Tauranga City Council Election Advertisement 29 April 2024
Total disrespect for the process. Voters elect councillors and the mayor, the council does not hire them. Undue unfluence on the type of person they want to haveas a councillor. Is this a contnuation the Commissioner’s lack of resoect for the ratepayer and meddling again.
If you do not like this, please make a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority. Use this image in your complaint. Just go online to do this.
PRRA made a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority. Others also made the same complaint. The ASA decided that no standards were breached. Click here to read the full ASA determination.
The second complainant listed five issues: the advertisement showed “no respect” and did not represent the process correctly as councillors were voted in, not hired; the text tried “to manipulate the type of candidate the council would like to see stand”; there was “undue influence” happening and the council was “trying to mould the prospective councillors”; the council was doing “too much” and should be “hands off” after announcing the election; the council was trying to influence the electoral process and use of the word “hiring” indicated it would “control” the elected councillors.
Click here to read the full Advertising Standards Authority Detemination.
