Dunedin goings on
From afar
I’m in Melbourne at the moment and will be here for a few weeks more. But I do like to keep up with what is going on in Dunedin.
As some of you know I’ve run for Dunedin Council twice so I know all the Councillors quite well. The only two that I like on a personal basis are Jules Radich, the current Mayor, and Lee Vandervis. I don’t know him as well but Kevin Gilbert is quite reasonable as well. The others are either useless or scumbags or occasionally both. That doesn’t mean that my politics align with Jules or Lee (or Kevin’s). But they most certainly don’t align with any other Councilor’s either.
Both Carmen and Sophie are most definitely scumbags. Both support male rights to female changing rooms, sports fields, prisons etc etc etc.
Yet they appeal to the better character of women here?
LOL.
Sophie is as woke as they come but Carmen does token service to it as well.
Carmen has no more experience on Council than Jules does. So WTF does this mean Carmen?
Also Sophie Barker and fellow councilor, Jim O'Malley, are a couple. The local news media never reports on this fact. They both also own a local pharmaceutical company together, this being Jim’s (mostly American) career before he came to Dunedin (was he sent here?).
Talking about transgender well I probably should have taken more notice of the posters on their window during the last election as I was insulted in this cafe by this creep (from the Kitchen) on the basis of that topic (I can no longer remember the actual words but they were completely unnecessary).
But only after I’d eaten and paid for my lunch. The young woman actually taking my payment was very pleasant to me though, I think that she might have approved of my support for women maintaining spaces for themselves only. No men.
Note some of the comments on tripadvisor.
This man is very poorly suited to hospitality.
I suspect that he got government funding for his pro-transgender stance. And now that financial support is no longer there.
IRD calls for $2b of Covid business loans to be paid back
Oops.
14th December.
There has been an update on the Cafe story.
"Council paid cafe $700,000 to close"
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/council-pays-cafe-end-lease
I suspect that they also paid them (and the bar around the corner) to run support for the pro-transgender side (that's Sophie especially but also Carmen and the former Mayor ) in the last local elections. (along with Mandy not mentioned above)
Finally there’s this story not Dunedin so much but not irrelevant to Dunedin either.
Te Whatu Ora (te far too aura, i.e far too healthy) otherwise and previously and probably in the future, now that the woke Labour scum are gone, known as the Department of Health couldn’t pay its own professionals? The ones that it gave an exemption to maybe? With all that money thrown around from 2020 to early 2023. With Blackrock in attendance?
How fucking pathetic.
Happy Xmas! (and Hannukah too).
There has been an update on the Cafe story.
"Council paid cafe $700,000 to close"
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/council-pays-cafe-end-lease
I suspect that they also paid them (and the bar around the corner) to run support for the pro-transgender side (that's Sophie especially but also Carmen and the former Mayor ) in the last local elections. (along with Mandy not mentioned above)
There are always problems when groups of people are formed.
The council is a group, clubs are groups, meetings between as little as four or five people
can quickly fall into ‘group mode’.
Cliques are formed, some want to control, some think they are superior, some think they know everything, some love the sound of their own voice and have an uninformed opinion on everything. Some have a sense of entitlement and dominate because they know more.
Even in our local park where I live, a group was formed between the dog owners and those who thought the beautiful park belonged to them and should be dog-free. Petitions were formed.
Anyone who took their dog off-leash was reported with an accompanied photo as proof.
The dog owner group organised a petition to go to council The non-dog owners did their own.
Almost a war!
Divisions develop in groups - ‘which side are you on, who do you support?’
Even in the surf, if living in a tourist town, it is the local group, against the tourists.
Gangs are groups. Their power is in the like-minded congregation. Often their issues
are more with each other and they end up killing each other.