Disclosure shows transparency

I'm really quite disgusted at the personal attacks on Debra Wales by Mike Conroy and Vic Jefferies in the edition of Peninsula News on Monday, February 7, in relation to the Tesrol development.

The so-called "uncovering" of campaign donations to Debra Wales' State Election Campaign back in 2007 carries the innuendo that something untoward had happened.

I went to the Electoral Commission website and found the information was easily accessible and found that Debra Wales fully disclosed all of her campaign contributions as required by law.

So rather than a "cover up", as these two infer, Debra Wales has actually been fully transparent in her dealings.

However, it was very interesting to note that, on the other hand, Cr Chris Holstein in the same election received nearly $90,000 in campaign contributions and Chris Hartcher an obscene $210,000 in campaign contributions, but neither of these two gentlemen have declared the source of their contributions.

I would be more concerned where Cr Holstein and the Liberal member for Terrigal got their money from.

Developer contributions perhaps?

Letter, 10 Feb 2011 Jack Galway, Woy Woy