Ansell cans tonight’s Colourblind launch but plans ‘private’ meeting
"Having read the emails between Ansell and the Remuera Rotary Club on the link provided, it's clear the RRC have seriously twisted the truth in their media statement."
Featured commentControversial advertising man John Ansell has cancelled tonight’s planned launch of his Colourblind New Zealand campaign.
Instead, a "private" meeting will take place, at which Mr Ansell says he will form a group to help him with his quest to form a political party.
The move follows Remeura Rotary Club pulling the plug on tonight’s planned launch at the club.
Mr Ansell says he was offered an alternative venue, which would hold 60 people, but after the feedback his campaign has generated he now says a larger venue will be necessary for a public launch.
“I have decided to pull the plug,” he told NBR ONLINE. “I am just a one man band at the moment but tonight it will become a five-man band.”
Remeura Rotary Club president John Burrowes cancelled Mr Ansell’s launch on Friday, claiming Rotary was a non-political organisation.
He also said Mr Ansell misled them on the nature of his event, something Mr Ansell disputes.
“I have put the evidence on my blog that they suggested I invite lots of people. I have put a series of exhibits. Rotary Remeura need to apologise and refund my travel expenses. But it shows unfairness is colourblind,” he says.
http://johnansell.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/my-evidence-that-remuera-rotary-misrepresented-me/
“I hope they will do the decent thing. Rotary in Wellington are ethical and treat me with courtesy. If anything, it shows people how I lay out my evidence and I will do this on Treatygate,” he says.
“It’s a private meeting tonight to create an organisation. A number of people have put their hands up, so I will make the most of that.”
Mr Ansell says he will contact supporters to tell them not to turn up at Remeura tonight, but instead there will be a "proper" launch in Tauranga and Auckland in the coming weeks.
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Having read the emails between Ansell and the Remuera Rotary Club on the link provided, it's clear the RRC have seriously twisted the truth in their media statement.
The sly yellow-bellies are a disgrace to the Rotary Organisation.
This is sad.
Rotary has a fine heritage of the very best of people of good intent.
Some members in Remuera club need to make a swift apology both within and without, use 4x ways to bring clarity and a champion of industry type solution. The mood of politics in this country at present is such that John Ansell cannot be just given the flick.
I have said for some time now that successive governments have been buiding,block by block an apatheid nation. Maori on one side and all other races (called non Maori or Parkeha) on the other.
It was only a matter of time before someone like John, created a political party based on race to oppose the other race based parties. The creation of this new party is inevitable and if the groundswell of support indicted in th e"orewa speech" is still there, this party will take off in leaps and bounds. I suspect a lot of politions will be nervous of the true feelings of hard working New Zealanders be revealed at long last.
Right on.
John, I'll be there - at the Tauranga launch - and look forward to volunteering all support possible. Like so many, I have long-lamented the lack of an effective voice or organisation to counter the runaway Maori influence slowly suffocating the country. Individually, penning an occasional 200 word 'letter to the editor' or merely sighing out loud when reading about the latest claim will take us nowhere.
No doubt, there will be shrieks of "how dare you" and accusations that you are trespassing in Treatyland, So be it. Every dog has its day - theirs was yesterday.
Peter Bullick
Good for you Rotary. I'll drop some pennies in the jar next time you are asking.
Has anyone compared Johns opinion on NZs history with any of our renound historians. Are they all wrong, biased or does John just know better.
He obviously is persieved to have a superior knowledge on this countries history for ignorant supporters to fund his campaign.
What a waste of time, money and votes. At least it keeps the topic on the table though. The more discussion the more truth and the more balanced opinion.
Shame on Rotary - telling lies and being found out - ih the shame of it all!
I don't agree with John Ansell's political ideas but the email exchange from the Rotarians was the worst kind of backstabbing face-saving in action, probably libellous, not to mention idiotic - they seem barely literate.
Rotary should be utterly ashamed of themselves. John Ansell, whose views would be supported by far the majority of New Zealanders, including many now part-Maori, was entirely upfront about this was going to be about.
Rotary should not have let one apparently antagonistic individual be responsible for cancelling this whole important address. What about another Rotary club volunteering to attempt to restore its now tarnished image nationwide? A disgraceful business.
Ran, you obviously are well read in NZ history. You obviously are a 'follower' and accept everything at face-value. I would suggest you use your nouse and study a bit of unadulterated history, not the forever changing-to-suit versions of history as 'rolled out' these days. You will find when money / greed is involved facts / history tend to become less black & white. Just read up on the history of treaty settlements and find the number of multi-settlements (in some cases 5 full & final) that have occured since the beginning of the 1900s.
I am a fourth generation White NZr and actually require our government to be accountable for my welfare on an equal footing to Maori.....Just read the Treaty. You will find it sets out clearly equality for all subjects/ citizens...End of story.