Time
for Change – Northern Advocate – 16th June 2012.
Intolerable.
Re:
Inside Out – Nickie Muir’s articles of June 6 and 13,
‘Hands up, silent majority’ and ‘Make lemonade out of lemons’.
I
totally applaud anyone who has the courage to stand up and be counted, by writing
informative and factual articles.
After
having many discussions with industry operators in Whangarei, who have been subjected to intimidation and
unfair practices by some in ‘our council’, I admire one that has come out
and told us all of this despicable and
intolerable behaviour.
Since
2005, attending most district council meetings in Whangarei, I am not surprised
at all by this type of ‘bully boy tactics’, that
have by her accounts been imposed on this writer who has integrity.
Having
campaigned previously for council, some of my campaign philosophies have been
to change the ‘culture’ in our district council.
Sadly, bad, unacceptable, bullying behaviour can flow from the top down and this has been portrayed by this most
recent article. I have to ask, should there be a resignation from the CEO,
for this type of intolerable behaviour? I certainly would not tolerate stand over
tactics or bullying behaviour and nor should our ratepayers. Remember these
people are employed by us. It’s time for a change, get rid of the bad apple before the whole box of apples becomes
worthless. By the way, where are the
Gestapo headquarters in Whangarei?
Warren
Slater
Maunu
(items abridged by
Northern Advocate in italics, for their
published copy)