Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 1, 2019 4:39:38 GMT 12
Hawkes Bay Today 1/4/19
COUNCIL'S SLIPPERY SLOPE
It is shocking that the Hastings District Council feels able to abandon democracy and appoint totally unelected Maori to council committees.
With 25 per cent of Hastings population Maori, there is surely no reason why Maori cannot be elected to the HDC. Four of the 14 elected members have Maori heritage.
It is an insult to the ratepayers of Hastings that the council has made this decision to appoint those who have not stood before the ratepayers to seek their endorsement. This is a very slippery slope for democracy.
The issue will not go away, and will no doubt be remembered when the local body elections take place later in the year.
At the very time the Prime Minister is stressing that all New Zealanders should have equal rights, and we should be one people, the Hastings District Council votes to give voting rights to some citizens on purely racial grounds.
Time for a change I think because this has been a disgraceful example of what not to do in local government
MARGARET MURRAY-BENGE, Tauranga
NOT SO PRIVILEGED
As an 88-year-old pensioner of the group frequently vilified by some ethnic and pseudo-liberal groups as: 'Male. Pale and Stale'. the only "White Privilege" that I experienced in a working life engaged in naval service, teaching an abundance of other jobs and raising five children, has been to be fully employed the whole time and so able to provide the taxes needed to support those less fortunate.
BRYAN JOHNSON, Omokoroa
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COUNCIL'S SLIPPERY SLOPE
It is shocking that the Hastings District Council feels able to abandon democracy and appoint totally unelected Maori to council committees.
With 25 per cent of Hastings population Maori, there is surely no reason why Maori cannot be elected to the HDC. Four of the 14 elected members have Maori heritage.
It is an insult to the ratepayers of Hastings that the council has made this decision to appoint those who have not stood before the ratepayers to seek their endorsement. This is a very slippery slope for democracy.
The issue will not go away, and will no doubt be remembered when the local body elections take place later in the year.
At the very time the Prime Minister is stressing that all New Zealanders should have equal rights, and we should be one people, the Hastings District Council votes to give voting rights to some citizens on purely racial grounds.
Time for a change I think because this has been a disgraceful example of what not to do in local government
MARGARET MURRAY-BENGE, Tauranga
NOT SO PRIVILEGED
As an 88-year-old pensioner of the group frequently vilified by some ethnic and pseudo-liberal groups as: 'Male. Pale and Stale'. the only "White Privilege" that I experienced in a working life engaged in naval service, teaching an abundance of other jobs and raising five children, has been to be fully employed the whole time and so able to provide the taxes needed to support those less fortunate.
BRYAN JOHNSON, Omokoroa
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