Trust me, I’m exonerated

Stuff reports:

Porirua Mayor Mike Tana is refusing to release an auditor’s report into his fuel spending, but insists its findings exonerate him.

I would have thought if you were exonerated, you’d be really really keen to release it.

Porirua Council CE Wendy Walker said she intended to release the report on Thursday but the mayor had asked her not to, “because of privacy concerns”. The council took legal advice before complying with Tana’s request.

So the Council wants to released, just not the Mayor.

Tana said he didn’t want the report released because it might affect his campaign, but said it cleared him.

I would have thought being cleared would help his campaign.

In figures obtained by Stuff in a 2018 Official Information Request, from December 2016 to November 2018 Tana used $12,354 worth of petrol.

Let’s assume $2 per litre so that is 6,175 litres used in two years. On an average of 100 km per 12 litres that is around 51,500 kms travelled which is equal to 80 trips from Auckland to Wellington.

The Mayor is allowed to use the Mayoral car for personal use. It would seems he certainly does.