Candidates night By Lea Parkes
Last Thursday night saw about 150 locals attending the Division 1 candidate’s night at the Glass House Mountains Hall.
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The event was organised by the Glasshouse Mountains Advancement Network (GMAN) and was chaired by Ann Ross, Steve Attrill, Kym Edwards, Rhys Renolds, Debbie Blumel, Steven Lang of Maleny. Bob McLean, Rick Baberowski and Brett Winkler Steven who is an active conservationist, It was a great opportunity to put names to faces, and president of Maleny District Green Hills, a and to hear and see how our potential Councillors group dedicated to the protection and restoration can perform under the spotlight and what visions of natural areas in the local landscape, did they have for our area. a great job of keeping the evening on track The most significant outcome from the night and giving each of the candidates an equal for me was that a number of candidates (Bob opportunity of expressing their views. McLean, Reece Reynolds and Steve Attrill) declared that they are active members of a The evening was a combination of questions that political party (LNP). were presubmitted before the evening covering a I feel there is no room for party politics in local broad cross section of council topics as well as a government, and even if a candidate can – with number of questions that came from the floor. hand on heart – say that their political affiliations While the focus for the evening was on those won’t play any part in how they conduct running as Councillors for Division 1, three of the themselves if elected, it is very hard to believe Mayoral candidates attended so that they could that they won’t form alliances with other likehear what was important to the residents of the minded Divisional Councillors or play favourites division. to the recently elected State Government. This concern was then realised with two of these At the end of the forum, Mayoral candidates Cr candidates (Bob McLean and Reece Reynolds) Debbie Blumel, Kym Edwards and Brett Winkler declaring that they have stitched up a preference were each given a couple of minutes to introduce deal between themselves, forming the ‘dynamic themselves to the audience. duo’. For those of you who still haven’t decided how Surprisingly, the third pillar of conservatism – you will be voting for as Mayor there is a profile Steve Attrill – has been left of out the gang. One on each of the Mayoral candidates on pages wonders what he’s done to deserve that? 20 and 21 and in next week’s edition there will There was a piece in the Courier Mail I read be a final wrap up for each of the Division 1 from the State election, where the commentator candidates. explained that in a contest where there was a large candidate field, the tactic of ‘stooge’ As regular readers know it is not my approach candidates can sometimes be used. to offer my opinion on who will make the best This is where one candidate nominates for the candidate for the job, but we did receive a specific purpose of diluting the vote and directing couple of letters that raised questions about the preferences through to another candidate, but evening,that I thought made some interesting without them really wanting to win the seat. points and have printed one below. I’m hoping that such dirty tactics aren’t being played out in Division 1. But if they are … will I attended the Council candidate’s forum meeting the real stooge please stand up. at the Glasshouse Hall – well done to GMAN for B. Green, organising something for local voters. Glenview
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