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When residents have a gripe about rain, stray dogs, berm maintenance, or even a tree root, they call their councillor. Today The Detail is calling those councillors, too.
Bryan Cadogan has 27 years of local politics stories up his sleeve, but the 2am phone call from a furious resident takes the cake.
The former Clutha mayor picked up the phone to hear a demand that he do something about the roadworks clamour outside the resident's house.
"They were absolutely goin' off at me, calling me all the words under the sun."
"What the hell's wrong?" Cadogan asked.
The answer:
"You're rippin' up the road right in front of my house at two o'clock in the morn
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