REMEMBER WHEN

GOLD COAST BULLETIN Wednesday, Sept 19, 2007

DEPUTY Mayor David Power ended a 16-year rollercoaster council career.

The Division 2 councillor, first elected to the nowdefunct Albert Shire Council as a fresh-faced 28-year-old in 1991, said his resignation would take effect at 5pm that day.

However, his battles with some fellow councillors were expected to go on.

He reaffirmed his intention to push ahead with a defamation action against Cr Peter Young and said he was considering legal action against two other unnamed councillors.

A new deputy mayor and representative for Cr Power’s northern division was to be announced before the end of the month.

The 43-year-old said he had fielded several lucrative job offers from the commercial sector but did not make his final decision until that week.

It was on a Father’s Day weekend spent riding dirt bikes with sons Reece, 15, and Travis, 12, at Black Duck near Gatton that Cr Power began thinking about life without the council.

“This decision has really come over the past couple of weeks, talking with my family and wanting to make the right decision for me.

“This is the end of David Power’s 15 seconds of fame. As of tomorrow afternoon at 5pm I will officially no longer be Deputy Mayor of this city.

“As much as we would all like to be here to see things through, the fact is that it doesn’t work like that.

“The bureaucracy will always remain, but politicians come and go.”