These days it seems that you can’t go a week without having some Green MP go off the rails in one way or another. Case in point: Julie Anne Genter, Green MP and cycling advocate.
A Wellington florist who claims to have been intimidated by Julie Anne Genter in her shop says the situation was made worse by the Green MP filming her on her phone “like something out of Police Ten 7”.
[…] She says Genter came into her shop sometime last week and the pair got into a discussion about how “Genter had advocated to get rid of every single car park at the shopping precinct”. Newcombe says the discussion quickly escalated.
[…] “Then she pulled out her phone and then she put it in my face and she was filming and recording me and I was like, wow this is just really rude, and I said can you please leave.
“She was really slow to leave, she didn’t want to leave, she didn’t like that. And then she started screaming ‘you don’t care about my kids cycling’.”
This is nothing less than Genter revealing her true colours. Entitled, much? Notice how she says “my kids” and not “kids”. Notice how she showed no consideration for the florist and how getting rid of kerbside car parking has slashed the florist’s income. Don’t care about your kids cycling? At least your kids can afford bicycles…
[…] Newcombe estimates the exchange lasted between five to seven minutes.
“Lots of people said to me why did she come into your shop in the first place when it’s been well documented how I felt about car parks being removed, it was common knowledge, and she knew this as it was always on the cycle aware page. She would join in.”
She came in to start a fight. Simple.
[…] Newcombe said she didn’t see what happened between Genter and Doocey in Parliament until yesterday morning, but the minute she did she thought, “wow that’s exactly how she was to me. I felt like that National guy, I was a little bit stunned, I was taken a bit aback”.
Newcombe says she instantly recognised the behaviour, as did her friends and family who she’d told about the exchange in her shop.
[…] On the flower shop complaint, Green Party co-leader Chloe Swarbrick told the Herald the party’s leadership had not known about the incident before yesterday.
Another day, another drama from the Greens. Got to say, Chloe has a lot on her plate. Let’s see how she handles this and see if she’s got the goods to be a leader or whether she should have just stayed where she was.
