This was scheduled for tomorrow. We gather that this call over has resulted from a request by the council, possibly because they are all going to be in another part of Wellington considering Dougherty’s replacement on Friday.
Yet another delay in disposing of this ridiculous complaint is frustrating for David Scott, but the way it is.
David Scott was elected as a representative, yet he has been effectively prevented from undertaking his responsibilities by numerous strictures of a type that have no justification at any level. It seems that His Worship has for years, week-in-week-out, written of ‘democracy’ until it has become a cliche from his pen. Is this ‘democracy’ really nothing other than hypocrisy?
What kind of ‘democracy’ is it that jacks-up matters to silence a critic and prevent him from fully performing the duties he was elected to perform?
I hope that there will be sufficient numbers of the public to ask such questions not only of His Worship, but of other Councillors who have most shamefully betrayed past friendships for the sake of a proverbial thirty pieces of silver, in addition to questioning the actions of a particularly slimy Councillor who seems to be on call to act as a supposed ‘witness’ to any given situation, regardless of where he was, if it serves his own benefit.
The question remains as to who leaked this matter to the press, at a time when only His Worship, the complainant, Mr Dougherty, and Dr Scott, knew of it? This guttersnipe action is a serious example of miscreance from within council, and surely requires a full enquiry, but nobody gives a tuppenny damn.
His Worship had a mandate to clean house, yet among his first actions were to give top positions to those who had shown themselves to be without honour and honesty in the previous council, on the basis (as he said it) that he ‘did not want to be stabbed in the back’. Good luck with that.
It’s something that could and should have been dealt with internally by the chief executive talking to each party separately and then together. That it wasn’t makes obvious that there was an ulterior motive involved and collusion between the three you mention, other than David Scott.