Council is kidding itself

Moves by Gosford Council to block email and phone calls from "repeat complainers" is an attempt to avoid having to answer insistent questions about public issues.

These questions themselves arise because of a lack of transparency.

Community members come to me because their elected representatives are not worth their salt.

While Council continues to take rates, I will expect it to do what we pay for.

I expect councillors and staff to act in the best interests of the community.

Independent deputy mayor Cr Craig Doyle told me the pipes in Piles Creek death trap could not rust because they were made from a special plastic.

He insisted on that silly position even after I went inside the pipes and photographed the deadly results of almost 15 years of Gosford council's total neglect.

Liberal mayor Chris Holstein has accused me of making several hundred complaints, which he conveniently claims were not valid.

The mayor's defamatory attacks on me on ABC radio show that moves to silence me are based in personal animosity rather than community benefit.

The public good in all this has been ignored, and politicians and management have been in damage control for several years.

Gosford Council is kidding itself if it thinks it can continue to do as it pleases and no one will object.

Edward James, Umina