Projects ran over budget

I just had to write after reading Cr Holstein's latest (political bashing) "Peninsula Perspective" column and his comments on NSW Premier Morris Iemma's spending.

I just shake my head at the hypocrisy of the man when he accuses the State Premier and Treasurer of wasting taxpayers' money.

What's Cr Holstein's excuse for 16 years of wasting ratepayers' money on the black hole at Niagara Park shopping centre, the overblown budgets on the Central Coast stadium and the Peninsula Leisure Centre, just to name a few.

These council projects ran millions of dollars over budget, with running "losses" into the millions, and we're paying for it.

Cr Holstein is right on one thing!

We don't need political spin while the roads and drainage on the Peninsula are more like a Third World country.

Nor do we need political spin while he sat on the Joint Water Supply Authority and did nothing about the water crisis.

Cr Holstein is way out of his league.

What we need to represent us in State Government are well educated and experienced representatives, not spin doctors who run mystic shops.

Jack Galway Woy Woy