In last week’s Echo (page 5), the three current candidates for mayor were given the chance to present their CV. Dear reader, would you hire them?
One appeared to dance to the puppet master in Sussex Street.
Another offered to keep on doing what had been done in the past… lurch from pothole to pothole?
The third sounded as if the statement had been written with the aid of a couple of bottles of claret! All fluff, no attempt at costings, as though the person was afraid of numbers.
On the front page, we were presented with the real future – the dilemma of a huge increase in population, but not a whisper from those who are offering themselves as leaders on addressing that. Also, not one candidate for mayor offered one iota of vision for the future of Byron.
The article in The Echo reminded me of my school report card – could do better! Byron Shire deserves a lot better than what is being offered.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
