Original sentence: Action Hobson's website.Caughey herself is a former City Vision candidate, having unsuccessfully stood for City Vision in a community board by-election in 2003.Christine Caughey is a City Councillor in Auckland City for the Action Hobson ticket.However, Caughey and Simpson have argued that they tried to broker compromises on a politically splintered council, such as on the billboards and signs laws.She was awarded Metro Magazine's Aucklander of the Year in 2004, primarily for the role she played in politically defeating the Eastern Transport Corridor roading element that was proposed for Hobson Bay by the Waitemata Harbour.She was successful on gaining election in 2004 on an anti-motorway platform in coalition with current Auckland Mayor Dick Hubbard and leading left wing ticket, City Vision (New Zealand Labour Party, Alliance and [Green Party] grouping) and Labour.Since the 2004 election, Caughey and her fellow Action Hobson colleague Richard Simpson have come under significant criticism regarding alleged broken promises on rates in 2005 and again in 2006.They have also been criticised for alleged support for the left leaning City Vision ticket, despite pre-election claims they were conservative
Edited sentence: Caughey is also an advocate of free buses and public transport.Christine Caughey is a City Councillor in Auckland City for the Action Hobson ticket and was Metro magazine's Aucklander of the Year in 2004.Her Action Hobson ticket has no affiliation with any other group on the council and sits in the centre between the right-wing C&R Now group and the left-leaning City Vision/Labour group.In December 2006, Christine Caughey and Richard Simpson were alleged by the Herald on Sunday newspaper to have had conflicts of interest in voting for events at council that they were instrumental in organising but this is refuted by both Caughey and Simpson.New Zealand's Auditor-General however found the claims had no substance.She was successful on gaining election in 2004 on an independent anti-motorway platform.Simpson was criticised by the Chief Executive of Auckland City regarding his participation in arguing for funds for these events.Since the 2004 election, Caughey and her fellow Action Hobson colleague Richard Simpson have brokered compromise deals between the right and left on the council.They were successful in stopping the Eastern Motorway although the C&R Now group refuses to permanently remove the motorway designiation from the Eastern Transport Corridor