Wellington Regional Council scrambles to remove ads

Wellington's Regional Council scrambled to remove ads promoting a career in bus driving after it discovered a string of racist tweets by one of its poster boys. Official information obtained by RNZ shows the council asked its staff to front a campaign explaining why they became drivers in an attempt to encourage others to do the same. Staff later pulled almost twenty thousand dollars' worth of material after a member of the public sent them offensive tweets by one of the drivers. The Greater Wellington Regional Council's public transport general manager Greg Pollock told reporter Katie Scotcher they didn't think it was appropriate to keep the ads up.