Preferences cast for personal victory?

As a long-time Peninsula resident, I am appalled at the suggestion by many people I speak to on the streets that Debra Wales is going to direct her preferences at the election to Labor's Marie Andrews.

We enjoy a wonderful lifestyle in Gosford and the Peninsula, but this has been eroded because of Labor's lack of action on the water problems and by cutting police officers from our area.

Debra Wales has claimed the Peninsula needs help for so long, but now she's going to do a deal with the ALP, just so she can score a cheap personal victory at the expense of 40,000-odd voters in the Gosford electorate.

Ms Wales claims she is going to represent the Central Coast as a true independent, and represent the best interests of all residents.

If this is so, how can she claim to be impartial when her husband is president of the Peninsula Chamber of Commerce, a position which requires the interests of businesses to be put first?

I know I'll be voting for Chris Holstein.

Jenny Rooke Booker Bay