Dear Mr Tapp,

It was relevant to me to find out a little
bit more about you, and what you represented,
because you are not just another poster on
this Forum, but someone with political ambitions.
At present nothing is known about you. So I
thought it was a fair question to ask. It was
not meant as an attack - which is the way you took
it, unfortunately.

However you asked me to answer your question
about what I expected from my political Representative?
Even though you chose not to reply to my question, I shall
attempt to reply to yours.

I would expect any Representative to meet the needs
and desires of his/her community, and residents.

I would rather have a Representative that would aim
high and fail, than do nothing, and succeed.

I would vote for a
Representative who would be focused on policies, vision, and
action, on delivering major goals for the good of the
community and its people.

They would include things like,
lobbying for
and receiving, massive State and Federal funding.
Setting in motion significant capital initiatives,
like creating infrastructure to meet the needs of a
growing community.
Investing in hospitals, schools,
transport, roads, libraries, aged-care facilities, a large
range of recreation infrastructure needs, and so on.
Fostering a strong and resilient shared vision of our
future, forging policies from sincere but frank conversations
with residents.

All in all, a Representative who would focus
their policies, vision, and action, on what is good, over
what feels good, so that the Community can look to the
future with confidence.

Foxy, politicians are not our representatives and they never listen to us anyway, so whatever we do here is just a hypothetical-theoretical pastime.

But just for the record, SUPPOSE they listened, I would have asked them quite the opposite of what you did. I would have asked them to get off our back, to do less, not more, to save us from their visions, which they should keep to themselves and interfere only in those few cases where it is absolutely necessary.

It is OUR life that they play with, perhaps the only one we will ever get.

Dear Yuyutsu,

They get paid quite considerably more than
I suspect either you or I, and therefore
I believe that they should be held accountable.
I want decent schools, libraries, hospitals,
roads, transport, et cetera, in the community in which I
live. And I feel that our elected Representatives
owe it to us to work towards trying to meet the
needs and desires of their communities and residents.
That is afterall why we elected them in the first
place.

Dickybird please think about what advice you ask for and from who.
Even in the best of times letters to ministers take much more than a week to answer.
Mid election? your box will soon be full of stuff that makes no commitment on you subject.
No one will get dirty hands on issues that may bloom into trouble.
Get out and get signatures on petitions, thousands of them.
Ask media to look at them and report as you hand them in.
Steward you got the donkey vote last time, number one on the slip.
Your chances are the same as me riding my old bike around Australia, it has no wheels and I have no intention of trying.
Sorry TBC its Combett even you would like him I think did well in the workchoices fight.
A good deal of TAPPS anti union Labor stuff is aimed at me.
We have history another poster found out a bit too much about me and miss used it not tapp but.
No way around this Stewart your letters ramble make little or no points and have been unwelcome for years.
By the way tapp once had a web page earlier posts had a link however unable to get enough members some one else registered the name so the web page may not be around.
Worth a read seems tapp only likes independents.
Who gets your preferences tapp?

foxy good answer

belly
who gets my preference,
oh hang on i do not dictate who to vote for.
I had not realised that you read greg combets mail as he is the federal member.
does he pay you a wage belly or do you just read the mail from the people of charlton.

As i said to this gentleman the other day when he asked who i prerence, I said, and quote
That is your choice
not mine,not a party's
but your's and your's alone.
And that made his day, as i was not telling him how to vote,who to vote for.
He and his family have made a choice.

Donkey vote
well belly as i have said before, you can stick the donkey vote where it fits, as you seem disapointed that you lost a couple of dollars.
I dont want the donkey vote, and again belly just in case you didnt get it, as like before but you do enjoy bring it up.
We could also talk about family values belly and the affair combet was having behind his wife and childrens back.
Or we could talk about the heiner affair and the cover up of child sexual abuse, and child physical abuse.

But no belly combet might just need the donkey this time.
I believe by comments of many people that there could be a shortage of eggs in charlton,yes belly just for you mate.

Dear Foxy,

Thank you - your wishes are valid, even if they are different than mine.

How much politicians are being paid is irrelevant here because it is not you or I who hired them: we had no say in the matter. If it was up to me, I would have paid them this and more, for staying home.

"That is afterall why we elected them in the first place"

Perhaps that was your reason. I just elected this or that politician because otherwise, another politician would have been be elected that in my best estimate was liable to do even more harm.