@The ALP strongly opposed the vote for Lorraine Wreford as Mayor of Casey.

@Brookland Greens case will cost Labor at least the seat of Cranbourne which will elect Geoff Ablett and dump the ghost of Cranbourne, the incompetent Jude Perera. Judith Grayley could also take a tumble after a disappointing first term as MLA for NWS and the Brooklands Green issue.

@Lorraine Wreford is tipped to win the seat of Mordialloc if she is pre-selected by the Liberals. She was born in Sandringham and grew up in Baumaris. Labor does not want Wreford pre-selected for Mordialloc.

@The source of the internal Liberal information pasted on this blog- is it the office of the local Federal MP, who is a mate of one of Wreford’s rivals for pre-selection . Back to work , boys.

Wreford has a strong chance of becoming an MP . Is she egotistical? Probably…

Regardless of who the candidates are, Labor MPs will be under considerable pressure following the Altona By Election result.

This may precipitate a few more ALP early retirements …

Doubt is the silvertale hypocrits at Liberal HQ can swing as much as Les backed by the ETU.

Labor will be hit by only a 10% swing and Nick Reece, Dan O’Brien and John Brumby and the rest of state ALP parasites can go back into their normal comma…as ‘a ten percent swing is to be expected’ …..wake me up when something interesting happens.

Lazy Ted is no worry…………..

We do not live in Neverland!

The Point Cook Residents Association is a great idea. But, Have you done anything since 2006. Nothing on the website has been updated.

The absence of the PCRA for the past four years is pretty telling. It shows about as much commitment as Mark Rose.

Lori,

“…every one has the same chace”

Common who do not live in Neverland!

Liz’s motivation for running is simple: you’ll find that here http://lizmumby.ozecommunity.com.au/about-liz.html and here http://lizmumby.ozecommunity.com.au/component/content/article/25-the-project/87-your-vote-counts.html
No hidden agenda, no political party membership, no BS, just the words of a women passionate enough about her community to stand up and do something about the local problems.

As for the people of Wyndham having to wait, that is the very point. Why should they? The state government (who ever they are)rakes in more than $100 millions annually from the construction of almost 4000 Wyndham homes new homes, via developer contributions, taxes, fes & charges, stamp duty, and ultimately the GST on the construction costs.

We are simply asking for a fair shake in the allocation of revenues in actually setting up the necessary services to benefit those living in new areas.

Is that such an unfair question?

You make some very strong claims behind a veil of anonymity.

I re-iterate. You know who i am. Who are you?

Train station – promised to be delivered in 2008, but now not due for completion until the END of 2013
Dunnings rd,- yes but only at Palmers Rd & Pt Cook rd intersections, and extra money will have to be spent on restitution when they are properly widened.
Central Ave – nothing.
The list goes on.
For soho/sme business – nothing.
Broadband – nothing
Support for existing home owners not having multi unit block built next to them on what were splanned as sngle residence dwellings – nothing
Stopping the curse of poker machines- nothing
the library opens after the population hits 10k.
Sporting ground 2 + 2 just opening that have no permanent change facilities.
The soccer ground stage one in 4 yeras, plus 2 more for final completion, which hasw been talked about for 7 years now.
$186 million behind (as at last may) in community infrastructure spending by Wyndham.
an auditor generals report in december which shows that the local council hasn’t collected all the developer contributions, and shows significant and substantial difficulties in its accounting system to follow through on these.
And to top it off, not a single word by the labour government as to a) how it might step in and force some accountability and/or
b) offer assistance with getting this community infrastructure program back on track.

Now let me ask the question, who is best placed to advocate for things that impact on the everday lives of residents (such as your kid not being able to play netball or football locally), some-one who’s never before crossed over the bridge to this side of town before, or some-one who is directly impacted by the decisions of state & local governments.

Do you reckon we stand back and hope that it will all be here soon?
Like it here? I love it.
Do I expect more than our share? no. Just the same as what is considered normal on the other side of the bridge.

Liz obtained a higher first preference vote than one of the Liberal councillors (Glenn Goodfellow):-

ISAH, Mohammed 1721
McALINEY, Kim 5929
GOETZ, Nathan 1170
GOODFELLOW, Glenn 1803
FAIRCLOUGH, Bob 4513
MUMBY, Liz 2016
SINGH, Arbinder 310
BARRETT, Leigh J. 2116

(from ww.vec.vic.gov.au/wyndhamresult2008.html)

This shows she was a strong candidate and was playing to win. A quota is just under 5000 votes, so Glenn Goodfellow received over 3000 preferences to get him across the line. You can hardly say she had the Liberal elected!

VOTE LOCAL, VOTE LIZ!!!!!

http://lizmumby.ozecommunity.com.au/

We have no allegiance to any party, nor are we members of any party. Liz is as working class as i am. She started her career as a nurse (isn’t that a silver spoon occupation?).

But seriously, having lived here since the place was all just paddocks, and working hard for change in the local community, not much is being done in an area that the government considers ’safe’?

Definition of insanity – continuing doing what you have been doing, whilst expecting a different result.

So we have one objective – highlighting to our local community that every single one of their votes counts towards what goes on in their community.

And if you have actually spoken to me, post your real name by reply and we’ll have an open discussion.
Dan Mumby.
Campaign co-ordinator for Liz Mumby

We have no allegiance to any party, nor are we members of any party. Liz is as working class as i am. She started her career as a nurse (isn’t that a silver spoon occupation?).

But honestly, having lived here since the place was all just paddocks, and working hard for the change, how much more was going to be done in area that the government considers ’safe’?

Definition of insanity – continuing doing what you have been doing, whilst expecting a different result.

So we have one objective – highlighting to our local community that every single one of their votes counts towards what goes on in their community.

And if you have actually spoken to me, post your real name by reply and we’ll have an open discussion.
Dan Mumby
Campaign co-ordinator for Liz Mumby

A 5% swing against ALP in a by election will still be shrugged off by the new born to rule mob in alp head office and spring street.

The bone heads will only wake up when they lose a safe seat.

But that is not likely despite the selective release of polling and the scare mongering by Nick Reece et al.

As long as they keep their nose clean and let Mr Brumby bury himself through things like his support of incompetent and bumbling Ministers like Madden and Cameron and the now ‘sadly’ departed Ms Kosky.

Deputy Premier Hulls is certainly no Mr ‘pretty boy’ Thwaites. He doesn’t smile at anything and has panache to appoint lefties to the judiciary, upsetting many in our community!

Mr Brumby has never won an election in his own right and certainly is no Mr ‘nice guy’ Bracks. So there is hope for a close race this year just on the likability scale!

There is one sleeping problem in the South-Eastern suburbs that may come up and bite the Liberal Party on the bum though. Lorraine Wreford the newly appointed Mayor of the City of Casey has put her hand up to be pre-selected for the State seat of Mordialloc, many miles out of her electorate (she lives in Berwick).

There has already been agitation with the locals as to why Ms Wreford is deserting the City of Casey only 5 minutes after being appointed their Mayor and heading off to the City of Kingston (where Mordialloc is) in her desperate ambition to be pre-selected. Even on Australia Day Mayor Wreford was at the City of Kingston breakfast instead of attending her Mayoral duties in the City of Casey!

I understand from reliable sources Ms Wreford was also trying late last year for the Gembrook State pre-selection (within the City of Casey) but had no local Liberal support what-so-ever, so didn’t even enter the race.

An ex-Liberal Member of Parliament with the initials of Geoff Leigh has now taken Ms Wreford under ‘his wing’ and is pushing her barrow in Mordialloc. Apparently she is not the sharpest tool in the shed (a bit like Mr Leigh). Ms Wreford is also very proud of her generous ‘body modifications’ driving some of the older gents in the Liberal Party to distraction. I guess Geoff likes a bit of mature eye candy and his current ‘consultancy work’ which entails working with some of his Labor mates to help ram property developments through local governments has made his interest in Ms Wreford understandable.

But the questions that the Liberal Party needs to bear in mind are:-

Q1 Why has Ms Wreford been given the Mayoralship of Casey in a Labor dominated council in a year where there is to be a Federal and State election? Labor dominated councils are desperate to have Labor Mayors in election years, ensuring they can ‘control’ information and community invites to the local Liberal Members of Parliament and Liberal candidates. Ms Wreford has tried previously to be the Mayor of Casey without success. Why has the local Labor Party endorsed her appointment this year when there will be several tightly contested Federal and State seats in the area?

A1 Perhaps the pending Supreme Court case regarding the highly publicised Cranbourne Brookland Greens housing estate gas leak where more than 560 residents have launched a class action lawsuit through Slater & Gordon against the City of Casey could be the key? This will be a highly publicised event in 2010 (as it was when this terrible thing happened with people having to leave their homes for fear of explosion in 2008). If the City of Casey wins this case they will have fought against their own citizens, and won. They (read Liberal Mayor Wreford) will be ridiculed in the press up hill and down dale. On the other hand if the City of Casey loses the case they will have imposed a bill of millions upon millions of dollars on the ratepayers of Casey for many years. Rates will go through the roof. They (read Liberal Mayor Wreford) will be ridiculed in the press up hill and down dale. We can see the headlines now.
There is only lose-lose in this issue with the Liberal brand burnt under the auspices of Liberal Mayor Wreford being in charge. She will take all the political thumping on this sensitive community issue. If this is so obvious to us why is it not obvious to Ms Wreford?

Q2 Why has Ms Wreford never attended a La Trobe or Gembrook Electorate Conference meeting until the 2009 Gembrook AGM? Why has she never won an executive position in her Berwick Branch when the election needs to go to an internal ballot?

A2 Ms Wreford has no interest in helping the Liberal Party in any way other than having them get her a job in Parliament. Local Berwick Liberals understand Ms Wreford very well and would not support her in any internal contested position. In the 2009 election for State Council Delegates, through the Gembrook AGM, 4 positions were available with 5 members applying to be Delegates. In the ballot Ms Wreford finished last behind two 80 year old ladies!

Q3 In the 2008 local government elections why did Ms Wreford exchange preferences with Labor endorsed candidates? The Liberal candidate Chris Andrews just missed out on the seat to the slippery ALP man Sam Azis due to this despicable act!

A3 It is obvious that Ms Wreford has only one goal. To get Ms Wreford whatever she wants and bugger the Liberal Party.

Q4 Why did Ms Wreford in 2006 bag the Liberal candidate for Cranbourne – Luke Martin in the local press?

A4 In 2006 Ms Wreford ran unsuccessfully for both the South East Metro Upper House (against Inga Peulich and Gordon Rich Phillips) and the lower house seat of Cranbourne, stating to many that she needed some income because of her financial troubles. The fact she did not get any local support for both these seats caused her to spit venom back at the Liberal people who were successful.

Q5 Ms Wreford always talks about being a ‘single mother’ of 4 children. This is true. But she forgets to let people know that her children do not live with her but their father.

A5 This speaks volumes of Ms Wreford desperation to have image over substance.

Q6 Why is Ms Wreford trying for pre-selection in the State seat of Mordialloc, many miles from where she lives?

A6 Apart from Mr Leigh’s pre-occupation with Mr Leigh’s own interests (btw – never trust anyone who speaks out of the corner of their mouth) the chances of Delegates at the Mordialloc pre-selection (miles away from Berwick) not understanding Ms Wreford’s Raison d’être (that’s French for “reason for being” Geoff) is to her advantage.

All in all the Liberal Party needs to be very careful about Ms Wreford’s ability to understand the ‘political tea leaves’ and certainly her real intentions and abilities to be a member of the Liberal Parliamentary party needs to be questioned. The political explosive nature of her being set up to take the heat on the pending Supreme Court case regarding the Cranbourne gas leak while running off to seek endorsement in a seat miles from her own backyard will surely tarnish the Liberal brand in what will be a very important year for the Party.

Lets hope the Liberals don’t repeat another ‘Robert Dean’ type mistake this year. The stakes are too high. In fact Dr Dean pretended he lived up in Berwick when nominating for Gembrook in 2002 didn’t he? I wonder where he was staying when in Berwick?