Brendon Burns wins Christchurch Central

Brendon Burns will be delighted to have won the Labour nomination for Christchurch Central. With nine candidates, no-one would have been complacent.

Brendon is a former editor of the Marlborough Express. He’s stood twice for Kaikoura so will see this as third time lucky.

He spent a few years heading up the communications unit in the PM’s Office, and since then has been doing private consultancy work.

I met him when he was doing the comms for a Digital Cities conference, and InternetNZ hired him to do the comms works for the major (ICANN) conference held in March 2006, for which I chaired the organising committee. So have had a bit to do with Brendon, and pleased to see him win the nomination.

It’s a pity that neither Labour nor National are updating their websites with confirmed candidates. I met set up a couple of pages here, if the parties do not, so people can see who is standing where.