Tuesday, 12 August 2008

So you think you can run a council.........

There are nine elected shire councillor positions on Clarence Valley Council.
The line up of candidates for the Clarence Valley local government election next month now stands at eleven according to the NSW Electoral Commission last night.

CHALLACOMBE Jeremy
COMBEN Patrick (Independent)
HOWE Craig (Independent)
HUGHES Sue (Independent)
KRISTOFFERSEN Kurt (Independent)
PEARCE Dennis (Independent)
PHILBROOK Don (Independent)
SIMMONS Jim (Independent) - current councillor
TILEY Ian (Independent) - current mayor
TOMS Karen (Independent)
WILLIAMSON Richie (Independent) - current councillor

Nominations close at noon on Wednesday 13 August for the 13 September 2008 election, but the unproven, very eager Kurt Kristoffersen has been first cab off the rank with a campaign leaflet which turned up in local letter boxes this week.

Small problem for Mr. Kristoffersen though - his leaflet appears to breach the legislated requirements for formal authorisation of election material.
Even if he squeaks through on just a post box address (outside of the suburb where he lives), a mobile telephone number and a Hotmail email address for himself as candidate - there is absolutely no printer's name and physical address anywhere on the leaflet in question.


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Apparently a local tried to give him the hint about this problem, but he insisted that all was proper and correct.
Don't like his chances if someone complains to the NSW Electoral Commissioner.

Mr. Kristoffersen gets 8 marks deducted for failing to read the relevant legislation, 1 mark off for not proofreading his work to avoid an unnecessary misspelling, another mark off for promising to freeze rate revenues if elected to a cash strapped regional council and, 1 mark awarded to him for a photograph which demonstrates that he at least knows how to use hair gel.
Leaving this candidate with 1 out of 10.

UPDATE:
Further candidates listed this morning, bringing the field up to fourteen:
BLOOMER Liza(Independent)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Mr Kristoffersen is a hard working local well known for his efforts in improoving our shire.