A most satisfying experience!

I had a very satisfactory experience yesterday afternoon. One of our esteemed Nillumbik Councillors came door knocking to solicit votes for the next council elections. Well, did I give him an earful!!!
He started off telling me that Nillumbik was the most livable place, and that got me going! I got on to him about the vandalism around the Shire and couldn't believe my ears when he said "Where? It's not that bad". I said "Didn't you see my letter in the local paper?" and he obviously had read it because he immediately asked "Was that you?!" He started to tell me how much money they spent on trying to fix the problem, and I interrupted by saying "it's not money that's needed - you should be sending a team of people out EVERY DAY to clean up every bit of graffitti as soon as it is done. Other councils do it, why can't you?"

Then I really laid into him about the council's blatant disregard for the wellbeing of our senior citizens and he tried to cover his tracks with all sorts of excuses about how they had advice from specialist consultants to change care providers, and as you can imagine, I saw red. I said "But you didn't ask the clients or the carers. They are the experts, not some consultant". Then he admitted that the council knows now that it made the wrong decision and they are severely embarrassed. I said "I haven't seen a public apology anywhere!"


Well he went away with a flea in his ear, I can tell you. Ken had been out somewhere and came up the driveway just as the councillor was walking off, and he said "Who was that bloke with the sour look on his face?" When I told him, he said "Good on you - I wish I'd been here. I would have put my two bob's worth in!".

Anyway, that was it. Nothing will come of it, but it gave me such satisfaction to say what I thought!!!!