It cost the NSW National Party $77,889.71 and donors $2,000 to get Steve Cansdell re-elected as the Member for Clarence on the Far North Coast in March last year.It also cost state taxpayers one general election ballot and one by-election ballot in the Clarence Electorate in 2011, because he suddenly resigned.
Based on the NSW Electoral Commission’s cost projection for the 2011 state election, the total for two Clarence ballots would be in the vicinity of $903,000.
Based on the NSW Electoral Commission’s cost projection for the 2011 state election, the total for two Clarence ballots would be in the vicinity of $903,000.
Add to that parliamentary salary paid between March and September 2011 which comes in at around $68,000, and it’s likely Steve the Speeder cost all and sundry at least $1million.
One million is a lot of moolah to spend because a less than honest politician had to admit to an offence committed in 2005 and resign when outed in September 2011.
Pic from The Northern Star in March 2011
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