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\nGraham Bloxham.
\nPhoto: Bruce Mackay \/ The Post\n<\/p>\n
The Upper Hutt City Council has trespassed failed Wellington mayoral candidate and controversial social media figure Graham Bloxham from its offices.<\/p>\n
A council spokesperson confirmed a trespass notice was issued late last week, but did not elaborate.<\/p>\n
Bloxham, most well known for running social media site Wellington Live, entangled himself in Upper Hutt’s mayoral race – won by Peri Zee over incumbent Wayne Guppy – after he dropped out of the running for the Wellington City job at last year’s election before nominations closed.<\/p>\n
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Bloxham endorsed Guppy, posting a video interview with the eight-term mayor, but said he did so on his own volition. Guppy paid Bloxham’s company ‘Wellington In Your Pocket’ more than $9300 for social media and advertising services in the election three years before, but Guppy said he was not involved in the 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n
Bloxham accused Zee of “pumping up you ‘aggressive troll’ follower base” [sic] around the assumption he was running Guppy’s campaign. “That is defamatory. And I will take steps, legally if necessary if you continue. I hold you ‘Personally’ responsible,” he wrote in an email, copying in a reporter from The Post.<\/p>\n
Bloxham did not respond to a request for comment on the trespass notice.<\/p>\n
In an official information request for a copy of all council communications mentioning him by name, forwarded to a reporter, Bloxham said: “Peri Zees [sic] has repeatedly said she feels unsafe around me. I have not done anything to cause this un usual [sic] behaviour from a public leader, believe this is done by Zees, to give her worship a victim stage.”<\/p>\n
Police arrested Bloxham and two others after a scuffle at a protest against the US military operation in Venezuela in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Lambton Quay in mid January, but did not file charges.<\/p>\n
Bloxham live-posted details from a private Wellington City Council media training session last November, when councillor Ray Chung left an open phone line to him for 40 minutes.<\/p>\n
He has claimed to have sold Wellington Live, but remained the forefront of its social media posts. There have been no new posts on its Facebook page since 13 January.<\/p>\n
The next Upper Hutt council meeting is today at 3.30pm.<\/p>\n
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