Over the next 3 weeks the residents of the Whitsunday Regional Council area have a decision to make. A decision which will determine the future for the region. Do we want to go back to what we have seen over the last years or do we want to move forward and create a future for our families and their children to come?
Who do you want to be mayor?
According to some news reports: “we need someone experienced behind the wheel”… “now is not the time for a learner driver”. It seems council is a vehicle, a vehicle to transport you to higher office.
Experienced? Experienced in what?
Twenty plus years of increasing the rates? To make them the highest in Queensland.
Twenty plus years of driving the ratepayer funded car and getting paid to do so?
Twenty plus years of using the car to elevate himself to another job? A failed attempt to get out of this job when trying for federal parliament standing for the Labor party, two failed attempts to try for state parliament standing for the Labor party.
Twenty years of experience in failure
Years of missing Council’s budgeted results by $30 million dollars each year. Is this the experience we are supposed to need?
Years of “knowing better” what the community they represent wants and needs.
Approving a high-rise development on the foreshore contrary not only the planning scheme but clearly against the community wishes.
“Development has only one way to go and that’s up” according to some, just like the rates in the future.
Experience in secrecy and behind closed doors deals.
Experience in inaction.
Little wonder a career politician - and a failed one at that - is rattled by the challenge of new blood. And can only resort to trite and tired old scare tactics about learner drivers. Seems the only one scared is Mike.
You can vote Batty 1 with full confidence in the future-you won’t be putting a learner driver to any test; my only P plates stand for Progress and Probity.
Time to bring 40 years of global commercial experience to the wheel.
Time to bring 40 years of managing budgets for hundreds of millions of dollars to the wheel.
Time to bring 40 years of leading teams of thousands of people.
Time to bring in 40 years of getting things done and making things happen.
Phil batty may be just a “member of the public” but one who has made several more significant contributions to the prosperity of this region than any current councillor in recent years.
Vote Phil Batty for Mayor in this election and let’s not go back to the past.
