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Ryan Bridge: Luxon's broadside to local governments should be telling him that he's on the right track
The reactions overnight to Luxon's broadside to the mayors and the local councils in Wellington yesterday should be telling him that he's pretty much on the right track.
He got stuck in overspending on dumb stuff, his words, like convention centres, at the expense of basic stuff like leaky pipes.
"I think the building that we're in today is a classic example, with pipes bursting and quite literally this morning pipes bursting on the streets not far from here. And it looks very nice and it's great and it's very nice for us politicians to have a wonderful space to make some great speeches in…
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