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For a politician who has one time or another sought political power under the auspices of both Liberal and Labor, and failed she might have been too ideologically disorientated to have another go. Not so Cr Duncan-Strelec. That's why she stood as an Independent. Never let a bit of ideology get in the way of blind ambition.

Cr Duncan-Strelec says on the front page of the Albury Wodonga News Weekly that she doesn't really care if it escalates the conflict (her dispute with Graeme Richardson) it's got to be seen to its logical conclusion. I've got the guts and integrity to stand up to bullies and mobs she says almost overwhelmed with triumphalism declaring in the same breath with a more modest hint of euphoric introspection. If you want be a leader you have to be strong.

So there we have it. Cr Duncan-Strelec Albury's Eva Peron, a populist guided by an undiminished integrity a leader who regardless of the cost will forever uphold all that is decent in Australian society. She also takes time to damn minority interest groups and (sic) those that take advantage of our democratic processes to intimidate ordinary, honest, hardworking Australians into accepting or tolerating their views, whether we agree with them or not. Cr Duncan-Strelec also takes the opportunity take a stick to political correctness. She has also launched an email address amandafightsback@gmail.com where like minded supporters can give give succour to her defence of freedom of speech and democracy (which) is the base on which our proud country is based.

The trouble is Cr Duncan'Strelec doesn't care a rat's about democracy. She simply isn't the democratic type. To Cr Duncan-Strelec democracy is an inconvenience especially at a local government level. That's why democracy can't be left to the hoi-pollie. It's not on. While free speech, integrity and the like are given a bit of lip service it is only when free speech and integrity comply with her view of the world could it be seen as free speech and integrity. If it doesn't you become part of the mob - irrational types that conspire at every turn. Her recent letter in the Albury Wodonga News Weekly was another example of how the Cr Duncan-Strelec's petulant world of delusion and self justification are the same side of the coin and how connectivity that keeps it in place.

Cr Duncan-Strelec paid for the ad no doubt, but was it her money. Why did she choose the Albury Wodonga News Weekly.
That's where connectivity comes in. Look how Cr Duncan-Strelec championed the new Lavington library. This white elephant that will cost millions to Albury/Lavington ratepayers. How much it will eventually cost is anyones guess. The whole cost benefit analysis of the project undertaken by Albury City Council was a sham. Cr Duncan-Strelec let it be known that those who opposed the project were driven by political motives and irrational reasons.

Where's the connectivity you well may ask.

Is it one of her close friends who are fast coming to her view that sic that political correctness is taking over our country. Did these friends pass the hat around to pay for the ad, and why only in the Albury Wodonga News Weekly. Any connectivity there? Of course there is. In the holding company of Albury Wodonga News Weekly publisher Albury Wodonga Community Media Pty Ltd, the Zauner Family Holdings Pty Ltd holds 50,000 A class ordinary shares, 15,000 H class ordinary shares, and 152,952 Ordinary shares in the newspaper. We're not sure if this substantial parcel of share entitles Zauner Family Holdings Pty Ltd to voting rights and Borderline is not suggesting impropriety on either Zauner Family Holdings Pty Ltd or Cr Duncan-Strelec part. It's all about connectivity, and how it is used to achieve outcomes in Albury that may not be in the city's best interest.