Dick Quax regrets Facebook outburst

  • Breaking
  • 15/05/2015

Controversial Auckland Councillor Dick Quax says he regrets a social media outburst where he suggested to a member of the public it may have been better if they were never born.

Quax says he was "too quick off the mark" in responding to a post from a Facebook user who called him a nutter, and later accused him of having a mental breakdown.

The comments were made after Quax posted a link to Facebook in support of the charter school system, to which Josh Phoenix replied saying ‘religious nutcases brainwashing children is not education’.

Quax then fired back with the comment: "If my generation - sounds like the title of a song - made one mistake it's providing more welfare so that lazy and intolerant people like Josh Phoenix can their spew their hate of anyone's views that differ from their own on social media. It may have better had your mother remained a virgin".

It's not the first time Quax has landed himself in hot water over comments posted online.

In a tweet in January he appeared to suggest the Auckland suburb of Glen Innes was crime ridden, saying the "Police helicopter 'Eagle' had been declared the suburb's official bird.

Quax says abusive comments are part of being in the public spotlight.

"I've had anonymous letters in the mail, people on Facebook have a crack at you and I've had stuff thrown on my driveway"

Quax says he does not know Josh Phoenix and has defriended him on Facebook.

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