Looking down the barrel of the camera, Harriman in the last Council meeting signaled that the fourth tier of government was now in session. He and his fellow members jiggled with joy. They could see that they were close to pulling off the graft of all time. Pay to get access to the five Gippsland People's Council councillors and guarantee that your application will pass through the chamber. Or don't pay, and take your chances.
Watch the video of the last council meeting and you'll see that the new Gippsland People's Council councillors are heavily scripted and rehearsed (although some clearly not rehearsed enough). Pay particular notice to:
Harriman has no time for minding the newbies when there is money to be made. That job has been passed down to Damian Andrews, leader of the rebranded Gippsland Peoples Council, now called Latrobe City Council Watch. Funded by Elkington and Lavin, Andrews has some vague idea of dodging the law. With a string of failed companies wound up by the ATO and ASIC in the courts, Andrews has plenty of experience to draw from.
You may recall a few weeks back, we made the prediction that the Gippsland People's Council (rebranded as Latrobe City Council Watch) were looking to establish a fourth tier of government, by installing their own members into councillor positions. The last step of the plan is to install Andrews as CEO of Latrobe City Council. Firing a warning shot, Guss Lambden, Gippsland People's Council associate and a failed election candidate, called for Andrews to be CEO in an opinion piece published in the Latrobe Valley Express. The Gippsland Peoples Council again look for mainstream channels to normalise their propaganda. More on Andrew's brushes with the law in a future post.
Every cloud does have a silver lining. We have stronger local government legislation to catch illegal activity earlier. We have more people than ever joining Valley Oversights as citizen investigators. Ferguson was also ousted by a community that had had enough of "poor me" and broken promises - most notable being her promise "not to stand". There is a deep sentiment in our community that we have all had enough of graft and corruption.