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这个人争议很大啊!
So what is Mayor Christou’s background? In 2017 Steve Christou was elected as a Labor Councillor for Granville Ward of Cumberland Council. In September 2020 he put himself forward as a candidate for the Mayor’s job but none of his Labor colleagues thought he was worth supporting. Christou got upset about this and joined Our Local Community as part of a deal with the Liberals to then support him for Mayor. Interesting, all three Our Local Community Councillors are Ex – Labor and Ex – Liberal and if you think there differences are on principles you would be wrong. All three jumped ship because they couldn’t realise their personal ambitions in the major parties of Labor and Liberal. Their party colleagues didn’t think they were worth supporting. In fact Mayor Christou before becoming a Councillor worked in Laurie Ferguson’s electoral office.
Since coming to the office of Mayor, Steve Christou has opened an electoral style office with ratepayers money on Merrylands Road coincidentally right opposite the State Members Electoral Office. Steve Christou is also using a full page in Friday’s Telegraph Newspaper to promote himself every week, not cheap and again at the ratepayers expense and all of this at a time when Cumberland Council has spiraled into debt mainly due to Amalgamation. Council Staff tell us that the Mayor has hijacked Councils Media Team for his own personal use and this comes at a time when residents in Regents Park and South Granville Wards have had Council services reduced and will be expected to pay an increase of $400 per year over five years on our rates. On top of this Mayor Christou’s alliance Liberals and Our Local Community Councillors voted in December to sell off Council’s Child Care Centres and Seniors Units, another blow to low income earners in our Community. Do you think there was any discussion at Council to curb the Mayor’s extravagant expenditure? You would be correct if you guessed No.
You probably wont be surprised to learn that the Mayor is also a hypocrite while he rails against the building of the mosque in Factory St, Granville he and his alliance have been more than happy to support dramatic increases in the heights of buildings in our Lidcombe and Auburn Town centres and this comes after horror findings of shonky apartment blocks in Auburn. In his own Ward of Granville he hesitated about voting down a Development Proposal in Manchester Road Auburn that would open a bridge through to Seventh Ave Granville and flood local residential streets with thousands of cars daily. It was only after he was outed by the Battler that he decided to vote against the proposal. Yes, Steve Christou has had his token campaign against a proposed development on the corner of the Great Western Highway and Woodville Road but more important watch how two of his Pro Development Alliance Councillors Ned Attie and Eddie Sarkis vote on the Greater Sydney Planning Panel. We think that Liberal Councillor Tom Zreika, a former President of the Lebanese Muslim Association would be feeling very uncomfortable with the Mayor’s litany of anti Muslim comments. Its worth pointing out that Tom Zreika’s vote helps to keep Steve Christou in the Mayor’s job and we would encourage concerned residents to contact Tom and make their views understood. |
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