Well, the MidCoast Council Election is over, and I personally hope that somehow the 11 councillors that have been elected find some way to work TOGETHER to provide us with a stable and successful council in the future, however I have some doubts.
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Six former councillors from the two previous councils that were declared NOT Fit For The Future have been elected.
Three councillors were endorsed by major political parties (two Labor and one Liberal), in addition another councillor is chairman of the Nationals Lyne Federal Electorate. What place do major political parties have in Local Government?
I suppose we have one saving grace, an independent candidate, who claimed to have tens of thousands of Facebook supporters, only received a few hundred votes.... in some ways, it’s a pity that he was not elected as he claimed that he could, amongst other things, reduce the price of petrol in our area!! (Really from his position in Local Government? – I guess he could have changed the weather for us, if asked). I notice that he has now removed all reference of his attempt to run for council on his Facebook page.
Good luck to our new MidCoast Council, and now we can look forward to the next NSW State election to show our appreciation of how we were treated at the Council Boundary Review.
