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[TITLE] Video no. 2: Responding to the PM’s ‘dying’ comments
[SPOKEN] Hi I’m Jack Yan I’m running for Mayor of Wellington.
[TEXT] Back-Jack Yan for Mayor of Wellington
[SPOKEN] Early today, on the front page of the Dominion Post, we learned the Prime Minister said that, the city is dying. Now I know John Key has since taken back those comments but I thought I’d go around asking business owners here in Cuba Street just what they thought of what he said.
[TEXT] Is Wellington dying?
Tom Reidy
CEO, Catalyst 90
[SPOKEN] Wellington’s such a vibrant full of so many awesome things, we’ve got so many great businesses here. It’s also a thriving hub of start-ups, um I think a statement like that is just, is just absurd.
Mr Key needs to talk to people who are actually trying to work, live, raise children, in our vibrant cultural capital.
[TEXT] Kay Larsen Datastream
Instant Print
[SPOKEN] You look where students wanna go, you know young people wanna go they wanna come to Wellington ’cause it’s much more vibrant, it’s much more artistic
[TEXT] John Mills
John Mills Architect
[SPOKEN]it’s starting, starting out on a lower, lower level because Auckland’s full of commuters and rich housing and it’s, there’s opportunity here for creative industries, in architecture school, design school, um craft beer, artists all setting themselves here and Government just needs to show some leadership.
There’s been a lot of talk about making Wellington
[TEXT] Paul Jacobs
Creative Director, Jobgram
[TEXT] like, um, “Silicon-Welly” and everything like that and we-we’re seeing pockets of that you know with, with ah with TradeMe and Xero and, and you know we’ve got, we’ve got lots of entrepreneurial people down here. I think there is, there is a risk of, of losing a lot of that talent as maybe head offices move to Auckland etc
This is the capital city, if you were that concerned about it you wouldn’t stop so many government jobs now again my viewpoint on that is that Government should always be run like a business but I think there’s a lot more that Government could be doing to support Wellington and I think there’s a lot more the Government could be doing to support the general economic development.
So there you have it, some opinions from local Wellington business owners. Now, I know there are few things we can sort out, but maybe that’s up to us in the polls later this year. We’ll catch you later. I’m Jack Yan, running for Mayor of Wellington.
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The interviewees in this video do not necessarily endorse Jack Yan’s mayoral campaign, and agreed to appear to give their opinions on business and politics.
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