\u201cMost people my age are getting ready for a ride on the Zimmer frame,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAge is just a number and the transgender thing is really … I think people in Westland are more interested in what\u2019s between my ears than what was between my legs 55 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Provisional local election results would be confirmed on Sunday and the final results declared on October 16.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe there were 400 votes left to count, but it\u2019s trending in the right way,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Grant, who runs a sock shop, was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the community in 1997 and promoted to Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2018.<\/p>\n
She has campaigned on capping rates and taking back control and said people in Westland wanted real change.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re suffering, because of the high rates bills, and they want someone who\u2019s got the balls, I guess, to do it,\u201d Grant said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople just can\u2019t afford to keep paying and paying, and we need to get that message through to central Government.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grant described just how tough some were doing it in her community.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got neighbours who are living in one room in winter, because they can\u2019t afford to heat their house,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s not the way we want to live in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople who own their own homes should be reasonably rich or well-off, but they\u2019re not \u2013 they can\u2019t afford to maintain them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMost people my age are getting ready for a ride on the Zimmer frame,\u201d she said. \u201cAge is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[836,57586,4193,3595,4194,5906,7797,2347,78,57584,22055,440,21168,111,43,139,69,7798,5654,7246,57585],"class_list":["post-73240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-836","tag-57586","tag-alexa","tag-by","tag-cook","tag-count","tag-elections","tag-grant","tag-in","tag-jacquie","tag-leads","tag-local","tag-mayoral","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-race","tag-tight","tag-votes","tag-westland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73240","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=73240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}