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.

Christine Caughey is an advocate of free buses. She confirmed this policy at a meeting of the Socialist Worker organised "Climaction" protest meeting in November 2006. This policy, according to the Climaction protest network, was to be funded from taxing the rich and corporations.

In December 2006, Christine Caughey and Richard Simpson were alleged by the Herald on Sunday newspaper to have had conflicts of interest in voting for events at council that they were instrumental in organising.

[edit] External links

• List of Auckland City Councillors
• Link to Christine Caughey's CV on Auckland City's website
• Action Hobson's website