Clyde Graf

Clyde Graf chose not to record a candidate profile.

Candidate statement

Rates Control Team

My principal place of residence is not in the Waipa-King Country General Constituency area.

Over the last seven years Waikato Regional Council has increased its number of staff by over 100. Rates continue to skyrocket, and yet it seems harder to get things done.

Regional councils are complicating the delivery of essential services, and enabling divisive co-governance legislation. They are top-heavy bureaucracies that are past their use-by-date.

During this last term I voted against the endless rates increases we’ve all endured. Other councillors share this concern too, and so we’ve formed the Rates Control Team, a group of candidates dedicated to keeping your rates below the CPI.

We’re also concerned about the ever-increasing creep of co-governance in freshwater legislation. I stand for one governance for all, not a divisive, apartheid regime.

A vote for me is a vote for an inclusive Waikato, a vote to support primary producers, to oppose co-governance, and to get your rates down.

www.ratescontrolteam.co.nz

Candidate profile

027 446 7610
thegrafboys@xtra.co.nz
Waipā-King Country