Marcus Lush doesn’t want to be a ‘celebrity mayor’
The Spinoff Daily, Tuesday September 20
Ahiahi mārie.
Today on The Spinoff, why won’t the health minister say the word “fat” in the new episode of Alice Snedden’s Bad News? Plus: Shanti Mathias talks to Queenstown locals about the town’s tourism future and Alex Casey and Tara Ward watch all the live news coverage of the Queen’s funeral.
But first: “I’m not a Kardashian, it’s not like I’ve done a sex tape.”
Those were the words of Invercargill mayoral hopeful Marcus Lush when Stewart Sowman-Lund put to him the suggestion made by some of his rivals that he’s a “celebrity” riding a wave of name recognition to the mayoralty. “That’s bullshit,” he also said.
Stewart interviewed the Newstalk ZB evenings host at his home in Bluff last week, the night after a lively mayoral debate in town, about his aspirations for our southernmost city.
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