Former Dunedin councillor Carmen Houlahan has joined the race for council’s vacant seat.<\/p>\n
Mrs Houlahan narrowly missed out in October’s Dunedin City Council election and today announced she would stand in May’s by-election.<\/p>\n
“I care deeply about this city and its people. I am open, honest and fair – not afraid to stand up for our communities, champion the arts, and support transparent decision-making,” Mrs Houlahan said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“It is an honour to serve the people of Dunedin, and the close result at the last election has only strengthened my resolve to step forward again.”<\/p>\n
\u00a0“I\u2019m ready to roll up my sleeves and get started.\u201d<\/p>\n
A by-election is required after the death of councillor Jules Radich last month and Mrs Houlahan said it was bittersweet to put her name forward following Mr Radich’s sudden death.<\/p>\n
“I am very humbled to have the support of his family with my nomination.”<\/p>\n
She finished 17th\u00a0in October’s race for 14 councillor positions.<\/p>\n
Fellow former councillors Aaron Hawkins, Andrew Whiley, Bill Acklin and Conrad Stedman have also announced their intention to stand.<\/p>\n
Other candidates in the race are Jo Galer,\u00a0Lync Aronson, Richard Knights and Pamela Taylor.<\/p>\n
Nominations close on March 2.<\/p>\n
The by-election date is May 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Dunedin councillor Carmen Houlahan has joined the race for council’s vacant seat. Mrs Houlahan narrowly missed out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-291594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}