The inane decision supported by most Western Bay councillors to install race-based Maori wards predictably alienated the Western Bay community. The petition for a poll on the council's decision readily attained signatures needed.
Having regard to past local authority referendums on race-based issues, predictably around 80 per cent of the Kiwi public would vote against race-based Maori wards, and so it proved to be. Incidentally Manawatu, Palmerston North, Kaikoura and Whakatane councils also got their comeuppance – result 5-0 at a 75 per cent average.
Hallmarks were no consultation with the electorates, nor were citizens' views canvassed – a clear breach of the Local Government Act 2002.
The overwhelming vote shows that those Western Bay councillors and Mayor who enthusiastically embraced this race-based aberration should immediately resign. The countermand vote is tantamount to a vote of no confidence by Western Bay electors in these dogmatists and should mean eight councillor and mayoral by-elections – bring them on.
Alarmingly, not one elected member ever alerted the public to their Maori ward aspirations during 2016 elections, plus recent public-excluded meetings with hidden separatist agendas reeked of underhand scheming and stealth.
Worse still these poor losers have just passed a council resolution pledging support for LGNZ race-based legislation to ban future referendums.
R Paterson, Matapihi.
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TRAITOROUS LGNZ
Posted on 05-06-2018 17:48 | By crazyhorse
It is an appalling state of affairs when the body that speaks for the democratic organisations that represent us, is undermining democracy by not only wanting to remove the fundamental right of voters to binding polls, but by also advocating a tapestry of lies. “This self-arrogated Maori separatist advocacy by LGNZ is an outright contempt on local electors and a plot to purge direct democracy from local government. Moreover it betrays an ambush sprung on LGNZ's 78 local government members, who were not informed in advance of the open letter being sent to the government… In other words, LGNZ acted off its own bat out of a fit of pique over the five Local Electoral Act binding polls that it disagreed with, and off it went to wipe out direct local democracy in New Zealand in service of the cause of Maori supremacism.”
Another great letter R Paterson.
Posted on 05-06-2018 17:53 | By crazyhorse
Well Said," not one elected member ever alerted the public to their Maori ward aspirations during 2016 elections", time to drain the swamp, if they don't walk they will be booted out next time around, council is no place to push your separatist, racist agenda's.
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