It’s cheesy, but true. Marcus Lush has found that the world’s his oyster in Bluff.
When the popular broadcaster moved to Southland – not for a radio job, but more for solace after simply “getting sick of Auckland” – he had no idea that 20 years down the track, he’d be putting his hat in the ring to be Invercargill’s next mayor.
Or that contentment would be found clearing gorse with his two young boys.
The 57-year-old will take on Sir Tim Shadbolt, who has been Invercargill’s mayor for the past 24 years, along with nine other candidates vying to win the local election on October 8.
He won’t be hanging up his microphone though and plans to continue hosting his top-rating nightly talkback show on Newstalk ZB.
As they sit in their kitchen with the Sunday afternoon sun streaming in, Marcus and partner Vanessa Underwood, 34, are relaxed about the mayoral outcome. They’ve just spent the morning putting up campaign posters with sons Tracker, eight, and Denver, six.
‘I’m a bit shy.
