Nats candidate in the Clarence byelection, Chris duh, don’t know Gulaptis, escaped his minders again and opened his mouth without finding out the facts. He capped this off with another untruth. What survey was that again, Chris?
“SIX years after the Iluka Rd speed limit between Woombah and Iluka was dropped from 100km/h to 80km/h, Nationals candidate for the Clarence by-election Chris Gulaptis wants the O'Farrell government to reverse the change.
In 2005, the then roads minister Eric Roozendahl signed off on the speed limit reduction which was partly imposed to reduce road kill of the endangered coastal emu population that live in nearby Bundjalung National Park.
Now, Mr Gulaptis said he has a 1500 signature petition signed by locals, calling for the speed limit to be raised to 100km/h.
He said the push to reinstate the 100 km/h speed limit was instigated by former member for Clarence, Steve Cansdell.
"When it happened it was a unilateral decision by the minister without any community consultation," he said.
He understood the speed limit was under review by the minister for roads.
"The road will handle the speed, there is no reason for the road not to be 100km/h."
Mr Gulaptis could not answer whether the petition was a recent one, or one launched six years ago in opposition to the speed limit reduction, as he said he hadn't seen it, despite claiming on radio yesterday that he had it. “
Pollie in a glass house lashes out
It's becoming clear that Peter Ellem will say anything to get a vote." cried a shrill Chris Gulaptis today.
Pollie in a glass house lashes out
It's becoming clear that Peter Ellem will say anything to get a vote." cried a shrill Chris Gulaptis today.
A little cat let this out of the bag...
The Brushgrove community has long favoured building a small "low level" flood levee to protect their homes and hopefully avoid the need for emergency evacuation.
Apparently every voter's friend Chris Gulaptis has been telling residents there that a levee in their area is not on any important To Do list - saying that a former Maclean Shire councillor (not of the Nationals persuasion) agrees with him.
I'm hearing that this former councillor and longtime Brushgrove resident is irate that Gulaptis is telling so blatant an untruth.
In fact the former Maclean Shire Floodplain Management Study and Plan refers to a flood levee at Brushgrove as a feasible floodplain management option for the village and that same former councillor is still raising the need for a levee with Clarence Valley Council's Floodplain Risk Management Advisory Committee. He made his latest plea for a levee in August 2011 when he told Clarence Valley Council that the Brushgrove community would help build the levee if it got approval.
Howzat!
Chris Gulaptis caught out again in another whopper by Peter Ellem's bowling this evening:
"But Mr Ellem called on Mr Gulaptis to provide the Budget details to back up his claim.
Is this $3.7 million part of the $11.73 million the former Labor Government delivered for Casino Public School?" Mr Ellem asked.
Labor had already provided $11.73 million over two and a half years for new buildings and a refurbishment, with the work to be completed by 2012
Interestingly, the 2011/12 Budget papers from the O'Farrell-Stoner Government claim the $3.7 million funding is for 'continued major building projects at Casino Public School'.
If it is indeed the same funding, Mr Gulaptis should apologise for misleading the people of the Clarence yet again over incorrect funding claims.
Casino Public School parents, teachers and students would have been forgiven for thinking their school had received a new $3.7 million grant given Mr Gulaptis' campaign material.
This appears to be the third time Chris Gulaptis has wrongly claimed credit for millions of dollars in funding the National Party did not deliver to the Clarence," Mr Ellem said.
If Mr Gulaptis is going to keep wrongly claiming credit for funding the O'Farrell-Stoner Government has nothing to do with, how will he fight for new funding and resources for our community?
Mr Gulaptis' first campaign move was to incorrectly claimed the Nationals delivered $9 million for Grafton Base Hospital when it was actually from the Commonwealth and former Labor Government."
And another lie bites the dust
The ever inventive Chris Gulaptis told the Clarence electorate tonight; "There is not, nor has there ever been such a scheme" to build a coal seam gas mine in our area.
Studiously ignoring the enormous Metgasco elephant at Casino (with the Liberal Party's Richard Shields as its external relations manager and Nationals Stuart George as its land administration officer) which falls within the Clarence electorate and the Casino to Ipswich coal seam gas pipeline the O'Farrell Government will be pushing to completion because the "NSW government has not announced any change of policy related to coal seam gas licences,..The legal rights of any exploration holders across NSW remain unchanged."
Update:
Another deliberate misstatement rears its head
"Country Labor candidate Peter Ellem said yesterday the funding was actually provided by the former Labor Government. This may have been a Labor promise, Mr Gulaptis said, but the Coalition Government delivered it."
So tired of all this fudging and fibbing that I'll just link to a North Coast Voices post which shows the money was actually to be paid out under a contract between the former NSW Labor Government and the builder doing major capital works at Casino Public School as I write.
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