Tim Shadbolt
| Timothy Richard Shadbolt | |
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| 42nd Mayor of Invercargill | |
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Assumed office 1998 |
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In office 1993–1995 |
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| Mayor of Waitemata City | |
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In office 1983–1989 |
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| Born |
19 February 1947 Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis New Zealand First (Past) |
| Spouse(s) | first marriage (one son) Miriam Cameron (two sons, divorced) |
| Domestic partner | Asha Dutt |
| Children | three adult sons and one newborn son |
Timothy Richard "Tim" Shadbolt (born 19 February 1947) is a New Zealand politician. He is the Mayor of Invercargill and was previously Mayor of Waitemata City.
Shadbolt was born in the Auckland suburb of Remuera in 1947. His father died in a flying accident in 1952. He was on the school council and appointed prefect.
Shadbolt became a founding student of Rutherford College, Auckland, and attended The University of Auckland from 1966 to 1970, taking a year off in 1967 to work on the Manapouri Power Project in Southland. He was a member of the Auckland University Students Association executive, and editor of Craccum in 1972. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he became prominent in the Progressive Youth Movement, a radical left-wing organisation, and was arrested 33 times during political protests, most famously for using the word "bullshit"; this incident influenced the title of his autobiography.
After 1970, he founded a commune and concrete cooperative at Huia. He wrote an autobiography, Bullshit & Jellybeans.
Shadbolt claims he stood for Mayor of Waitemata City in 1983 because he did not want to see the incumbent Tony Covic re-elected unopposed. He won the election. He famously celebrated, much to some people's disgust, by towing his concrete mixer (named "Karl Marx") behind the mayoral Daimler in the 1983 Henderson Christmas parade. He won again in 1986 heading a political ticket called "Tim's Team", but in 1989 lost the following mayoral election in the newly formed Waitakere city (an enlarged Waitemata city) to Assid Corban. During his term as mayor he became infamous by twice losing the mayoral chains.
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