More Vitriol in the ACT LA - Is Horse Trading Corrupt?

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An opposition with NO idea….

Our local goverment is a joke. A party in power who take no responsibility for anything and don’t do anything, an opposition with idea and less intelligence, and a bunch of hangers on who are really sure what they are supposed to do.

Ineptness all around I’m afraid.

Come on Bonfire, you didn’t like Susan McCarthy??????????

by law our involvement in the electoral process is limited to attending a poll booth on election day.

most peopel have no idea who they are voting for, eespecially now that the media favour the presidential style of campaign/media coverage.

the act elections are a mediocrity bonanza.

liberals with no focus.

greens with no idea.

labor with more fake members than real.

democrats damned by federal events.

at the ginninderra ‘meet the candidates’ gig i attended, i was underimpressed by 90 percent of them. I felt mary porter was dim but pleasant, and dundas was excellent but with no chance of reelection.

but as i keep saying – the act doesnt need an assembly. it needs a local council.

How is making a deal to NOT get a labor majority on the commitee compromising accountability? If they hadn’t made this deal it would have been three ALP and two libs, that’s a better outcome for democracy how?

If you don’t actively encourage others to vote against Labor, then yes, you did re-elect the Stanhope Labor government. Standing for election for anyone other than Labor/Liberal is one very visible way of doing that (although it appears the wrong Green got elected).

Oh, and for the record, I letterboxed LOTS of suburbs. Shame you didn’t see me….

So unless you stand for election you have “elected the government”???? DFTS.

Anyway, I voted Labor. And I’m not bitching about them, because I like our Government. But you can’t assume that someone who complains about them voted for them. And your other theory????? Less said the better.

Didn’t see LurkerGal on the ballot paper, did I?
Didn’t see LurkerGal out letterboxing any suburbs, did I?
Who did your vote end up electing LG???

Did it occur to you that the people bitching DIDN’T vote for that Government?