Roger Gordon was at Mike Pettit’s election party when he got the call telling him he had been successful in retaining his Waipā District Council Cambridge ward seat.
Roger Gordon’s delight at hearing he would be back in council for the next three years. Photo: Viv Posselt
After throwing his arms in the air in a gesture of relief, he threw them around wife Jo, without whose consenting ‘nod’ he wouldn’t have entered the fray at all.
Now Gordon is looking forwards to another three years working with whatever council is formed to advance Cambridge’s various causes, and Jo is looking forward to having her man busy and out of the house.
“If he wasn’t, chances are he’d sit at home and tell me he knows all about housework… he hasn’t done any for 50 odd years,” she laughed.
“I’m looking forwards to more debates and discussions around the council table,” Roger Gordon said. “But I do realise that regardless of what I think should happen, it has to be collaborative. Jo and I were in business for many years… we could control the decisions made. That doesn’t happen in council.”
He admitted to having new ideas bubbling away in his head and said Cambridge had been up against some real challenges over the past three years, some of it generating strong responses from the community.
“It’s been a period of time when a lot has happened, but I’m excited to see where this new council takes us. It will be all go from here on … and, of course, I’m mindful that Jo doesn’t want to see me under her feet.”
His second big tick came from wife Jo, who expressed relief that Roger won’t be under her feet at home. Photo: Viv Posselt
