Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 4, 2019 4:50:15 GMT 12
Hawkes Bay Today 4/4/19
MAORI REPRESENTATIVES
Councillor Jacoby Poulain says a public poll would not have supported the Hastings District Council proposal to appoint four Maori representatives to their four standing committees “because only 20 per cent of the population is Maori”. That may well have been the case, but at least a poll is democratic. And democracy is how councillor Poulain got elected.
Yes, Winston Churchill once said democracy was the worst form of government “except for all the others”. What does that say about “the others?” They are infinitely worse.
MARK TAYLOR Havelock North
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
MAORI REPRESENTATIVES
Councillor Jacoby Poulain says a public poll would not have supported the Hastings District Council proposal to appoint four Maori representatives to their four standing committees “because only 20 per cent of the population is Maori”. That may well have been the case, but at least a poll is democratic. And democracy is how councillor Poulain got elected.
Yes, Winston Churchill once said democracy was the worst form of government “except for all the others”. What does that say about “the others?” They are infinitely worse.
MARK TAYLOR Havelock North
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers