  Speaker 1: office who probably shouldn't be there. They've no particular skills
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  Speaker 1: or background to justify it. They're elected by a margin
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  Speaker 1: of a few hundred or even a few dozen votes
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  Speaker 1: by a public that doesn't really pay close attention to
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  Speaker 1: the details. As a result, you get politicians who also
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  Speaker 1: don't pay attention to the details. Tony Randall did, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what made him special. Voters deserve more analytical thinkers
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  Speaker 1: in local government who are across the facts and the numbers,
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  Speaker 1: rather than ticking a box on their way into Parliament
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  Speaker 1: all the United Nations where you get the sense that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these guys really wish they could be
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