{"id":358614,"date":"2026-04-01T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358614\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:22:11","slug":"failed-wellington-mayoral-candidate-trespassed-from-upper-hutt-council-offices-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358614\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed Wellington mayoral candidate trespassed from Upper Hutt council offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Bloxham accused Zee of \u201cpumping up you [sic] \u2018aggressive troll\u2019 follower base\u201d over an assumption he was running Guppy\u2019s campaign. \u201cThat is defamatory. And I will take steps, legally if necessary if you continue. I hold you \u2018Personally\u2019 responsible,\u201d he wrote in an email, copying in a reporter from The Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Bloxham did not respond to a request for comment on the trespass notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">In an official information request for a copy of all council communications mentioning him by name, which was forwarded to a reporter, Bloxham said: \u201cPeri Zees has repeatedly said she feels unsafe around me. I have not done anything to cause this un usual behaviour from a public leader, believe this is done by Zees, to give her worship a victim stage [sic].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">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<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">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<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">He has claimed to have sold Wellington Live, but remained at the forefront of its social media posts. There have been no new posts on its Facebook page since January 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">The next Upper Hutt council meeting was today at 3.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Local Democracy Reporting (LDR) is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bloxham accused Zee of \u201cpumping up you [sic] \u2018aggressive troll\u2019 follower base\u201d over an assumption he was running&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19956,5205,12513,71,49947,21168,111,43,139,69,33027,41111,25448,52],"class_list":["post-358614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-candidate","tag-council","tag-failed","tag-from","tag-hutt","tag-mayoral","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-offices","tag-trespassed","tag-upper","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358614","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=358614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}