Archive post: »Is a Venstre politician using your tax money to pursue private lawsuits?« · 2020-11-27

• Halldor Henriksen — Mentioned in the current archived text
• Peter Hansen — Mentioned in the current archived text

Source title: Bruger Venstrepolitiker dine skattekroner på at føre private retssager?

Text version dated 1 Nov 2021

Bruger Venstrepolitiker dine skattekroner på at føre private retssager? Lokalpolitikeren Peter Hansen (V) er blevet rigtig godt gammeldags tøsefornærmet. Vi har nemlig i tidligere indlæg på Facebook-siden ’Dybbøl Banke Skansegården’ brugt et flot portræt af ham i forbindelse med vores beskrivelse af nogle af hans bedrifter som forretningsmand.

I flere artikler har vi også peget på, hvor god han er til at kombinere sit politiske embede med personlige og forretningsmæssige ambitioner. Fotoet er hentet fra Sønderborg Kommunes pressefotos, men nu har modellen nedlagt forbud mod at bruge billedet. Kommunens pressefotos er ellers til fri afbenyttelse i forbindelse med omtale af Sønderborg Kommune.

Da Peter Hansen er politiker i samme kommune, havde vi svært ved at se, at det skulle give problemer. Sønderborg Kommune havde heller ikke følt grund til at gøre indsigelser. Men Peter var åbenbart blevet rigtig ked af den store opmærksomhed omkring sin person og ville stoppe vores brug af fotoet.

Normalt ville han blot bede vennerne på JydskeVestkysten om at skrive noget grimt om os. Men… det ville jo ikke ligefrem gøre den lidt latterlige sag mindre synlig i offentligheden. Hvad gør man så, hvis man ikke selv vil betale for at få løst et problem?

Skatteborgerne må betale Peter Hansen udviste endnu engang kreativitet og privatøkonomisk ansvarlighed. Han satte Sønderborg Kommunes forvaltning i gang med at gøre noget ved det – og i vanlig stil startede han ikke ved sekretæren i presseafdelingen, men bad ingen mindre end kommunaldirektøren om at gøre noget ved problemet. Det satte en større maskine i gang: Ud over kommunaldirektøren, aktiverede det også Sekretariatschefen for Byrådssekretariat og Jura, kommunens advokatfirma og formodentlig en hær af sekretærer – samt på den anden side af skansen ejerens advokat.

Den sidste i rækken må ejeren naturligvis aflønne af egne fuldt beskattede midler, men resten af de sikkert overordentligt kompetente og vellønnede mennesker får deres udkomme fra Sønderborg Kommune. Du har sikkert regnet resten ud. Regningen for at få fjernet et offentligt tilgængeligt foto fra den ovennævnte artikel havner naturligvis hos dig som skatteyder – og den bliver uforholdsmæssig stor.

Alligevel kommer den sikkert kun til at koste en brøkdel af det beløb, Peter Hansens korstog mod Skansegården har kostet Sønderborg Kommune. Og den sag er endnu ikke afsluttet. Om at kaste med sten – når man bor i glashus Lige nu er der lagt op til retssag og et eventuelt fogedforbud mod at bruge det famøse billede.

Vi har dog svært ved at se, at vi har overtrådt nogle regler ved at bruge kommunens pressefotos til omtale af en lokalpolitiker. Der står jo intet om, at billederne kun må bruges til positiv omtale. Den aktuelle sag gør det relevant at minde om, at Peter Hansen startede hetzen mod Skansegården og dens ejer – og at han faktisk kørte en mange måneder lang kampagne, før vi tog til genmæle.

Så Peter, husk på, at det er rigtig dumt at smide de første 20 sten, når du selv bor i glashus og er en smule nærtagende. Et ufuldstændigt portræt Til sidst vil vi lige dele det lille portræt, som lokalredaktør på JydskeVestkysten Halldor Henriksen (Mr. Fake News) har skrevet om den afgående lokalpolitiker og Jysk Fynske Mediers kommende bestyrelsesformand.

Vi mener ikke, at Halldor har lavet et helt dækkende portræt. Hvad synes du? https://www.tvsyd.dk/sonderborg/v-vi-vil-have-et-lokalt-kreditinstitut https://jv.dk/artikel/kommentar-farvel-til-klassens-fr%C3%A6kke-dreng (Opslaget har tidligere været bragt på vores Facebook side)

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Is a Venstre politician using your tax money to pursue private lawsuits? Local politician Peter Hansen (V) has become thoroughly and rather pettily offended. In previous posts on the Facebook page ‘Dybbøl Banke Skansegården’, we used a fine portrait of him when describing some of his achievements as a businessman.

In several articles, we have also pointed out how good he is at combining his political office with personal and business ambitions. The photograph came from Sønderborg Municipality’s press photographs, but the person pictured has now forbidden use of the image. The municipality’s press photographs are otherwise freely available for use in coverage of Sønderborg Municipality.

Since Peter Hansen is a politician in that same municipality, we found it difficult to see why this should cause problems. Sønderborg Municipality had not seen any reason to object either. But Peter had apparently become very upset by all the attention to his person and wanted to stop our use of the photograph.

Normally, he would simply ask his friends at JydskeVestkysten to write something nasty about us. But… that would hardly make this rather ridiculous case less visible to the public. So what do you do if you do not want to pay to have a problem solved yourself?

The taxpayers must pay. Peter Hansen once again displayed creativity and responsibility towards his personal finances. He set Sønderborg Municipality’s administration to work on doing something about it – and, in his usual style, he did not start with the secretary in the press department but asked none other than the municipal chief executive to do something about the problem.

That set a larger machine in motion: besides the municipal chief executive, it also activated the Head of the City Council Secretariat and Legal Affairs, the municipality’s law firm and presumably an army of secretaries – and, on the other side of the redoubt, the owner’s lawyer. The owner naturally has to pay the last person in that line from his own fully taxed funds. The rest of these undoubtedly highly competent and well-paid people receive their income from Sønderborg Municipality.

You have probably worked out the rest. The bill for removing a publicly available photograph from the above-mentioned article naturally falls to you as a taxpayer, and it will be disproportionately large. Nevertheless, it will probably cost only a fraction of what Peter Hansen’s crusade against Skansegården has cost Sønderborg Municipality.

And that case is not yet over. About throwing stones when you live in a glass house. At present, legal proceedings and a possible injunction against using the notorious image are on the cards.

We find it difficult, however, to see that we have broken any rules by using the municipality’s press photographs to cover a local politician. Nothing says that the pictures may only be used for favourable coverage. Naturally, we will not use the image going forward, but we have ensured that we have secured the rights to an extensive archive of photographs featuring the same subject.

The current case makes it relevant to recall that Peter Hansen started the campaign against Skansegården and its owner, and that he actually conducted it for many months before we responded. So Peter, remember that throwing the first 20 stones is really foolish when you live in a glass house yourself and are a little touchy. An incomplete portrait.

Finally, we would like to share the short portrait written by JydskeVestkysten’s local editor, Halldor Henriksen (Mr. Fake News), about the departing local politician and incoming chairman of Jysk Fynske Medier. We do not think Halldor has produced an entirely comprehensive portrait.

What do you think?

This is an automatic reading translation. The source’s allegations and assessments have not been independently confirmed through translation. Check wording, qualifications and meaning against the preserved Danish original. Some retained numbers may use Danish separators: a dot for thousands and a comma for decimals. Check amounts against the Danish original.

Is a Venstre politician using your tax money to pursue private lawsuits?

Local politician Peter Hansen (V) has become thoroughly and rather pettily offended. In previous posts on the Facebook page ‘Dybbøl Banke Skansegården’, we used a fine portrait of him when describing some of his achievements as a businessman. In several articles, we have also pointed out how good he is at combining his political office with personal and business ambitions.

The photograph came from Sønderborg Municipality’s press photographs, but the person pictured has now forbidden use of the image. The municipality’s press photographs are otherwise freely available for use in coverage of Sønderborg Municipality. Since Peter Hansen is a politician in that same municipality, we found it difficult to see why this should cause problems.

Sønderborg Municipality had not seen any reason to object either. But Peter had apparently become very upset by all the attention to his person and wanted to stop our use of the photograph. Normally, he would simply ask his friends at JydskeVestkysten to write something nasty about us.

But… that would hardly make this rather ridiculous case less visible to the public. So what do you do if you do not want to pay to have a problem solved yourself?

The taxpayers must pay
Peter Hansen once again displayed creativity and responsibility towards his personal finances. He set Sønderborg Municipality’s administration to work on doing something about it – and, in his usual style, he did not start with the secretary in the press department but asked none other than the municipal chief executive to do something about the problem. That set a larger machine in motion: besides the municipal chief executive, it also activated the Head of the City Council Secretariat and Legal Affairs, the municipality’s law firm and presumably an army of secretaries – and, on the other side of the redoubt, the owner’s lawyer.

The owner naturally has to pay the last person in that line from his own fully taxed funds. The rest of these undoubtedly highly competent and well-paid people receive their income from Sønderborg Municipality. You have probably worked out the rest.

The bill for removing a publicly available photograph from the above-mentioned article naturally falls to you as a taxpayer, and it will be disproportionately large. Nevertheless, it will probably cost only a fraction of what Peter Hansen’s crusade against Skansegården has cost Sønderborg Municipality. And that case is not yet over.

About throwing stones when you live in a glass house
At present, legal proceedings and a possible injunction against using the notorious image are on the cards. We find it difficult, however, to see that we have broken any rules by using the municipality’s press photographs to cover a
local politician. Nothing says that the pictures may only be used for favourable coverage.

The current case makes it relevant to recall that Peter Hansen started the campaign against Skansegården and its owner, and that he actually conducted it for many months before we responded. So Peter, remember that throwing the first 20 stones is really foolish when you live in a glass house yourself and are a little touchy.

An incomplete portrait
Finally, we would like to share the short portrait written by JydskeVestkysten’s local editor, Halldor Henriksen (Mr. Fake News), about the departing local politician and incoming chairman of Jysk Fynske Medier.

We do not think Halldor has produced an entirely comprehensive portrait. What do you think?

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