Labor's stooge Councillor's evidence in question as rate hike decision examined

Labor Stooge Councillor MaryAnn Lindsay forgot just about everything that happened in the last 12 months when she was cross-examined in the Magistrate Court over allegations that she was a stooge candidate. However, she didn't forget everything. In an attempt to save her hide and prove she does not always vote with the Labor Party, she used the only example she could to show she didn't always vote with the other Labor Councillors; an alleged disagreement in a private meeting over the Hobsons Bay rate hike.

Stooge Councillor Lindsay claimed the Labor Councillors Caruana, Baarini and Marsich were against the rate hike, while she and the Independent councillors supported it. Apart from the official vote showing that all councillors supported the 8.9% rate increase, have a look at the following press articles from the time. Does it look like any of the Labor Councillors were against the increase? Of course not!

Labor's Cr. Caruana even went out trying to sell the increase to residents, and the disgraced former Labor Councillor Brad Matheson wrote letters supporting his former colleagues in the local press. It is highly unlikely that things were as Cr. Lindsay portrayed them but we will never know for sure. Like all other decisions in council, this one was made behind closed doors.

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