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25 August, 2007 21:15 The Greens took over the running of Moonee Valley Council in December last year, and as anyone familiar with the Greens can tell you, there is only one outcome when they take charge - a shambles. Greens Watch has received a number of emails from residents complaining that their council has turned into a circus ever since the Greens Ben Opie donned the Mayoral Robes. Poor old Ben. It's so much easier to sit in the backrow and criticise the actions of others (the Greens' speciality and how most of their voters live their lives), the reality of actual leadership is a sobering experience. IncompetenceMayor Opie, who is likely to be a one term councillor once the Moonee Valley voters get a chance to vent their rage, has reigned over the following chaos whilst he's been a councillor:
A survey of 800 Moonee Valley residents found only 6.7 per cent of respondents were satisfied with the council. Ben Opie responds: Mayor Ben Opie said the results validated council's commitment to strengthening and engaging the community. He must've been smoking some more of the Greens favourite substance while reading those figures. Moonee Greens Desalination FiascoThe Greens are opposed to Dams, Bores and Desalination plants. How then do we get water, you may ask ? Good question. The answer is you can't. Being opposed to everything is a policy that has served the Greens well over the years, however when ratepayers are demanding water and you are responsible for fixing it, Greens policy goes out the window. Mayor Ben Opie is supporting a big push for Moonee Valley to have its own Desalination Plant, however there is a slight flaw in his plan.  Moonee Valley is landlocked. That's not a worry for our Greens optimist, they'll use the Maribyrnong River instead. A desalination fact finding mission to Perth was planned, however the council turned on him and voted the idea down. Even his follow Greens incompetent Rose Iser who said: She said the Greens were concerned with the ``energy consumption'' of desalination plants. The losers in this fiasco are the ratepayers of Moonee Valley who are running out of water while the Greens waste 450,000 litres watering footpath trees. Silencing DissentInside every Greens member lurks a little authoritarian dictator, along the lines of their beloved hero Hugo Chavez, just waiting to be unleashed. Greens Mayor Opie doesn't like disagreement, so responds in typical Greens-style: Cr Opie shut down the meeting after several attempts to stop Cr Giuliano from interrupting, causing members in the gallery to voice their concerns. Even more disgusting, the Greens Mayor behaved so dictatorially at a different meeting that even a fellow Greens councillor expressed concern: Cr Giuliano was also prevented from speaking for an extra two minutes.
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