Wanted: Councillors who see through the pork barrelling’

Dear Editor,

Best wishes to all the people who have nominated to be elected to council – let’s hope ratepayers do a good job and elect councillors smart enough to see through the pork barrelling that the state government has come up with, aimed at holding on to the state seat of Dubbo as well as moving to regain the state seat of Orange.

Wasn’t there a former National Party politician who was going to solve all of Dubbo’s problems by getting elected to council some time ago – and we all know how that turned out – and are there people who have nominated to be on council that think the state Premier is “Santa Claus” and will continue to hand out bags of lollies for ever more, along with her elves, one of whom holds the distinguished title of “The Commissioner of the NSW Police Force”?

Why is it that the media in the area has completely overlooked the fact that nearly all the Wellington council area is not in the state seat of Dubbo? How is it that the local “guru” who resides on Mugga Hill and, according to his disciples who number all the media, hasn’t informed his parishioners that people from Wellington reside in the state seat of Orange?

Dubbo managed to set up a regional saleyards half a century before other areas so why couldn’t the same be done with solving the city’s traffic problem.

It’s only a matter of keeping the fertiliser salesman away as was done in setting up the regional saleyards successfully. Ron Gillis, Neilrex

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