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Mary asks a great question – when will it stop. It will stop when we get some decent councillors, some decent planners and a new head honcho whose top priority is looking after people and not his power base and terrific salary.
Honourable Richard Wynne ( Dick Wynne-Fall Gain) our planning minister was on 774 yesterday, he started his spiel as an apologist for the developers, unfortunately he is just another minister for developers. All his rhetoric was jobs, jobs, and jobs. Anyone wanting change from Labor, FORGRT IT, they are in the very large pockets of the wealthy elite.
Very little about the arrogance of the MRC [VATC] surprises me. The article doesn’t make clear whether the MRC Committee did actually form the opinion that he was “not a desirable person to be admitted”, but a menacing phonecall could be considered to mean he had been “warned off”. It’s also not clear the Club has an absolute right to ban people. It is supposed to be the decision of the Committee on a race day, and supposed to be based on some very nebulous criteria [eg not a desirable person to be admitted, whatever that means]. Despite this, CRRT has decided that if a person is refused admission, however inappropriately, then they must POQ or risk a Five or Ten Pound fine. [Yup, CRRT is firmly rooted in the 1950s.]
Meeting 1 is to rubber stamp the Annual Report and Meeting 2 will be closed to the public. Lipshutz moved a motion under Urgent Business at last week’s meeting re ‘security’ of council property. Be assured, there is more to this latter meeting than meets the eye.
Thanks GE Debates. They shouldn’t be able to close it to the public if it is about security of our property. The greens can’t let him get away with less transparency. What can we do to find out more?
If there is something dodgy going on Lobo will say it. He might be a bit strange sometimes but he is the only one who is not scared to speak out against the gang.
Yeah sure, he speaks out but then he turns around and votes with them. That he then tells people that only he has the tenacity and integrity to represent them.
Ask him how he voted on implementing the zones – and what he’s done since? The answer is he voted for them and has followed it up with much public handwringing and no action.
October 20, 2015 at 7:55 AM
Mary asks a great question – when will it stop. It will stop when we get some decent councillors, some decent planners and a new head honcho whose top priority is looking after people and not his power base and terrific salary.
October 20, 2015 at 8:44 AM
Honourable Richard Wynne ( Dick Wynne-Fall Gain) our planning minister was on 774 yesterday, he started his spiel as an apologist for the developers, unfortunately he is just another minister for developers. All his rhetoric was jobs, jobs, and jobs. Anyone wanting change from Labor, FORGRT IT, they are in the very large pockets of the wealthy elite.
October 20, 2015 at 10:25 AM
Off topic, but no-one should be surprised at the arrogance of the MRC
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/horseracing/ban-on-age-racing-writer-lifted-20151017-gkbn0o.html
October 20, 2015 at 11:09 AM
Bartley seems to be very tough on the Cobalt. Would MRC be nervous ‘no Moody no training at Caulfield’?
October 20, 2015 at 6:33 PM
Very little about the arrogance of the MRC [VATC] surprises me. The article doesn’t make clear whether the MRC Committee did actually form the opinion that he was “not a desirable person to be admitted”, but a menacing phonecall could be considered to mean he had been “warned off”. It’s also not clear the Club has an absolute right to ban people. It is supposed to be the decision of the Committee on a race day, and supposed to be based on some very nebulous criteria [eg not a desirable person to be admitted, whatever that means]. Despite this, CRRT has decided that if a person is refused admission, however inappropriately, then they must POQ or risk a Five or Ten Pound fine. [Yup, CRRT is firmly rooted in the 1950s.]
October 20, 2015 at 1:24 PM
Why are there 2 special meetings tonight?
October 20, 2015 at 1:37 PM
Meeting 1 is to rubber stamp the Annual Report and Meeting 2 will be closed to the public. Lipshutz moved a motion under Urgent Business at last week’s meeting re ‘security’ of council property. Be assured, there is more to this latter meeting than meets the eye.
October 20, 2015 at 1:46 PM
Thanks GE Debates. They shouldn’t be able to close it to the public if it is about security of our property. The greens can’t let him get away with less transparency. What can we do to find out more?
October 20, 2015 at 3:20 PM
If there is something dodgy going on Lobo will say it. He might be a bit strange sometimes but he is the only one who is not scared to speak out against the gang.
October 20, 2015 at 7:38 PM
Yeah sure, he speaks out but then he turns around and votes with them. That he then tells people that only he has the tenacity and integrity to represent them.
Ask him how he voted on implementing the zones – and what he’s done since? The answer is he voted for them and has followed it up with much public handwringing and no action.
October 24, 2015 at 10:58 PM
“He might be a bit strange sometimes”, that the understatement of the year, the man’s far beyond strange, he’s screaming bloody mad