Email-gate, Grow Dubbo-gate, 6 to 5-gate, Gordon Estate-gate, Caravan park-gate, 5 star hotel-gate, pedestrian crossing-gate, these are just a small few of the many gates, sorry, scandals that have dogged the Dubbo City Council since I started to write my column.

I do have one question though.

Why do we always call a scandal a something-gate? Because the building was The Watergate Apartments - Not Watergate-gate.

Guess I’ll never know, but if you do know send me a blog or email please.

Anyway, I will declare a pecuniary interest in my column today.

I have socialised with some councillors, brought products from others, lived near family of others, and have met almost all of them, not all, but most, and have definitely bagged the crap out of each and everyone, whether deservedly or not.

So my interest is I know them, but more than that I want to know what makes them do what they do.

I’ve been doing a bit of research this week.

It’s something that some of our bloggers want me to do more of.

If I didn’t have a family, a job, sit on two boards, and coach and ref footy I might have more time to do so.

However I tried to find out the background about the latest stoush between the Mayor and the Opposition Leader in Council.

Sorry, but that’s the way they act.

It goes back to January 22 of this year.

That’s this stoush, but are they all one big long s*** fight?

It still seems to stem from the mayoral elections in September last year.

Talk about a long time to carry a grudge, but does this mean it will be all over this September, or will it go on until the next election because of 6 to 5-gate?

So why do they continue to do it? Why put up with the crap from each other and us?

The bloggers over the past couple of weeks have been harsh and very scathing in their comments over the very public fracas between Councillors’ Matthews, Shields and Reynolds, with a touch of Bartley thrown in on the side. The other seven have kept their political heads below the parapet and not raised them up to be blown off.

Keith who, Mathew what, Alan where?

I do think that things might be different if Councillor Shields had 6-5 his way, Grow Dubbo wouldn’t be an issue, neither would be confidential emails, but he didn’t.

As I have said before, EEL’s you all need to think about why you are here and whether Councillor Reynolds is right in her assessment of bringing in the Local Government Minister.

It really is a simple thing; you either all work together for the good of the people that elected you, or you all bugger off now.

What do you think, ‘cause that’s what I reckon.

Saulie