The mayor and his late night dexts!

I have always known that North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams is an embarrassment and his latest actions have only reconfirmed this fact.
The latest evidence comes with the news that Prime Minister John Key has become another target of "obnoxious" and "aggressive" texts that arrive in the wee hours of the morning from the North Shore Mayor.
Williams – who has been labelled the ‘Lunatic of Lake Road’, the ‘Mad Mayor’ and the ‘Clown of Campbell’s Bay’ among other names - has long had a reputation as a late night abuser and for sending angry emails, text messages and voice mails to colleagues, council staff and others.
This latest incident follows a long line of late night/early morning dexting [drunken texting] that Williams has become infamous for. In October, he emailed his mayoral predecessor George Wood about 11.30pm describing him as a "buffoon" and a "disgruntled, failed has-been", as well as leaving abusive messages on his voicemail.
I had the misfortune of working at North Shore Council for six or so months when Williams was first elected. And in that short period of time he had alienated half his council, abused local reporters and was already carving out his well-earned reputation for sending obnoxious and abusive emails in the wee small hours to council staff.
One would have thought that by now if someone had not pulled Williams into line over his regular text abuse of councillors, reporters and staff – then they may want to point out that text abusing the PM at 3 am is not a great way to enhance either your own, your council’s or your city’s credibility.
The PM has rightly ignored Williams' texts. As he says: "They're never worthy of a reply. The messages were in an aggressive tone...I'm not going to respond to obnoxious messages at this time of the morning."
The PM said the messages became public because a reporter who knew about them had called him and asked about them. Key says Mr Williams "tended to rant and rave" about Auckland's new super city council and the messages sometimes disturbed his sleep.
When asked what time was too late to text people such as the prime minister, Williams confirmed his buffoonery and stupidity by replying: "Are text messages time-sensitive are they? "Sometimes something pops into your head and you send off a message."
No Andrew, wrong! As pointed out earlier, this kind of dexting may explain away the actions for an early morning text message to an ex, following a big night on the town, because the Dexter wants a drunken shag. But it falls way short of appropriate behaviour for the Mayor of the country’s fourth largest city to be communicating with the nation’s prime minister!
Now we hear that Williams says he can't remember sending a text message to Prime Minister at such an ungodly hour! He told news media didn't recall sending a message to Mr Key at 3.30am, although he admitted he sent many messages late at night and some were to all the North Shore MPs.
Williams has suggested there was a conspiracy against him and the text message were being raised now because he strongly opposed a bill that was going through Parliament this week setting up the laws around the new super city.
Wrong again, Andrew! As someone who has had his own problems with the sauce, I suggest Mr Williams is exhibiting all the behaviours of a man who likes to loosen up his email and text communications with a bottle or four of cheap and nasty plonk. The guy is obviously an angry, nasty, serial Dexter [for those of you who missed it earlier, this is a person who gets drunk and then sends off texts and emails rants] and he needs serious help.
The good news is it is less than 12 months away until the new Auckland Council comes into force and the North Shore Council and its embarassing Mayor will disappear. All we will be left with are the shameful feelings and hazy memories of North Shore City's last mayor’s embarrassing behaviour. A bit like a nasty hangover – which I am sure Andrew Williams is all too familiar with!