Hurunui Victimhood Councillor
April 17, 2019
By NZB3
The first thing mother of three Julia McLean did upon being elected to the Hurunui District Council was complain it didn’t pay enough. Not having done her homework, she was caught by surprise only after running for office, being elected, being sworn in. If her own domestic challenges (3 childrens’ needs!!) have been so poorly thought out how much foresight must she have put toward anything else concerning governing the people of her district and all its challenges?
Hurunui District councillor Julia McLean said juggling council responsibilities with caring for a 6-month-old, 4-year-old and 7-year-old put her “on the back foot from the start”.- Newly-elected Hurunui District councillor Julia McLean will take baby to meetings if childcare costs not subsidised; Stuff
You’d think the fringe benefits of free petrol, free phone calls, free internet would be appreciated. Quite the opposite! These forms of compensation are considered rationale for even more pay- a precedent for covering other expenses such as the care of the three children left at home.
Where’s the father? Is he also choosing to pursue a job and money to be absent from raising his children? At the same time his wife is? Can their income combined not cover some local kid to babysit? If not, is your duel-income life sustainable?
Where are family and friends? Hundreds of people voted for Julia to represent them. Will none of them pitch in now so that she can go and do what they elected her to do? Doesn’t she like or trust any of them?
From the headline and the photo it really looks like some kind of home invasion hit-and-run has befallen her. Like someone graffitied her fence and gratified her cat! Not at all. She’s simply looking miserable because The State wont look after her kids while she’s off being a Government Official. In 2019 she may be about to have her way…
More young people may put their hands up for spots on local councils this year after the Remuneration Authority announced a proposed childcare allowance policy for local government representatives.
The Remuneration Authority is receiving comments from elected members until May 31. If the proposed policy is accepted, it will come into effect on July 1.- Costs for childcare could be covered for local government representatives; Stuff
The premise is that having children and being young is some kind of disability. Or, to express it another way, that being an elder and not having child-care problems to solve is a ‘privileged’ that must be smashed by more money.
“I’ve been elected as an equal, but I’m not being treated as one”.
This is to treat oneself as disabled, one’s family as a liability. It’s not that others have been thrifty or organised or waited to the right time of life to become a politician. No, it’s some institutional impoverishment making Julia a less-than-equal and this can be corrected, we are told, by paying her in more resources.
“I am asking you, as a mother who entered politics, to relook at the RA Expenses Policy and bring it into line with modern times.”
This ‘modern times’ is no argument, just name-calling. “Do as I say or you’re not progressive, you’re not modern,” she is saying. Simply privileging her own point of view by giving it a made-up title: modern. Interesting too to have another instance here of the Victimhood advocate simultaneously being the victim. There’s a little bit about standing up for hypothetically ‘disadvantaged’ politicians and potential politicians but in the main Julia is self-serving toward her own need.
By running on the Victimhood Councillor platform in the coming 2019 local body elections Julia risks becoming type-cast. She lifts her profile but when our culture changes it will want to rid itself of Outrage Industrial Complex exponents and she’ll be dust.
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