{"id":4002,"date":"2015-10-04T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2015-10-04T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T18:13:08","slug":"behaviour-unbecoming-of-a-city-councillor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4002","title":{"rendered":"Behaviour Unbecoming of a City Councillor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">September 16, 2015<\/span><\/strong> \u2014 <em>He wanted to be mayor in the City of Blacktown but for the second time in a row, Blacktown City Councillor <strong>Jess Diaz<\/strong> lost to Labor Party Councillor <strong>Stephen Bali. <!--more--><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Blacktown City Council is composed of 7 Liberal Party members while there are also 7 Labor Party councillors. It would have been a hung parliament were it not for <strong>Russ<\/strong> <strong>Dickens,<\/strong> an independent member<strong> <\/strong>who voted in favour of Stephen Bali last year, causing the loss of Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>But during last Wednesday&#8217;s election, <strong>Cr.<\/strong> <strong>Jaqui Donaldson<\/strong> who was originally a member of the Liberal Party resigned her party membership, became an independent and voted in favour of Bali.<\/p>\n<p>Her move angered the Filipino councillor who lost his temper and shouted at Donaldson, calling her &#8220;Judas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A report from a very reliable eyewitness stated that Diaz was asked to leave the Chamber because of his unruly behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor-elect then called for a recess of the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>See Cr. Diaz&#8217;s outburst in youtube:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-E9KNx8iZBA\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-E9KNx8iZBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Councillor Diaz was repeatedly asked by Mayor Stephen Bali to apologise to Cr. Donaldson but he repeatedly said: &#8220;I will not apologise.&#8221; He then left the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 16, 2015 \u2014 He wanted to be mayor in the City of Blacktown but for the second time in a row, Blacktown City Councillor Jess Diaz lost to Labor Party Councillor Stephen Bali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,33,49,66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}