Christine Caughey

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Christine Caughey is a City Councillor in Auckland City for the Action Hobson ticket. She was successful on gaining election in 2004 on an anti-motorway platform in coalition with current Auckland Mayor Dick Hubbard and leading left wing ticket,City Vision. The Action Hobson ticket is in competition with the Citizens and Ratepayers Now ticket in the centre-right leaning Hobson Ward. Caughey holds the chairmanship of the Environment Heritage and Urban Form Committee.

Since the 2004 election, Caughey and her fellow Action Hobson colleague Richard Simpson have come under significant criticism for their broken promises on rates and support for the left leaning City Vision ticket, despite promises to vote conservatively. Caughey herself is a former City Vision candidate, having unsuccessfully stood for City Vision in a community board by-election in 2003.