Canterbury Mornings

Former Christchurch Mayor Garry Moore has joined a growing list of high profile Christchurch residents condemning People’s Choice.  Members of the Labour aligned group want to roll Linwood-Central-Heathcote Community Board Chair Alexandra Davids.Yesterday Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel praised Davids as hard-working and community-minded.Today Garry Moore echoed those comments, but went one step further describing the actions of People’s Choice as “disgraceful stuff.”He said “People’s Choice are abusing an incoming member for political reasons and it’s wrong. “It follows the recent by-election, which resulted in People’s Choice candidate Sunita Gautam being elected to the board with 958 votes.Moore told Chris Lynch former Chair Sally Buck knew she was dying and she stood down for her deputy (Davids) and that was her wish.“From my perspective that is the way it should stay.”“I think Alex is a very good community person and I don’t approve of these games in politics.”“It’s about numbers and being tribal. It’s