Post by AusGeoff on Jul 19th, 2023 at 4:52am
From today's ABC News site 19 July:
A NSW councillor has posted a public apology on
Facebook after making an offensive(?) domestic
violence analogy during a council debate about a
koala reserve.
Cr. Wolgamot apologises for domestic violence remark during debate.
Coffs Harbour Councillor Scott Wolgamot made the
remark while speaking against a motion to increase
the City of Coffs Harbour's engagement with the
state government's proposed Great Koala National Park.
"This is one of those things you get asked like, 'Are
you still beating your wife?', where you can't say
yes and you can't say no", he said.
Wolgamot said he "used a very old conundrum in
relation to finding the correct answer — there was
no ill-intent in citing that... I deeply abhor domestic
violence, I do not condone it in anyway whatsoever".
Fellow councillor, Tegan Swan, said she did not hear
Cr. Wolgamot make the remark at the meeting,
(of course not, she didn't attend, even although it
was her duty as a councillor to do so), but was
subsequently made aware of it by her mother(!)
I had never heard that phrase before, and it did
alarm and shock me".
Despite never having heard that old, common
conundrum, and not understanding what it meant,
poor little "woke" Tegan found it necessary to arc
up, and attack an older, better educated, and more
worldly-wise male—in an attempt to increase her
status on the council and in the headlines it produced.
And of course her ignorance and rabid "wokeness",
of necessity, effectively forced Cr. Wolgamot on to
the back foot and making an unwarranted apology for
something he said understood by 99% of the population—
except apparently by our little Miss Woke.
Checking on this silly young woman, I found that
she'd actually made a run for Coffs Harbour mayor a
couple of years back, after—unbelievingly—being its
deputy mayor.
A NSW councillor has posted a public apology on
Facebook after making an offensive(?) domestic
violence analogy during a council debate about a
koala reserve.
Cr. Wolgamot apologises for domestic violence remark during debate.
Coffs Harbour Councillor Scott Wolgamot made the
remark while speaking against a motion to increase
the City of Coffs Harbour's engagement with the
state government's proposed Great Koala National Park.
"This is one of those things you get asked like, 'Are
you still beating your wife?', where you can't say
yes and you can't say no", he said.
Wolgamot said he "used a very old conundrum in
relation to finding the correct answer — there was
no ill-intent in citing that... I deeply abhor domestic
violence, I do not condone it in anyway whatsoever".
Fellow councillor, Tegan Swan, said she did not hear
Cr. Wolgamot make the remark at the meeting,
(of course not, she didn't attend, even although it
was her duty as a councillor to do so), but was
subsequently made aware of it by her mother(!)
I had never heard that phrase before, and it did
alarm and shock me".
Despite never having heard that old, common
conundrum, and not understanding what it meant,
poor little "woke" Tegan found it necessary to arc
up, and attack an older, better educated, and more
worldly-wise male—in an attempt to increase her
status on the council and in the headlines it produced.
And of course her ignorance and rabid "wokeness",
of necessity, effectively forced Cr. Wolgamot on to
the back foot and making an unwarranted apology for
something he said understood by 99% of the population—
except apparently by our little Miss Woke.
Checking on this silly young woman, I found that
she'd actually made a run for Coffs Harbour mayor a
couple of years back, after—unbelievingly—being its
deputy mayor.