Joshua Love

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Joshua Nathanuel Love (7 February 1991 – 7 February 2025) was a New Zealand hospitality entrepreneur and political candidate. He founded and directed 88 Cups Limited, a small coffee-shop chain trading as Eightyeight Cups with several "hole-in-the-wall" outlets in central Auckland. Love pursued political office on two occasions. He announced his intention to contest the 2019 Auckland mayoral election but did not appear on the final list of candidates. In 2020 he was selected as the candidate of The Opportunities Party (TOP) for the Auckland Central electorate at the 2020 New Zealand general election, but resigned from the party on 1 July 2020 after an internal warning letter alleging misconduct was made public. He went on to contest the seat as an independent, placing ninth of eleven candidates with 73 candidate votes. Love was killed on 7 February 2025, his 34th birthday, after being struck by three vehicles on Auckland's Southwestern Motorway near Mount Roskill. None of the drivers stopped...

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